ngdawa
Joined: 18-Oct-2011
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Posted: 6-Feb-2020, 13:48
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Posted: 6-Feb-2020, 13:48
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I just wanted to wish all Sámis out there a happy and blessed National Day!
It's important to show our support for the indigenous and unrecognised minority groups all over our globe. I wish you all a bright and happy future!
Please keep this thread going by posting National day wishes on the national day's of the indigenous and unrecognised minority groups in your country. Please don't make it political, it's all about being a decent human being. Also, feel free to add coins/banknotes commemorating/picturing the people of the day.
Thanks!
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ellemerob
Joined: 17-Mar-2017
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Posted: 6-Feb-2020, 18:01
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Edited: 6-Feb-2020, 21:37
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Edited: 6-Feb-2020, 21:37
I am embarrassed to say that I had no knowledge of the Sami people. I had to look them up. So now I know something about them.
Happy National Day all the same.
ngdawa
Joined: 18-Oct-2011
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Posted: 6-Feb-2020, 20:14
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Quote: "ellemerob"I am embarrassed that I had no knowledge of the Sami people. I had to look them up. So now I know something about them.
Happy National Day all the same.
No worries! We're all here to learn.
Speaking of learning: "same" is the Swedish word for the Sámi, so your last line was almost a little witty.
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ellemerob
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Posted: 6-Feb-2020, 21:32
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Jarcek
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Posted: 7-Feb-2020, 07:14
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Happy National Day to Sami people. I fell in love with Joik long time ago.
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druzhynets
Joined: 30-Jun-2014
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Posted: 7-Feb-2020, 07:48
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Now I wonder if Sami and Suomi are correlated :)
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CalvinV
Joined: 13-Nov-2019
Posts: 54
Posted: 7-Feb-2020, 09:45
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I never knew they had a national day
Now I do
jokinen
Joined: 10-Feb-2013
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Posted: 8-Feb-2020, 01:57
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Quote: "druzhynets"Now I wonder if Sami and Suomi are correlated :)
The languages are distantly related but these names are not :)
jokinen
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Posted: 8-Feb-2020, 02:06
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I was wrong, the words are possibly related and also linked to the Latvian word Zeme and Russian Zemlya, which both mean land. In Finnish 'suo' means swamp, that's why I thought it was different.
Moneytane
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Posted: 8-Feb-2020, 02:35
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Great timing!
February 6th was Waitangi Day - the National day of New Zealand as our nation was established 180 years ago when a treaty was signed between the English and the Maori (Indigenous New Zealanders of which I am one).
The English version said "We will take your land and make you 2nd class citizens of Queen Victoria"
The Maori version said "We will protect you and you can keep all your land and rights and live like kings"
Guess which one stuck?
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