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...nor do the Sami call themselves "lapp". This term was used by outsiders, (i.e. non-Sami) to describe them. Please fix this or I will remove it.
Dinkytown (
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19:52, 7 January 2010 (UTC)reply
It is a sourced sentence, and I don't think there is a dispute of the origin of the name Lapland from Lapp (Sami). You just seemed not to understand the sentence. --
SM (
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12:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Is this article about Lapland or Sápmi?
"Lapland" traditionally only refers to certain areas in Sápmi - in Sweden and Finland. Finnmark (Norway) and Murmansk (Russia) have recently began marketing themselves as "Lappland" due to the success of tourism to Finland's Lappland. Areas like Troms, Nordland, Trøndelag and Jemtland-Herjedalen, however, have never been referred to as Lappland - though they are part of Sápmi.
Claiming Lapland to be coterminus with Sápmi is an extremely Finnish- or Swedo-centric point of view. The majority of the Sámi live outside these countries, mainly in Norway, and do not at all consider their home areas to be part of "Lapland". It is simply erroneous (see definitions of Lappland vs. Sápmi in the Store Norske Leksikon - the most authoritative Norwegian lexicon) to claim that the two are the same. The article has been rewritten to remove this Finnish/Swedish bias, which expands "Lapland" to include areas that the term traditionally has not covered (in Norway "Finnmork" was used, and in Russia "Dikaya Lop"). Reference is still made, though, to the fact that some do understand Lapland as larger than it is.
Content had been copypasted from the "Sápmi" article, which obviously does not fit this article. Text has been altered to reflect the new subject.
The article was a stub. New categories and data have been imported from other wikipedia articles about the subject Lappmarken/Lappland. Hopefully, someone will continue this work.
Adding a map to this article would be a capital idea. Even better would be a dual map that shows the reader the differences between Lapland and Sápmi.--
Hokeman (
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00:32, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply