Guardians of Lapland: Sámi Reindeer Herders, Hunting Folklore and More!
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- čas přidán 12. 12. 2023
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In this video I talk about traditions of the Sámi people in Lapland such as reindeer herding, I also tell some folktales from this region! Enjoy 🔥
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references:
Hansen, Lars Ivar; Olsen, Bjørnar (2014). Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History. The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD. Peoples, Economics and Cultures. Vol. 63. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7.
Aikio, Ante (2012). "An essay on Saami ethnolinguistic prehistory". Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society.
Juoksa - The Sámi Bow - Siida". Siida. 10 June 2010.
The Saami, Samisk, Sámi. Available at: saamiblog.blogspot.com/
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC) (n.d.) The Sami of Northern Europe - one people, four countries. Available at: www.unric.org/en/indigenous-pe...
Swedish Institute (1999) The Sami People in Sweden. Available: www.samenland.nl/lap_sami_si.html
n.a. (1996) An Introduction to the Sami people. Available at: boreale.konto.itv.se/samieng.htm
Mulk, Inga-Maria, (2013). Máttaráhkká: Mother Earth in Sami rock art. Available at: www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.p...
Henriksen, J.B. (2011) Sami Self-determination. Available at: www.galdu.org/govat/doc/galdu_...
The Reindeer chronicles book: www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/the...
Inari sami folklore book:
www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/ina...
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Awesome old footage of the Sámi people! Great Video!
Just got back from my trip to Finland and I’m so fascinated with the Sami people, lovely video
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Great amont of effort has gone into this vid, well done sir!
Love the video! ❤
Listening whilst as work 👌 interesting!
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Loved this one! You always put so much research into your videos, and it truly shows. Well done, lad❤
it's sad that I and many others get more information from CZcams than I did from school back in the day.
Great as always
Really nice that story in yle
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Beautiful video and folklore! I know that the constellation known as Cassiopeia to the Greeks was called the antlers of a great elk or reindeer. The two triangles of Cassiopeia really do look like that, and then imagine the whole body. But I am not sure which constellation is the bow hunter. Anyone know? Perhaps Väinämöinen (Orion)?
I couldn't easily find the Lauri Lappalainen's poem, but I wonder what word was originally used for "gun". Most likely a bad translation as I can't even think a specific word for a gun other than tuliase 'fire weapon' as even pyssy which today is used for a gun would have meant just a projectile weapon. Also hunting squirrel with a gun would have been counter productive as you hunted for the pelt and have a hole in it would have made it lose it's value so you'd use blunt arrow tips instead.
I do not understand why Sámi people cant live in peace with their own culture, language and laws. It's weird that in this day they have to fight for the right to use their language as a official language. But I respect that all the difficulties they still keep a tight grip on their heritage. The love they have for the land and nature is something to be inspired of.
Because they live in Sweden or Finland (or Russia, I guess) and they have to conform to those countries.
The Samis are far from the only group of people in the area, and if we're gonna give them all special treatment,
it will threaten the culture of the dominant groups. Sweden for instance gets its name from The Sveas.
They were smarter than the other groups, including Samis, and won the battle for the land and therefore
got the honor of giving the country its name. If the Samis had won, it would've been called Samiland.
But they didn't win...
That is some kind of interesting bullshit I have ever heard. You forgot Norway. They have fought against Russia and Sweden with finns. They have suffered by the lost of their children that northern counties had tried to "reform" by beating them and denying the use of their own language. Few hundred years ago Sweden denied Finnish people of their own language. And does not the name Sámi kind of the same as Suomi (Finland)? I am not Sámi but in 1500 my ancestor moved to Sámi land from Sweden ( Old folk say that he tried to kill the Swedish king, and fled to Finland so no-one could find him). I thinks it BS. I did not find any evidence about it to be true, but let the oldwife's tales to be just a story. I would not be surprised if there is some Sámi blood in me. Maby not but why would it matter? But in these days when everyone yells equal rights for everyone... does that not apply to everyone?
@@Mayhem-pv9cc Eh, what?! Haha!
You're deeply confused...
First off, I'm half Finnish, so you can stop it with the guilt trip. My family is from Kemijärvi. And I don't assume responsibility for anything some one else has done.
The loss of their children, what are you talking about now?? Haha, knock it off with the hysterical, woke rhetoric.
Yes, you have stumbled upon the fact that in order to unify people, they must speak the same language, haha!!
Suppression of tongues and dialects have occurred all over the world, including Finland. And because I strongly suspect that I'm talking to a hurri-hating Junti, I have something you're going absolutely hate.
Check this out, and hate yourself for being forced to be grateful to Swedes. Look...
'A significant contribution to the Finnish national awakening from the mid-19th century onward came from the members of the mostly Swedish-speaking upper classes deliberately choosing to promote Finnish culture and language. Snellman was himself an ethnic Swede and was later ennobled. These Finnish Swedes, known as the Fennomans, Fennicized their family names, learned Finnish, and made a point of using Finnish both in public and at home'
If you would like to thank the Swedish people for sticking up for your overly complicated language, I'm right here.
Thank me!
@@jixxytrix1705first of all, calm down. No one is asking you specifically for reparations. Second, if you don't know anything about the topic, maybe don't pretend you do? There has been centuries of discrimination against Sámi people in Norway and Sweden with forced assimilation (Finland is itself only a century old, but it has its fair share of discrimination in this area). There are people still alive, not even that old, that remember being beaten in schools for speaking their Sámi language. They were also forcefully Christianised. Now tell me, in which battle or war did Swedes win the land from Sámi?
@@Mayhem-pv9ccSámi are fighting for thrir rights in all four states they live in. Ideally, Sápmi would be reformed as their state, but that is justthat, an ideal. You have to remember that there is only around 100k Sámi people combined today. Also, there is not one Sámi language. Northern Sámi has most natice speakers altogether, but there are several other Sámi languages, some of them on brink of extinction, some with very few speakers. Now the question would be, how do you protect all of them? There is less than 300 native speakers of Inari Sámi and about the same amount of Skolt sámi speakers in Finland. And then Northern Sámi as thr most common in Finland with aroubd 2000 speakers. How do you make three new official languages of the country when there ia so few native speakers? There has been someprogress made in recent years with Sámi parliament being established in these three counties (Russia, unsurprisingly continues to be one of the shitties countries on Earth in this regard as well). Fhere is a strong movement in Finland to reform the laws concerning Sámi people for example. Ghere is also a strong movement fighting Fosen wind farm in Sápmi in Norway. They won the supreme court case. But shitty capitalists continue to be shitty (zero suprise there) and still refuse to comply with the decision. As you can see inthr comments above, there is stilla lot of bad will and misinformation going around in the majority population of these countries. But hopefully we will go only forward from here.
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