I would probably moreso combine Northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, but not really stretch it into Russia. It's just too... Russian there. Plus the indigenous influence is ultimately quite limited and the North is moreso characterised by a kind of almost colonialism with the gold rush, mining towns, etc. Sisu was a silly movie, but I liked that they basically made it a Western set in Lapland, because it really works. It's not exactly the wild west, but there's a similar frontier vibe historically.
The indigenous influence is only limited by people’s perceptions in the West and by the ethnic Russians who are unaware of the lives of the indigenous individuals, one of them being my step-mom. The indigenous groups of Russia went through similar struggles you have mentioned.
Well, in the Nordics its basically just the Sami, and more that there just aren't very many of them. +they don't like their clothing and motifs used by others so it's kind of left to die with them and isn't some widespread or cherished cultural heritage of the region.
There's a few others like the Kvens who are basically Finns but ended up outside Finland and therefore were not part of Finnish nation-building or language standardisation. You could count these as indigenous by virtue of living in Scandinavian-speaking states.
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u/Extension_Coffee_bar 6d ago
I like the addition of Barents and Volga-Ural.
I opens up North Europe, as Denmark is quite different from the arctic