Who Are The Sami?

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    In the frozen Far-North of Europe, beneath the Northern Lights, lies a land of snow, endless tundra, and dense forests. Where ancient languages and songs echo on the frigid air. Where majestic reindeer roam...majestically.
    Anyway...this is Sapmi, home of the Sami people. The indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula.
    Located mostly north of the Arctic circle, in Sapmi the sun disappears for months in the winter, and may never set in the summer. This is what midnight looks like in summer. For thousands of years the Sami have not only survived but thrived in this land of -30 degree celsius winters and midsummer snows.
    But who are the Sami, what is their story, and wizards...can they help you find your lost socks??? Well Let's Find Out!
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  • @CogitoEdu
    @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +90

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    • @maeam
      @maeam Před 3 lety +2

      Hi!!

    • @shrekwithawillsmithface465
      @shrekwithawillsmithface465 Před 3 lety +1

      E

    • @mehakpreetsinghsohi4428
      @mehakpreetsinghsohi4428 Před 3 lety +1

      I am requesting you from a long time please make a video on what is Christianity

    • @lijahsmum
      @lijahsmum Před 3 lety +2

      I tried the link but got this error message:
      500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERRORCode: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILEDID: sfo1::24c5w-1614479551215-9f08cabc72df
      I love your videos and am interested in any future stuff you are involved in.

    • @IronpenWorldbuilding
      @IronpenWorldbuilding Před 3 lety +1

      Mooses might be more fun to say then moose, but meese, beats out them all. Lol

  • @1307
    @1307 Před 3 lety +1070

    The erasure of saami culture and language by way of forcing the children into boarding schools reminds me of the residential schools founded in Canada in order to stamp out First Nations culture 😔

    • @christopherneelyakagoattmo6078
      @christopherneelyakagoattmo6078 Před 3 lety +104

      This also happened where I grew up in southern Appalachia with the Muskogee Creek and Chicamauga Cherokee tribes through the 1950s.

    • @jonathan545
      @jonathan545 Před 3 lety +105

      Same thing was happening in Australia with aborigines too, it’s devastating for culture

    • @maryammahdavi
      @maryammahdavi Před 3 lety +30

      As Canadian, I agree with that emoji. Settlers back then were evil.

    • @jennyleung7533
      @jennyleung7533 Před 3 lety +62

      It’s still happening to Uyghur people in China

    • @ajarofmayonnaise3250
      @ajarofmayonnaise3250 Před 3 lety +33

      @@jennyleung7533 bruh they isn’t taught they are put in concentration camps to die

  • @Cosmiccoffeecup
    @Cosmiccoffeecup Před 3 lety +381

    The Yoik singer was so peaceful.

  • @ycasto1063
    @ycasto1063 Před 3 lety +267

    Broke: Moose
    Woke: Mooses
    Ascended: M E E S E

  • @Erikatharsis
    @Erikatharsis Před 3 lety +316

    Somebody's probably already pointed this out, but the modern Sámi flag doesn't represent a drum. It represents a sun-moon symbol that was often depicted on drums.
    Outside of that minor mistake, this is a top-tier video.

  • @Jo-Heike
    @Jo-Heike Před rokem +39

    As a Sami I found this video surprisingly accurate, and detailed, not that both couldn't have been improved.

    • @Kapteinpro
      @Kapteinpro Před 6 měsíci

      duohtavuohta

    • @Kapteinpro
      @Kapteinpro Před 6 měsíci +2

      I am also a Sami. Sad thing is when my class is learning about our people, all the girls are disreapecting our people and all the boyse are speachless.

  • @shinydas1767
    @shinydas1767 Před 2 lety +222

    This video makes me so sad. I wish all of human race treated nature with respect, and didn't let greed get the better of us. Great video...loved learning about the Sami. Love from India.

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 Před 2 lety +5

      You guys kill Adivasis in India

    • @shinydas1767
      @shinydas1767 Před 2 lety +16

      @@Doctor_Fate5 yes we did, and I wish that didn't happen.

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 Před 2 lety +2

      @@shinydas1767 it still happens whyyy

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 Před 2 lety

      @Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh where are you from

    • @feargripper
      @feargripper Před 2 lety

      @@shinydas1767 this didn’t age well lmaooooooo

  • @datpiff2344
    @datpiff2344 Před 2 lety +88

    My ancestors were sami and this is such a useful video, my great grandfather passed away before i could really talk to him about our finnish/semi ancestry. I just wish I could have wathed this video with him. I know he would have loved it.
    Thank you.

  • @zahando5420
    @zahando5420 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Thank you for making this video and educating the internet about my people. Eatnat áktet!

  • @valkeakirahvi
    @valkeakirahvi Před 3 lety +160

    Thank you for the video! I'm not Sámi, but I'm studying Sámi studies in the university, and I think this was resonably accurate, and raised many of the most important Sámi issues.

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 Před 3 lety +1

      The state of it

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi Před 3 lety +2

      @@pelayo341 What

    • @luringen947
      @luringen947 Před rokem

      The Sami are not the indigenous people of Norway! Norwegians were already here 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the Sami came much later, about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi Před rokem

      @@luringen947 Lol. Norwegians didn't exist back then. Even Proto-Indo-Europeans didn't exist until 6500 years ago.

    • @luringen947
      @luringen947 Před rokem +1

      Norwegians come from two ethnic groups. one group came to Norway for approx. 12,000 years ago. and the other group came about 5,600 years ago. but the Sami did not arrive until 2000-2500 years ago. and mingled with us. you can just google and you will see.

  • @frostyalaska6371
    @frostyalaska6371 Před 3 lety +307

    Please do a video on the Alaskan natives extremely under appreciated culture

    • @psycologo121
      @psycologo121 Před 3 lety +3

      Have you seen Molly of Denali

    • @gailism
      @gailism Před 3 lety +3

      Are they different from Inuit in Canada?

    • @098saw
      @098saw Před 3 lety +3

      There was a great little game called never alone that followed one of the Alaskan native peoples stories

    • @frostyalaska6371
      @frostyalaska6371 Před 3 lety +17

      @@gailism Very different the brooks mountain range separated them completely the inupiaqs spoke a different language but are always called inuits. Theres many different groups do to the size all with there own unique languages and cultures. Do to the horrible atrocities of the boarding schools. almost all of our languages an cultures were destroyed by taking kids over the age of 5 and having the older kids beat the younger kids for speaking there native tounge since we were all oral cultures it just devasted our ability to keep our history alive. They even banned singing and dancing because it was how we memorized and kept our stories throughout the years. We dont even get compensation the "indians" in the lower 48 get 50 grand by age 21. Sorry for the long rant haha just passionate about my ancestors past wish it was known to more people, hopefully theyll make a video on it and teach more people about us.

    • @gailism
      @gailism Před 3 lety +7

      @@frostyalaska6371 Thank you for sharing! I have met some Inuit Canadians but did not know that there was much difference from Alaskan natives. Natives in Canada went through a very similar experience as the one you described. We had residential schools all across the country until the 1990s that tried to take away language and culture from the native people here. The government even killed sled dogs up north to stop people from moving around. Some people in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon still speak Inuktitut though, and Cree is also widely spoken

  • @brandonhiraeth4537
    @brandonhiraeth4537 Před 2 lety +50

    It's heartbreaking what the rich and powerful did to the tapestry of beautiful and diverse cultures of the world.

    • @siervodedios5952
      @siervodedios5952 Před 2 lety

      @Eric Walls As well as alcoholism, disease, genocide, poverty, erasure of their culture and language, human trafficking, etc. All these has been done to not just the Sami, but also the Ainu of Japan; Native Americans and various other Indigenous Americans throughout North, Central, and South America, the Aboriginal Australians of well Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, etc.
      If you truly think this bs is good for these people than you're even more moronic than I thought.

  • @Joseph-qd9ew
    @Joseph-qd9ew Před 3 lety +124

    I was just thinking yesterday “what if cogito did a video on the Sami” 😂 thanks cogito!

  • @KellieSuttle
    @KellieSuttle Před rokem +30

    "I know it's 'moose', but 'mooses' is more fun to say." Not all heroes wear capes. ❤

  • @just_a_turtle_chad
    @just_a_turtle_chad Před 3 lety +173

    *A turtle approves of the Sámi people*

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +46

      And I approve of this turtle

    • @buzzthebuzzer6230
      @buzzthebuzzer6230 Před 3 lety +9

      Thanks turtle

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +6

      On behalf of the Sámi people, giitu =)

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +2

      @Kadir Garip on behalf of the people of the land, children of sun and wind, guardians of the reindeer - yes
      If you want to take the piss, do it properly.

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +2

      @Kadir Garip since most of us Sámi don't live in Sapmi anymore, we don't call ourselves "people of Sapmi" aka "people of the land" but just simply Sámi people (we're not one "tribe" given our different history, language, Gákti and culture)

  • @heathenfire
    @heathenfire Před 3 lety +132

    I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the land of the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 Před 3 lety +10

      I come from a very similar land, Alaska the land of the midnight sun, our native cultures and their histories are very similar, sadly. Have a great day, blessed be.

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi Před 3 lety

      Too bad all the springs are cold in Sápmi :D

    • @cheriann6461
      @cheriann6461 Před 3 lety +16

      lol. Apparently not too many Led Zepplin fans, on this thread.

    • @heathenfire
      @heathenfire Před 3 lety +1

      @@cheriann6461 apparently not😅

    • @heathenfire
      @heathenfire Před 3 lety +1

      @@jameskosusnik1102 hi I've never met anybody from Alaska. are you of native American descent?

  • @maeam
    @maeam Před 3 lety +86

    Idk why, But CZcams isn’t giving me notifications for y'all. Like this is the first upload i've seen since the history of tea.

    • @spongeboblover7052
      @spongeboblover7052 Před 3 lety +4

      same problem

    • @jenelaina5665
      @jenelaina5665 Před 3 lety +4

      @@spongeboblover7052 I got one for this one, but the first one in ages. Since Tea too, pretty sure.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +21

      Thanks for letting me know. CZcams is really bad at telling subscribers about their subscriptions

    • @jenelaina5665
      @jenelaina5665 Před 3 lety +2

      @Ze Porg done that no dice

    • @maryammahdavi
      @maryammahdavi Před 3 lety

      Same

  • @zsoltsandor3814
    @zsoltsandor3814 Před 2 lety +40

    This is an exceptionally well put together video, absolutely high quality in all aspects. As a Hungarian with a special fondness for the Sámi people, I shall say: giitu.

    • @mysteriousDSF
      @mysteriousDSF Před rokem

      Yes, we should embrace our real origins than claiming to be Turkic or Iranic. Maybe Orbán is personally a Turkic-Iranic person but Hungarians aren't.

  • @alexwall7204
    @alexwall7204 Před 3 lety +55

    I particularly enjoyed the visuals this video, they were really well done! Thanks for the content as always, Cogito.
    There's a great museum section on the Sami in a museum (the Nordiska museum) in Stockholm, for those interested and visiting.

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +7

      yepp, and some beautiful stolen artifacts, that we Sámi are trying to return to their families.... colonialism...

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 Před 3 lety

      Charly KatBat owned

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety

      @@pelayo341 ?

  • @Atlas_Uncharted
    @Atlas_Uncharted Před rokem +18

    Otters are magical. Look at the way they hold onto each other. They show us the importance of community and looking after each other. Otters are great fishers and quite intelligent. Also I did a tiny bit of looking into it and the Sami saw their lives on both the land and on sea as a crossing of two worlds and connected that to shamanistic practice. Some Sami tamed otters to help with fishing. Also they are extremely cute.

  • @Protoplanetary
    @Protoplanetary Před 2 lety +39

    it's important to note that "Sámi" as a language encompasses a large range of dialects, which each belong to a unique culture within the larger Sámi one. Northern Sámi is the most stable out of all of them, and is what most Sámi media is made in today

    • @david82633
      @david82633 Před rokem +5

      There are 10 recognized languages aswell as the extinct ones spoken in Kemi and Kaiinu, and within each language there are many dialects

  • @nebiru00
    @nebiru00 Před 2 lety +37

    This is so nice. Other history channel's pick apart the Mediterranean but when they get to this part of the world it's like " Then some scary sailors came from here and wrecked stuff, anyway here's wonderwall".

    • @CJBroonie
      @CJBroonie Před rokem +2

      Someone watches oversimplified!

  • @emenefer
    @emenefer Před 3 lety +87

    I'm thankful for content creators like you. I'm fascinated by indigenous peoples' culture but far too lazy to do the research.

    • @grizzlybearkid3265
      @grizzlybearkid3265 Před 3 lety +5

      i encourage you to put in the effort! it's the least we can do living in a colonized world

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +13

      Happy to help people learn about indigenous people. Most people wouldn't bother to even watch a video, so you're not lazy :)

    • @pas-giaw6055
      @pas-giaw6055 Před 3 lety

      I agree with all of the people, every one liked

    • @emenefer
      @emenefer Před 3 lety +1

      @@grizzlybearkid3265 I think my best effort was checking out the museum of anthropology in Dumaguete. Although even my own folks don't have all the pieces to their own past.

    • @copeandseethe9279
      @copeandseethe9279 Před 3 lety +4

      @@grizzlybearkid3265 the Sami were not colonised. Nords existed before they did.

  • @Sarah-bd1yr
    @Sarah-bd1yr Před 3 lety +64

    If you are curious about how the Sámi language sounds, Frozen 2 has been dubbed in Sámi! There are videos of it available on youtube

    • @ChantelStays
      @ChantelStays Před 3 lety +6

      Kristoff is Sami for sure

    • @alis.b.4631
      @alis.b.4631 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ChantelStays That honestly could be! Makes sense now.

  • @djamelben9221
    @djamelben9221 Před 3 lety +25

    10:48 i never knew i would want to marry a voice
    seriously though all my respect to the saami people and hope that you keep fighting for you culture without any casualty
    _an amazigh man

  • @takdangkasaysayan9098
    @takdangkasaysayan9098 Před rokem +8

    I do remember this from Frozen. I am proud that Frozen represents the Sami people as well.

  • @kramp154
    @kramp154 Před 3 lety +7

    Thankyou so much, whenever you two make a video it really is a gift

    • @kramp154
      @kramp154 Před 3 lety +1

      Cogito im sorry to ask but no nebula commentary?

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +3

      The commentaries have stopped for now because we haven't had a good recording space. We're setting something new up at the minute :)

    • @kramp154
      @kramp154 Před 3 lety +1

      @@CogitoEdu ok thankyou, they are definitely the highlight on the site, and so fun, take your time and thankyou for all you do, love the origins of peoples and things series,

  • @heavenly2k
    @heavenly2k Před 2 lety +7

    These videos are something special. Never voyeuristic, just wanting to learn about and respect others. I love it.

  • @anterb2540
    @anterb2540 Před 3 lety +2

    this is a pretty good introduction to the sami people, its the best english video i have found so far on YT, good work!

  • @Kurtizss
    @Kurtizss Před 3 lety +41

    Saami Culture in 9th-19th Century: Stop please!!
    Saami Culture in 20th-21st Century: *The Future is now old man*

  • @SweetLilWren
    @SweetLilWren Před 3 lety +8

    Wow!
    Absolutely fascinating, I had never heard of these people I'm so happy that I found your video this was just so frikkin great!!

  • @scottbruner9987
    @scottbruner9987 Před 2 lety +2

    I looked up some more Yoiks o CZcams. Absolutely beautiful!
    Thanks Cogito, for introducing me to a new form of entertainment.

  • @Aeyekay0
    @Aeyekay0 Před 3 lety +2

    That was a really well done video, I knew a little bit about the Sami but now I feel very educated. Good work

  • @TravisSelassieSimbawafedha
    @TravisSelassieSimbawafedha Před 3 lety +18

    400th like ... and Yes Young Blood Otters are truly amazing ... in some of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation the story of how soil came to be so the first person could plant the tree of life . The Tuscarora ( the People of the Hemp) tell wonderful stories of the Otter. Part of my family is Scandinavian/Sámi genetically, many blessings upon you for this video.

  • @charlykatbat4468
    @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +39

    I have to admit, I first was very sceptic about your video. I always am, when it comes to my people, as sadly a lot usually gets sugar coated, not to offend modern Swedish or Norwegian ears. And although I (surprisingly) widely agree with your video, there is one thing I'd like to add. In Sweden, we're still legally a "foreign minority", so we're not seen as the indigenous people of northern Sweden (at least as a legal status), and sadly also in a lot of people's heads, we're still just "stupid, smelly reindeer herders". But as you said yourself, we Sámi have time on our side, and we know how to wait. Mus lea sáme siellu!

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 Před 3 lety +2

      Go back to asia

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 Před 3 lety +12

      @@pelayo341 Dude, I'm European. Doavki!

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 Před 3 lety +11

      @@pelayo341 you do realise that only 20%-15 of the Sami people's dna is of "recent" asian origin.

    • @lemonlemonade9497
      @lemonlemonade9497 Před 3 lety +6

      @@pelayo341 shut up they are European

    • @lemonlemonade9497
      @lemonlemonade9497 Před 3 lety +3

      @@charlykatbat4468 don't listen to those people. They are probably from USA trying to divide us more like they did to themselves. You guys are Europeans and natives as much like others. We came from the same hunter gatherers anwyas. We just mixed with different people.

  • @transamgal9
    @transamgal9 Před 3 lety

    Yeah!!!!! Always a good day when you upload.💝💞

  • @chavamara
    @chavamara Před 3 lety +7

    I documented a series of slides covering a research expedition among the Sapmi people for the Bata Shoe Museum a few years back! Glad to learn a bit more about them now. :)

  • @jameskosusnik1102
    @jameskosusnik1102 Před 3 lety +15

    Thank you for doing this video Cogito, My home of Alaska, unfortunately its natives share a similar history from both the russians and Americans. Good video Cogito and greetings from Anchorage, Alaska.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +11

      Interesting fact, the USA imported Sami into Alaska to teach the native Alaskans how to heard reindeer

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 Před 3 lety +2

      @@CogitoEdu Thats so cool 😎. Although I believe I've heard of it but it was in elementary school, I think. Sometime when I was a kid. Could you also do a history of Alaska video as well?

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 Před 3 lety +2

      @@CogitoEdu also you should try reindeer sausage if you come to alaska Cogito, its amazing

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Před 3 lety +2

      The major difference is that the Sami are technically not even indigenous to Europe. They migrated west into northern Scandinavia from Siberia just a couple thousand years ago. Hence why they have Asiatic features. The majority population of Scandinavia today, the Nordic people who are descendants of Vikings, are the indigenous people of the region.

    • @mehmetcanoner7897
      @mehmetcanoner7897 Před 3 lety +2

      ​@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Same with Indo European groups. IE people came from north caucasus to euro,assimilated entire old european groups.Almost no people of eurasia is actually native to nowhere.

  • @evropatsar4282
    @evropatsar4282 Před 3 lety +51

    Please do a video on the Iroquois confederacy, they are an amazing people, also loved this video

  • @D0ugh.B0y
    @D0ugh.B0y Před rokem

    Love your context. Great work, brother!

  • @d34710
    @d34710 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for doing this ❤️❤️

  • @anxiousfoodperson8116
    @anxiousfoodperson8116 Před 3 lety +17

    I was so sure yoiks was just Cogito saying yikes in an Irish accent

  • @GreasyFox
    @GreasyFox Před 2 lety +6

    The eradication of Sami culture is a dark spot in the history of Scandinavia.

    • @SveinJohnnyFedje
      @SveinJohnnyFedje Před 11 měsíci

      Blame Christianity. The same was done to Scandinavians between 900-1000bc.

  • @2010stoof
    @2010stoof Před 2 lety +1

    Learning a whole lot on your channel. Things I never knew about

  • @sisenor4091
    @sisenor4091 Před 2 lety +2

    I just love this video. Funny and very respectful.

  • @DasIllu
    @DasIllu Před 3 lety +14

    Goose - Geese
    Moose - Meese
    The more you know.

  • @AmbientFocusAudio
    @AmbientFocusAudio Před 2 lety +16

    Just saw this on Nebula, very good - and amusing in a delightfully silly way. 🙃 It's a sad state of affairs that I, as a Swedish citizen from birth, learned more about our indigenous population from an Irishman in a half-hour video on the internet than in 36 years of life. I only really knew they herd reindeer (didn't know they used to hunt), that colonialism went about as well for them as for the natives across the Arctic, that we committed cultural genocide through forced assimilation of their children like Britain/Canada did to the Inuit and First Nations, and the forced sterilisation. And the parliament and TV/radio programmes of course - pretty feeble as reparations go.
    Like all Christian peoples (I reckon the Christ dude in that word might take issue with that), ours is a history of unbelievable hypocrisy - right up until recent times. We should be teaching this history in schools from a very early age - we are no better than the British, French or Spanish, we too have exploited, persecuted and murdered people on the native lands which we have stolen from them. As we see the precursors to genocide falling into place all over Europe, we need to be teaching about ALL colonialism in EVERY part of the world from the perspective of the colonised here as in all majority-white countries, but we should start at home!
    I knew very little or next to nothing beyond "they worship nature and stuff", knew about yoik but not its significance, knew there was some sort of shamanistic thing going on, heard of the creation myth. And I love Lapphundar! One of the oldest and most intelligent dog breeds, and total little charmers. They need a ton of exercise and activity though, so I think I'll have to do without their company.
    Anyway, thanks, great vid.

    • @shadrichardson6627
      @shadrichardson6627 Před 11 měsíci

      My family escaped to America in 1898 and I think I understand why now.

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman Před 3 lety +2

    I didn't know about this. Thanks for the info!

  • @srikanthsidd9959
    @srikanthsidd9959 Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome video! 😉😊

  • @ap9893
    @ap9893 Před 3 lety +7

    The art, the subject, the educational value on this video was *chef's kisses* Thank you for this video!I had never heard of these indigenous peoples before.

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. Před 3 lety +17

    Your 'Peoples' videos are my favourite.
    Anyway, time to listen to some Yoik bangers.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +3

      Yoiks bangers are my new favourite genre of music. They make everything sound epic

    • @JixieDye
      @JixieDye Před 2 lety

      @@CogitoEdu I was glad you put Keiino in there and Frozen, both my favourite Yoik/Joiks and was glad to see new ones too!

  • @hermit7903
    @hermit7903 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video!

  • @beiko9279
    @beiko9279 Před 3 lety +3

    THANK YOU!!!

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 Před 3 lety +48

    I had a feeling these people would be next.
    Fascinating culture

  • @liezelvevang5306
    @liezelvevang5306 Před rokem +6

    I love Sami people remind me of the Philippines indigenous people called Aeta that have been through so much tough times in there own land😞❤️

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert Před 3 lety

    Another awesome video 😁

  • @spaceyofficial.0127
    @spaceyofficial.0127 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I just learnt something new and I will be looking more into this to be educated thank you 🙌🏾

  • @lucasruault666
    @lucasruault666 Před 3 lety +19

    I prefer the plurals “ Meece” or “Moosi” for Moose .

  • @panntherapannthera4093
    @panntherapannthera4093 Před 3 lety +18

    I was born in the UK and just got my maternal DNA results showing the Sami people as my ancestors. I responded on a visceral level to their mythology, drumming and yoiks from this video and intend to explore my roots further. Thank you for such a well-made and contemporary video

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 Před 2 lety +1

      Is that possible? Some sami came with the drakkars of vikings in the year 536 AD and settled in Great Britain? And his Dna can still bee traced? It sounds very dubious to me sorry. Perhaps a more prosaic, modern, normal explanation? (your great great grandmoder came from Samni to England as a cook for some rich diplomat who were in Finland? or some simmilar history)

    • @eclecticraeen
      @eclecticraeen Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@antifazisbonifaz6964my results said the same thing and also linked me to great Britain as well. I was confused by this because of how I look and the fact that I was linked to anywhere in between e everywhere else is indigenous Americas and A LOT of places in Africa. This confused me.. especially after researching I couldn't understand the link.. especially looking through family records I'd hoped to find maybe one side of family there and I guess in great Britain but my research was to no avail. This is the first video that has been this good with details so now I understand completely. ❤

    • @eclecticraeen
      @eclecticraeen Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@antifazisbonifaz6964I'm just a mix of the worlds indigenous 🥲

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@eclecticraeen a very good lineage. You should be proud of it. Very remarkable 👍👍👍👏👏👏🙂👌👌

  • @keithharrell2796
    @keithharrell2796 Před 3 lety +1

    This is a very well done video.

  • @dominiccummings1893
    @dominiccummings1893 Před 3 lety +16

    Hail to the otters!

    • @oddmahttesara773
      @oddmahttesara773 Před 3 lety +2

      You’re going love the fact that there’s a small village which is called: the otter

  • @miriamzajfman4305
    @miriamzajfman4305 Před 3 lety +8

    Yoiks - a truly beautiful sound 👍

  • @LodiJP
    @LodiJP Před 3 lety +7

    I thought I knew about the Sami... but this video was WAY more in-depth than I thought! Learnt loads!

  • @HoH
    @HoH Před 3 lety +2

    I had to go to your channel and open this video through your videos tab to get here. I'll leave a comment for the algorithm. Very frustrating I can imagine.

  • @parveendosanjh7195
    @parveendosanjh7195 Před 2 lety

    So greatully receiving you wisdom xxx

  • @jeostone5255
    @jeostone5255 Před 3 lety +11

    Dude you editing is just so good.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you :D

    • @jeostone5255
      @jeostone5255 Před 3 lety

      @@CogitoEdu hey, if you don't mind, It would be great for you to make a skillshare class. It could earn you some pocket money, and for people who are starting youtube like me, it would be great to have lessons from the best. Thanks!

  • @tateoien871
    @tateoien871 Před 3 lety +14

    Been waiting to see you cover this! Love your content, you inspired me to check our Sikhi for a time. Would you consider doing an episode on the Assyrian people, culture, religion, etc? That's another cultural group that I find utterly fascinating.

  • @mariammontaser7843
    @mariammontaser7843 Před 3 lety +7

    it'd be awesome if you did a video on the inuit next :)

  • @andythedishwasher1117
    @andythedishwasher1117 Před 3 lety +2

    Lol I loved your depiction of "buying wind".

  • @donovan5656
    @donovan5656 Před 3 lety +3

    They seemed so chill. Literally.

  • @Hermit_mouse
    @Hermit_mouse Před 3 lety +4

    So fascinating! This channel is always really good, but I think this my favorite episode so far. I would have never even heard of these people. And to think, a culture that stayed in complete harmony with the land and animals, and never over hunted or over foraged!

  • @JixieDye
    @JixieDye Před 2 lety +2

    I lived in Hereford and actually got to see the Mappa Mundi. Wonderful experience and I absolutely recommend seeing it in person if you can

  • @luislozano6073
    @luislozano6073 Před rokem

    I love this videos about people, thanks

  • @donovannewton8242
    @donovannewton8242 Před 3 lety +7

    The Sámi people, send representatives to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (DAPP). Which was the largest indigenous protest in North America.

  • @kinok5927
    @kinok5927 Před 3 lety +3

    A similar video on the Basques is just waiting to be made by this channel.

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent!😊🐝❤

  • @willieboy9782
    @willieboy9782 Před 2 lety

    Last thing I expected was the thick inner city Dublin accent! Brilliant.
    Thanks a million champ!!

  • @princesspat5239
    @princesspat5239 Před 3 lety +8

    i never knew i loved sami culture until now

  • @sparksi2519
    @sparksi2519 Před 2 lety +6

    Weird. Im Finnish and learned a whole lot from this. I mean what I knew beforehand can be summed up in "yeah, so there is this people up north who herd reindeer, have drums with stickfigures on them, like blue clothing and apparently our government was a bit of dick to them sometime ago." 🤔

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 Před 6 měsíci

    such a great series

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 Před rokem

    The content is wonderfully informative, but hearing you pronounce the “th” sound is why I watch ☺️
    Big fan from SW Missouri 🇺🇸

  • @kayakat1869
    @kayakat1869 Před 2 lety +6

    How did I miss this? I suggested it. 😂 Thank you so much.

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 Před 3 lety +44

    This culture is so cool! This is the VERY first time that I’ve EVER heard of this culture! I guess I’ve heard of them before from Frozen, but I’ve never k ew of the name of this culture! It’s so sad what colonization has done to this culture and other indigenous cultures around the world! Thank u SO MUCH for enlightening me about the Sami people! ☺️

    • @ManiacMayhem7256
      @ManiacMayhem7256 Před 2 lety

      @SpätzlenFoxTea quiet

    • @brittanyhayes1043
      @brittanyhayes1043 Před 2 lety

      There white \0/

    • @ManiacMayhem7256
      @ManiacMayhem7256 Před 2 lety +2

      @@brittanyhayes1043 uh what point are you trying to make?

    • @eionthegod
      @eionthegod Před 11 měsíci +1

      Well it’s not really a case of colonialism since the Norse(the ancestors of the Norwegian and Swedish) have been there for thousands of years as well it’s more of a case of one powerful group subjugating a weaker group which has happened throughout all of human history doesn’t make it any less bad it’s just not colonialism

    • @scythianking7315
      @scythianking7315 Před 11 měsíci

      @@eionthegod These people are idio ts. They think anyone that lives in a Tipi is "indigenous". Sami are the Colonizers here, they arrived THOUSANDS of years after the Norse. Anyone with even 10 minutes of Anthropoligcal study under their belts knows this

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Před 3 lety +2

    very cool thanks

  • @markdenney7977
    @markdenney7977 Před rokem +2

    I was very lucky as an Englishman, to have lived with a Sami family on the island of Kvaløya, close to Trømso for 2 years. Really was an amazing experience. I have travelled a lot, but that was the most memorable time.

  • @kramp154
    @kramp154 Před 3 lety +5

    Absolutly beautifull art

  • @mikoparolanto
    @mikoparolanto Před 3 lety +3

    I pressed the bell and clicked on all. I need notifications from this channel.
    Hoping that you one day cover Esperanto. :)

  • @kapimanen819
    @kapimanen819 Před rokem +1

    Thank u cogito

  • @sepnyte9422
    @sepnyte9422 Před 2 lety

    3:31 I love how informative this video is but also the suttle humor lol

  • @bobmalibaliyahmarley1551
    @bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 Před 2 lety +3

    I love my Sami brothers and sisters in Norway

  • @moby755
    @moby755 Před 3 lety +4

    woah, this wasn't on my youtube notifications. I totally missed it! whats wrong with CZcams these days?

  • @SISTERHANNA
    @SISTERHANNA Před rokem +1

    My grandma is from the north of sweden and she and my grandpa visit her hometown every year + the jokkmokk market, i went with them to the north for the first time last year to sarek/hiking trip n I loved it so much❤️ wish i could learn to speak some of the language

    • @RosieBrownie
      @RosieBrownie Před 8 měsíci +1

      I live in north Sweden and we have a preserved old Sámi marketplace here and I work there at Christmas time and it's a beautiful nature reservation🥰❤💜🧡

  • @logancoolgamer-zn7yu
    @logancoolgamer-zn7yu Před 3 lety +1

    Anotha great video

  • @newone5198
    @newone5198 Před 3 lety +8

    13:02 Finns did not force Sami to move to north, actually. For a large part, Sami people in the south melted into Finns.

    • @paikio
      @paikio Před 2 lety +4

      As far as I know Finns robbed and killed Sámi and that's why Sámi moved to north. If I'm wrong and you have some sources I could read or something please let me know I definitely want to know more about our history

    • @FINNSTIGAT0R
      @FINNSTIGAT0R Před 2 lety +7

      @@paikio
      One thing about us Finns is that we never ever will admit any large scale wrong doings towards any other people group. That's because it messes up our self image as innocent, honest, just people.
      You see us Finns like to see ourselves as victims of constant oppression (Swedish and Russian oppression), which washes away our own sins.
      I know little of how much Finns did cruel things to Sami, but I do know about our tendency to see ourselves as pure of evil, especially the evils of European style colonisation and oppressing other peoples. That's one of the Finnish soul's corner stones - the self image of pure innocence in all things bad and cruel.

    • @paikio
      @paikio Před 2 lety +6

      @@FINNSTIGAT0R yeah I know Finns like to ignore everything that's wrong in this country. Funny thing is Finland is still treating Sámi like crap.

    • @GodsGreatest
      @GodsGreatest Před 2 lety +1

      @@FINNSTIGAT0R that is just how humans are . Only small percentage of humans admit such truths and you should be proud to be one of them . Believe me , even In Africa , some tribes did bad things but they completely deny because they weren't the oppressed ones . Thanks 😊

    • @askman1116
      @askman1116 Před 2 lety

      @@FINNSTIGAT0R Varmaan oot kuunnellu joitain saamelais nationalisteja. Useat tutkijat nykypäivänä kyseenalaistaa väitteet jostain väkivaltaisesta kolonisaatiosta.

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 Před rokem +4

    I'm Slovak and the word Sami is funny to me cause in Slovak language "sami" means "alone". (Specifically "we alone", it is a plural nominative of the word "sám" which means "alone").

  • @CommentLikeDescribe
    @CommentLikeDescribe Před 3 lety +1

    Love these peeps.

  • @ibsern
    @ibsern Před 3 lety +1

    Nice vid

  • @laurajanis9690
    @laurajanis9690 Před 2 lety +3

    I am Sami. Thru Greenland into Canada then Boston

  • @luralord9202
    @luralord9202 Před rokem +4

    I'm a norwegian, and I really wish my people treated the sami better than we did.

    • @SveinJohnnyFedje
      @SveinJohnnyFedje Před 11 měsíci +1

      You do know that Christianity did worse to our forefathers the Vikings right? Convert or die was the choice.
      Most of the Sami and their decedents came hundreds of years after this happened.

  • @suzbone
    @suzbone Před 2 lety +1

    The snowshoe and boot combo at 7:04 is genius