Janne Seurujärvi (1975–present), politician. The first Sámi member of Parliament of Finland. Irja Seurujärvi-Kari (born 1947), politician and academic; member of the Finnish Sámi Parliament. Laila Susanne Vars (1976–present), former vice-president of the Sámi Parliament in Norway, first Sámi woman with a PhD in law, member of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), rector of the Sámi University of Applied Sciences. Visual arts Simen Johan (1973–present), Visual Artist. Born in Kirkenes, Norway, lives and works in New York City , artist. Joni Mitchell (1943–present) musician and painter. Unconfirmed. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001), musician, poet and artist. Sports Ailo Gaup (1980–present), a motorcross sportsman who invented the "underflip". John Halvorsen, athletics. Leo Komarov (1987–present), Finnish ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Born in Estonia and raised in Finland and is of Russian-Sámi parentage. Anja Pärson (1981–present) and Jens Byggmark (1985–present), alpine skiers. Morten Gamst Pedersen (1981–present), Football player (former player for Blackburn Rovers). Jon Rønningen, wrestler. Olympic gold medalist. Lars Rønningen, wrestler. Börje Salming (1951–2022), legendary NHL defenseman, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, voted to the IIHF all-century team. Other , the single noble family of Sámi descent (Swedish nobility). , famous criminal. See also Environmental racism in Europe Hamburg culture List of indigenous peoples Reindeer in Russia Sampo Lappelill Sámi culture Fourth World Inari Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East Knud Leem Sámi cuisine Sápmi Park – Located Karasjok, Norway, Sápmi Park and visitor center presents the Sámi culture and its history through exhibits and a special effect theater presentation, entitled "The Magic Theater" designed originally by award-winning experience designer Bob Rogers (designer) and the design team BRC Imagination Arts. Ume Sámi language Sámi films The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura) (1952), a Finnish horror drama film set in Finnish Lapland, among the Sámi people. Pathfinder (Ofelaš) (1988), film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film; filmed in Norway featuring Sámi actors speaking in Sámi Give Us Our Skeletons, a 1999 documentary about the scientific racism and racial classification movement carried out on the Sámi The Cuckoo (Kukushka) (2002), film set during World War II with a Sámi woman as one of the main characters Last Yoik in Saami Forests? (2007), made for the United Nations, a documentary about land rights disputes in Finnish Lapland The Sami (Saamelainen) (2007), a Mushkeg Media documentary about the state of