The Sami language belongs to the Finno-Ugric language. When tracing the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples’ migration (including Finnish and Hungarian people) you finally reach a small woodland by the river Ob, near the Ural mountains, on the boarder of Europe and Asia. A place forming the ancient Uralic proto-home, in which the Finno-Ugric speaking people supposedly once lived as one people. There in Western Siberia are also the ”Samoyed” hunting people who speak a similar Finno-Ugric language, work with reindeer husbandry and has a shamanistic belief system that still exist to this day.

The mystery with the Sami origin, however, is that even though the Sami share the Finno-Ugric language they don’t share the same genetic data. Studies confirm that the male Sami genetic code is related to the hunting people of Siberia; however this is not the case for the Sami female, with a genetic code unlike any other people in Europe. Also archaeological findings indicate that the Sami most likely inhabited Europe before the Indo Europeans; a time before the supposed ancient Uralic proto-home. Furthermore blood type studies today show that the Sami unique blood group A2 for inscrutable reasons is only represented amongst the indigenous people of Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean!

Supposed Sami Migration Route