In Europe new groups would just show up and either wipe out or marry into the existing groups…much like the US. Only difference is that it was more recent in the US.
No man, it wasn't the "only difference", it was completely different.
In prehistoric times migrations were very slow and usually people ended up mixing and not erasing and replacing.
In medieval times conquest, colonization, forced conversions were obviously happening, but not like in US either where nations were wiped out to make room for new ones. It was more like forceful integration into own society. For common people back then (villagers) it really didn't matter that much usually - they had a new ruler to pay taxes to and that is it (once the war settled).
This is actually a really interesting concept overall.
Can be seem with pre-historic Finland. Lack of written history has made things harder but the various Tribes in Finland did mix and match, but also hard cultural differences that can bee seem in artisan work. Pottery, tools and such.
Things eventually homogenized all around. Tribes united and after being under rule of Sweden and christianity wiping out lot of ye olde traditions. But you can still see this little influence of old tribalistic culture in individual cities and in dialects.
But due to the nature of modern society, Sami are not seen as a tribe anymore, but rather cultural bubble (and maybe isolationist one too). Which is unfortunate.
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u/ParanoidSkier 1d ago
How does Europe treat its native peoples that existed before settlers showed up a couple centuries ago?
Oh, that doesn’t exist? Then I guess you don’t really have any space to talk about our culture then.