Yes, the numbers range from 10 to 30,000. It was horrible, and it is still is horrible. They keep interfering with their traditional herding and lifestyle. Between imaginary boarders and logging and mining and now climate change, it is a constant struggle for their cultural survival.

There are plenty.

Börje Salming is in the NHL Hall Of Fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming

Wikipedia suggests around 100,000.

Which doesn't sound like a lot, and maybe it isn't, but two useful comparisons are the 300,000 Icelanders and the 50,000 Faroese. If they're dying out that isn't clear from the numbers.

The Sami are assimilating rapidly though. They have been intermarrying for generations (previously often by force, these days quite voluntarily), and unlike Icelandic and Faroese, the Sami languages are dying fast since they've been replaced by Norwegian, Swedish etc.

Sure, whatever.

I don't care about this conversation anymore because I was downvoted by the latest and greatest Europeans with sticks up their asses. Why? We'll never know.

Participating in this site is not worth it sometimes.

I didn't downvote you, but comparing the Sami, thinly stretched across remote regions in four countries, to the independent island nation of Iceland is, uhh, naive.