Today Google in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway celebrates Sami National Day, commemorating the meeting of the first Sami transnational congress in 1917. The Sami people are an indigenous ethnic group in the northern Scandinavian peninsula whose numbers range between 80 and 130 Thousand. The Sami are best known for their cultural practice of reindeer herding, a practice which only they can legally do in the Nordic countries, but have traditionally live a wilderness lifestyle of fishing and trapping. The Sami Language is part of Uralic languages, which span parts of Russia, Scandinavia, and Hungary. Sami National Day began being celebrated in 1993, after it was passed by the 15th Sami Conference. During this day the Sami Flag is flown though out the region, including in many national offices, while the Sami People unite and sing the Song of the Sami People. This Google Logo shows a traditional hat called a Four Winds hat, along with other cultural textiles, which provide a very pretty image.
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