Norway has the most sami people, "Kautokeino" in Norway is the "Sami capital". You also find them in Sweden, Finland and Russia

Kathrine Churchill If youl like to get more information about the Sámi, their culture and the joik, check out my playlists on KZfaq. There is one about the Sámi culture: kzfaq.info/sun/PLUgtbpPL7OP3WdEeESAqxdAih0FGY0uGM and two other playlists about Joik, one about more old joik and one about modern Sámi joik. :)

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sounds like me. much love friend. i too havealways been called to native ways- my family moved here in 1861 from northern norway.

The Sami people are white.

Me too! My Sámi ancestors moved to appalachia. I'm kind of happy I look white and am a dude; it gives me a voice people like me wouldn't normally have. But holy fuck do I crave a cold, natural, arctic experience in Sápmi! I was born 2000 years too late in the wrong part of the world.

@sherry hodges Hello there cousin💖

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath They r Eurasian, their ancestors came from Siberia.

Chasidah *TheFineArtOfWalkingPoint Fried Yes, the word „lap“ shouldn‘t be used according the Sámi people, It was used for the Sámi in that bad times, when they have been oppressed and when they couldn‘t live their culture and religion. That‘s why you only should use the „Sámi“ today when you speak about this beautiful culture!

It’s like how people call Hellas for Greece

You are the first person to mention this subject in a few years now and I'm glad you brought this to light because I've had my fair share of arguments with NON Sapmi people. And it happens often. Lots of ignorant people.

Lapadarian, what I was told

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That's amazing that you've studied all those traditions....I've been researching Siberian shamanism and what's interesting is that they're also reindeer headers!

Also, I'm curious! When you say Chinese shamanism, do you mean daoism?

Tundra Runner it’s not too late. Yes, the most have adapted to normal life. But still we hold on to our culture and traditions and to the day I lay in my grave I will fight to keep the Sami culture alive and going.

@@logical.3225 What can someone like me do to help? I live so far away.

No pls I don’t want them to be spreaded like Vikings and stuff

@Tundra Runner they are doomed because of nazi norwegians and swedes converted them in 1900s.

@Tundra Runner i still believe to god of the sky and goddess of the sun. They didn't get all of us

Alot of sami and sami ancestors are; and have been ashamed of their heritage, because of the oppression against sami people that happened for many years. Alot of sami in Norway didn't dare to speak their language because it often were followed up by being beaten up.

@@loffagood556 But why? Why were they oppressed, and why would it be dangerous to speak the language?

@@Melissa-YupMelissa They were oppressed because of racism; they look different.. As well as the Christians forcefully wanted to make them believe in Christianity, so they strip away their religion and culture. Norway wanted them to speak Norwegian. So if you spoke the sami language, it was often followed up by being beat up. Many were too scared to admit they were sami's, and to this day, many kids are being bullied for being sami.

@@loffagood556 Thank you for your response. I'm sad, though. Based on family photos of my grandparents from the past, I didn't see where the Sami look any different than what I'm used to. I don't know if there is Sami in my distant heritage, but the facial features are very familiar. Even if they look different, though, I admire the strength of spirit, courage, and tenacity of the Sami. They have lived in the harshest environment on the planet and yet have a rich and beautiful culture. How sad that children are still being bullied for being Sami instead of being celebrated.

@@Melissa-YupMelissa The Sami are beautiful people however I was shocked to read they are much smaller than the other inhabitants of Scandinavia, and of Europe in general, he men on average 1.53 m tall, the women 1.47 m As an American angry we don't have the metric system.. That's like 4'10 tall for women and 5'4 for men.. It's a major contrast to be living besides the Tallest Caucasians in the world.. So I can see how they would be noticed right away..

In order to become part of the Saami Parliamentary elections in Norway, you must declare that you regard yourselve as Saami (+ be / turn 18 in the election year), and who either a) have Saami as your home language; or b) has or has had a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent with Saami as their home language; or c) children of a person who is or has been in the electoral number may claim to be included in the electoral number.

i agree its rude to make this statement. Respect them and their culture.

unnaviellja That‘s right! You can never become a Sámi, if you don‘t have relatives, who are Sámi. And one thing is also not quite correct: The dog sledge isn‘t a typical Sámi mean of locomotion. In former times, Sámi people used reindeers to pull their sledges in Winter and also in summer reindeers were used for transport. Later the Sámi maybe adopted the possibility to use Huskys for transport, but this method comes more from Russia and Siberia. Of course, modern Sámi use snowmobiles and quadbikes to herd the reindeer.

I am Sapmi through my bloodline of my mother and my father. As far as I know you have to be born Sapmi as I was. I speak three dialects or Sapmi languages and just because someone speak my language shouldn't necessarily make them an instant Sapmi.

I have Sami heritage, but never lived amount the community... I would not presume to ever have a say in political issues , but I can claim my family tree

and notice how the documentary claims that they "jealously defend their family hermitage" 🙄

@@emackb1457 Ye. Quite passive aggressive "jealously".

There were quite a few wrong things and things that felt off.... And I've only done a bit of research on Sapmi and the Sami people...

RIP our Ugric cousin sami

They look pretty cold to me

Helps with tourism I guess.

In Norway, most Sami live in the capital Oslo

It's not weird. It is quite common for old, Norwegianized Sámis to be ashamed of their origins. It was imposed by the authorities in the young Norwegian state, which wanted to make everyone Norwegian. The Sami were deprived of their rights, the children were sent to boarding schools. There they were only allowed to speak Norwegian, even if they did not know a word of Norwegian. In order to buy land, the household had to speak Norwegian and at some point everyone was forced to change their name to a Norwegian name. This first happened in the areas furthest south, and along the coast. Later, the entire coast was exposed to the same. I grew up on the coast of Finnmark, and in my home village there was not a single Sami when I grew up. Later I realized that the vast majority of them were actually Sami.

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@@Thekoryostribe I have heard this before, just once. Would you be able to elaborate on that? I’m so very interested !

I don't know if the Sami were considered sacred. However, they were highly respected because they had a strong connection to the spiritual. Old Norse mythology and Sami religion are related.

Yeejtsim Lauj Its amazing how long the Sami were even able to hold on to their culture compared to the rest of us finno-ugrics, our cultures and languages were demonized and made illegal by our colonizers almost a thousand years ago, while Sami cultures and languages to this day have had relatively little outside influence

@@0mgskillz96 I understand where your people are coming from. My people we have similar practices beliefs and textiles as your people. We too struggled the same fate as your people.

@Amalie Olsdatter yes i know Scandinavians are native to southern Scandinavia, this however is irrelevant when talking about colonization and the fact that they have fucked over multiple ethnic groups in nearby regions they aren’t native to and forced their culture and rules over them in their own ancestral lands

@Amalie Olsdatter there were Sami on the Island of Kildin which is close to the Norwegian border in the northernmost part of Russian Sápmi over 2000 years ago, also 4-holed siberian style skis used by the Uralic people were found in Sweden (”Kalvträskskidan”) dating back 6000 years, yall Indo-Europeans were still in the Pontic Steppes when Uralic people were in all of Fennoscandia, so no Norwegians were not the first, especially in the Finnmark coast, this is a ridiculous claim to make, and we can swap colonizers to imperialist oppressors if that makes you feel better about your national identity

@Amalie Olsdatter You’re right, ”ski’s do not make an ethnic group”, but by studying the craftsmanship of the ski’s, carbon dating, comparing them to other findings and using other scientific methods we can tell the origins of the ski’s. This is how anthropology works and the same methods have been used on Norse findings. The 4-holed design, the shape of the ski’s, the ski-poles and the fact that they were built of reactionary pine wood totally sync up with findings of other Siberian/Uralic ski’s found in Fennoscandia, Northeast Europe and Siberia. The only known migrations from Siberia to central Sweden are constituted to the Uralic people and the same designs were still in use a some centuries ago by the Samic and Finnic groups. And this is were the goalpost has been moved. You’re using modern definitions of cultures to try to disprove my points, but not even staying true to this premise. The vikings who spread to the north (Hålogaland) around the 9th century are not culturally, linguistically and even genetically similar to modern Norwegians, but you still treat them as such. But i submit to your premise and i agree, since i believe you are your ancestors, even though they might differ from you in some ways, but let’s just keep the same energy towards the Sami. And again with these ridiculous claims about Norwegians being first in all of Norway, you will not find anyone that agrees with this. By studying hydronyms, toponyms, findings etc we know the old hunter-gatherer Sami, who needed huge areas of land to survive, inhabited areas all the way from Lake Ladoga to central Norway/Sweden almost 2000 years ago, i’m going to try to send you a map when i got the energy. This is when the Norse were still in Denmark and the southernmost parts of Scandinavia. Again, you can type in Kildin island in Russia, you will see how close it is to Norway and the Sami continuosly inhabited the island for over 2000 years (proved by carbon-dated findings of arrows etc.). This ancient ”siida” is the reason for the name of the ”Kildin Sami” language. And yes, northernmost Finnmark is a melting pot, but only for about less than a millenia. Kvens as we know them today (not those from ”Kvenland”) migrated from Finland starting from the 16th century and Norse people started to permanently inhabit the area way after the Viking age. Before that it was only Sami. Let’s take ”Ottar fra Hålogaland’s, the northernmost viking’s”, words: ”the only people north(east) of me are the ”Finna” (Sami) and the ”Cwena””. Aww, a cute Ben Shapiro quote to end it all, great. You might take me calling Norway colonial or imperial as insults, but those they are not, since I don’t like to insult people or their cultures. I’m guessing it’s your ”feelings” that dont handle my ”facts”... Damn I hate that quote lol.

no one said they were he only one.

@@joannechisholm4501 the documentary did say that

www.nature.com/news/ancient-genome-study-finds-bronze-age-beaker-culture-invaded-britain-1.21996

It's music. Sounds like they tried to imitate the sounds of birds.

AncestryDNA doesn't have sami in its registry it registers as "finnish"

​@Amalie Olsdatter 2000 years ago is a bit too late, dont you think? Oldest sample of haplogroup N in the far north is from 1500s BCE and the proto-Sami most likely arrived between the bronze age and the transitional period into the iron age from 1500s to 500s BCE. 2000 years ago is more fitting for the ancestors of Finns, who arrived into Finland across the gulf of Finland and the Karelian isthmus from the south around the 1st to 5th centuries CE during the Finnic migrations.

The origin of all people is Africa.

Wrong. New discoveries claim otherwise.

scott22v, Which new discoveries and claims?

Just youtube or google search "out of Africa" debunked. But like everything else, no one can say with 100% certainty. The 3 most used words in science,"than previously thought".

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One thing is that the Finnish and the Swedish terms lapp/lappalainen most likely do not share a common origin. The Finnish term lappa/lappalainen -> Lappi (Finnish name for Lapland) most likely originates from the archaic lappea word, which used to mean remote place or the edge of something meaning the Finnish terms most likely referred to the Sami (or any other semi-nomadic group in the far off wilderness, not necessarily Sami) as being people who lived in a remote place and the edge of the world to the settled Finns. This would mean that the Finnish term didn't have the connotation of them wearing "rags" for clothing. The name Lappi itself most likely didn't refer to what is Lapland in the modern day either due to most of Finland, especially the interior, outside of southern Finland and the western coastal regions being unsettled wilderness for a long stretch of Finnish history.

No they don't

@@kapper3600 Are you idiot? Penguins are from Southern Hemisphere and have nothing to do with Eurasia. 🤣

Yeah, sounds like these people don't know enough to make a documentary

100% !!!

Except Lapland as a name for the area isn't a racial slur. Now the use of "Lapp" in an offensive and derogatory way is a different case.

@@jokemon9547 using lapland when talking about Sápmi is not ideal, when talking about the regions of Sweden and Finland it is fine. There is no part of Norway that is called Lapland

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Sami culture belongs to a group of cultures that spans the entire circumpolar area and all the way down to South America. The Sami's trade routes ran mainly from west to east if you go back far enough in time. There are several common cultural markers, such as bear worship and the shaman's use of bird feathers.

Finn Wraith I had dinner with two engineers from Finland’s nuclear power station two years ago . They don’t think having relations with sami people. Maybe it’s that you finns know little about your own history far before the christianisation, but there were surely a popular/official desire to forget it, as neighbors of the powerful european civilisation. You are today definitively europeans except three things, your far history, your language and a part of your DNA.

@@user-gu7fz1wi5u We don't know about our history. But part of the reason for that is that we don't know that much about ancient Finland. Written records of ancient times aren't that many.

@@user-gu7fz1wi5u And were being screwed over by too much westernizstion m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsehqMd_0NzMlJ8.html

Im finnish and think of the sami as one of our brothers, just not as close as the baltic sea finnic tribes since the sami are isolated in their extreme location and have evolved into a very different culture with hardly any outside influence, unlike us southern people who have very much influence (especially in language) from the outside powers who have colonized and ruled over us, those people that dont agree either dont really know the history of the uralic people or worship western culture and want to distance themselves from our true origins

They are spread throughout Scandinavia and Russian borders...and are unique and aboriginal.

@@prebziboy2618 Indeed

@@prebziboy2618 scandinavian Swedes,Norwegians and Danes are also Germanic...

Norway heritage

Closes to Aramaic heritage

Which is everywhere

Divisions nations

What god?

I'm so shocked by this awful "documentary". Wtf!?