There are quite a few videos about the Sami people on YouTube. Here are some of the ones we think are are great footage.
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Jun 18 2019
Jun 11 2019
WHEN THE JOIK CAME TO ME
Written by guestblogger Stéphane Aubinet, a researcher from Belgium.
The yoik first came to me long before I started to do “research” about it, when I was a teenager living in Belgium. I was immediately struck by its immediacy, its…
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Jun 4 2019
SAMI GODS, GODDESSESS AND MYTHICAL ENTITIES
Here is a list of Sámi gods, goddesses and other mythical entities.
So much has been forgotten about the Sami world view and beliefs and words over the years and most of the written material from the pre-christian beliefs where…
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May 28 2019
WHY THIS BLOG IS IN ENGLISH
This blog is in English so that as many people as possible understand what we write about.
As Samis living in Norway with alot of foreign speaking friends and quiantances we know that translating everything to tree languages is ALOT…
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May 21 2019
SAMI NAMES
Gárdin-Ingá to the right, and her friend at Gárdin Mountainhouse in Karasjok.
Most of the Sami people use two names nowadays, – the Sami and the registered name. But the Sami names are less and less used, mostly of practical…
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May 14 2019
THEY DONT KNOW WHO WE ARE, BUT THEY DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE, SO WE DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE, BUT DO WE KNOW WHO WE ARE?
Photo: A view from the first printed map of the Nordic countries, designed by Olaus Magnus and published in Venice in 1539. Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus / Northern Lights Road. University Library in Tromsø – 1999. (public domain)
The…
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May 7 2019
IS IT OK FOR DAŽA TO JOIK?
Apr 30 2019
WHO IS SAMI AND WHO IS DAŽA?
Who is Sami and who is not? This is a question that a lot of people are concerned about at he moment. The later years there are so many people who have just discovered that they are Sami, both in…
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Apr 23 2019
CAN WE FUSION THE MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY WITH OLD SHAMANIC TEACHINGS AND MAKE THE WORLD BETTER THEN IT HAS EVER BEEN?
” Now is the most important moment in history of humankind. Because now we have to take a choice to even have a future. This time in history we have the means to destroy ourselves. But we can choose not…
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Apr 16 2019
LIST OF SAMI BANDS AND MUSIC ARTISTS
Photo by Johan Mathis Gaup
The later years – I would say the last 6-7 years there have popped up tons of Sami music artists. When I started recording music in Sami language, around 2004, there where not many bands…
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Apr 9 2019
WHAT DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMOM?
Photo of Jungle Svonni and Lorenzo Seuny Izquierdo Arroyo by Marijke Kodden.
What does it mean to be Sámi, or indigenous in any tribe for that matter?
Well, the other day I sat digesting my dinner at a restaurant in…
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Apr 2 2019
Reconstructing culture through art- for the memory of Sámi Noaidi Aikia Aikianpoika
Written by guest blogger, postdoctoral researcher Francis Joy, also posted on Agon.fi 2018.
Abstract
The practice of Sámi shamanism is a cultural phenomenon, which has a long and ambiguous history throughout Sápmi, which are primarily, the northernmost areas of…
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