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![Hypotheses page](saamiimages/silver550header/minionhyp550.gif)
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The ancestors of the Saami occupied the north Swedish coast during prehistoric times.
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These Saami were displaced from the region in the fourteenth century by Swedish settlers, the Church, the State and Hanseatic fishing and mercantilism.
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They moved inland where they were forced into a greater dependency on reindeer and, through State intervention in the 16th century, nomadism.
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These people were the ancestors of the Ume-Saami speaking people.
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![Saami reindeer herders with sleds and reindeer in the snow](saamiimages/reindeer582x382.jpg) |
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