#Just for centuries oppressors used that placename for us complete innocently not meaning anything bad at all?

[honeylemony]

hi i saw ur post about the ethics slur for sami people and i was just wondering, in your opinion, is it okay to keep calling lap(p)land by that name? or should it only be called sapmi? or is there an other name? (ur obviously not required to answer but i couldnt find anything conclusive online)

ive answered this about a million times on the post itself. Yes the placename makes use of the slur. Any name that uses "l*pp" when talking about Sámi land is using the slur. "L*ppland" or the variant with one p just means "place where the dirty disgusting poor L*pps live". They are describing the place by the slur they use for the people.

Our native name for our land is Sápmi. We are Sámi, we live in Sápmi.

Honestly at this point it would even be better to use the country name. If you mean northern Finland say northern Finland. If you mean Norway say Norway. Our land has been colonized by so many other nations that it truly is splintered in that way.

But if you're talking about Sámi issues and Sámi land, our ancestral grounds are Sápmi.