Thanks, Phunny, I appreciate that! Yup, been there since the glaciers retreated from the Ice Age. The germanic norse peoples colonized Saepmie (saami homeland area of Scandinavia) from the south, there was generally peaceful coexistence prior to the Black Plague when saami were invited to occupy empty farms in what had been Denmark-Norway and when Sweden and Russia decided to expand control into the arctic. There's quite a lot of saami in sagas as boat builders and otherwise. Saami still get a hard time but our culture and languages are still here and making a resurgence.
This is a decent link with some info about saami, one note tho, only about 10% engage in reindeer husbandry anymore. My family is from southern saami farmers in Hedmark, Norway-Dalarna, Sweden.
https://sweden.se/society/sami-in-sweden/