Lapplanders Square Dancing In Annual Championships -- Like Square dancers in Canada, Lapplanders derive immense enjoyment from their look folk dances during the recent annual lapplanders' championships.This is not a championship to find the best square dancers but just the way lapplanders in the north of Sweden enjoy their folk dances in national costumes when as every year they congregated recently for championships in ski runs, lasso throwing and other features of lappland life one of the competitions is held under the odd title of "Reindeer-Nursing". March 04, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper).