Galleries such as Smi Diddaguovdd (Sami Center for Contemporary Art)[111] are being established. Their religion was shamanistic: they imagined supernatural powers in the rocks and mountains. Other identity markers are kinship (which can be said to, at some level or other, be of high importance for all Smi), the geographical region of Spmi where their family came from, and/or protecting or preserving certain aspects of Smi culture.[131]. Sweden recognised the existence of the "Smi nation" in 1989, but the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, C169 has not been adopted. [118] During the years of forced assimilation, the areas in which reindeer herding was an important livelihood were among the few where the Smi culture and language survived. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. [170] Many contemporary practitioners are compared to practitioners of neo-paganism, as a number of neopagan religions likewise combine elements of ancient pagan religions with more recent revisions or innovations, but others feel they are attempting to revive or reconstruct indigenous Smi religions as found in historic, folkloric sources and oral traditions. 2) No-one is exactly sure how many Smi people there are, but estimates range from between 50,000 - 200,000! [45] Depending on the parish, 60 to 76 percent of northern Norwegian farms were abandoned following the plague,[46] while land-rents, another measure of population, dropped to 928% of pre-plague levels. Many Smi do not speak any of the Smi languages any more due to historical assimilation policies, so the number of Smi living in each area is much higher.[142]. [170] Out of the estimated thousands of drums before this period, only about 70 are known to remain today, scattered in museums around Europe. Outsiders may find it hard to distinguish the physical traits of Sami from the physical traits of other Norwegians. The same gene, named EDAR (short for Ectodysplasin receptor EDARV370A), it turns out, also confers more sweat glands and distinctive teeth and is found in the majority of East Asian people. Residents of remote communities have neither the power nor the resources to demand enforcement of their rights. The winning design was submitted by the artist Astrid Bhl from Skibotn, Norway.[160]. On their journey, they used the ancient river routes of northern Russia. There are three Smi languages spoken in Finland: North Smi, Skolt Smi and Inari Smi. In addition, there are several Smi languages and additional dialects, and there are several areas in Sapmi where few of the Smi speak their native language due to the forced cultural assimilation, but still consider themselves Smi. His work resulted in Fragments of Lappish Mythology, since by his own admission, they contained only a small percentage of what had existed.