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6.10 - The Sami National Day (February 6)

6.10 - The Sami National Day (February 6)

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The Sami, the indigenous people of Norway, has fought and is in
some way still fighting to preserve their culture, and this has
led to the creation of a Sami national day. February 6 is the
national day for all Sami in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the
Kola-peninsula in Russia. It commemorates the first national
meeting for the Sami in Norway in Trondheim in 1917, the first
time a wide coalition of Sami in Norway gathered to discuss
common Sami issues. This meeting was important in creating a
common Sami movement. February 6 officially became the Sami
national day in 1992.

Today, the national day of the Sami is first and foremost
celebrated in Sápmi, the northern parts of the Scandinavian
peninsula. It is celebrated by raising the Sami flag and serving
traditional Sami food like bidos. In Manndalen in Northern Troms,
far north in Norway, where I live, there was a Sami exhibition,
Sami theatre, and Sami food at the Centre for northern peoples, a
Sami cultural centre.

In the rest of Norway, February 6 is marked by raising the
Norwegian flag in all public spaces. This is to congratulate the
Sami people on their national day. However, the day is hardly
celebrated in the rest of Norway, and February 6 is not a
holiday. That means that everyone has to go to work or school, in
contrast to May 17.