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HMMM ~ here's one of those "I cursed my fate because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet".

Several of us on this board have spent several years studying all we could of the Sa'ami.

Talk about a minority, one tribe ~ the Skolt ~ are down to 500 people in Finland and less than 5,000 in Russia. The total in Europe is probably 100,000 counting all the tribes.

The Irish are not an endangered species, nor are the Scots, nor the Welsh, nor the Cornish, nor the Bretons, nor the Galicians.

Blam and I have a tribe with 500 people. Just last month the last person who could speak the language of a related tribe passed on ~ that tribe is no more.

Rejoice that you have sufficient members to know your tribes still exist.

Blam would probably like to know that a fellow we know whose done a lot of family genealogical work on folks from Otsego NY also has all the ills that affect the rest of us ~ I may have found several hundred more!