The Indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia are everywhere outnumbered by immigrant populations—Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns in Lapland(Sápmi) and Russians and other exogenous ethnic groups in Siberia. It is estimated that, in Siberia, the ratio of immigrants to Indigenous people was reversed from a minority of one to four to a majority of four to one within the period 1926–59. In Lapland the transition of the Sami from being a majority to a minority in their own homeland has taken place over a longer period but is no less marked. On account of the admixture of Indigenous and immigrant peoples and ...(100 of 37874 words)