there is a need to place more focus on discrimination health and wellbeing of sami children and adolescents to understand how colonization and sami identity interact to influence health care access and utilization by sami peoples considering the history of assimilation stigmatization and discrimination it seems reasonable to assume that a sami heritage contested throughout a lifespan might have a significance impact on health and wellbeing in old age postcolonial theory provides a framework for understanding how indigenous peoples health is closely related to historical social political and economic factors and forces there seems to be a wide consensus regarding the significance of cultural competence in interactions between health care providers and indigenous patients