NORWEGIAN LAPLAND, The Enchantment Of Song - Travel Documentary

The greatest part of Lapland is to be found in Norwegian territory. And it is in Karasjok that the Sámi, or Laplanders, have their own parliament. Beyond these frontiers, the Sámi identity lives on with a lifestyle that respects ancestral customs and is perfectly in harmony with a one-of-a-kind environment. The midnight sun and midday night, aurora borealis, animistic beliefs… the Pierre Brouwers film is an exciting journey across one of Europe’s wildest regions. With three shoots in three different seasons, this documentary is one of the most comprehensive ever made of Lapland. -
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[@KathrineKathyChurchill]

I always knew one of my grandmothers family came from Sweden on my paternal side, but never guessed my maternal tribe is Sami. I am so thankful for documentaries like this so I can learn more about the people I come from. I would like to learn more about Sami shamanism and magic. I love the music and find it relaxing. It shouldn't be too hard with hundreds of cousins from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.

[@loffagood556]

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

[@Finntastic_de]

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

[@ericshroud3572]

The reindeer way of life has always been our family way of life since my early childhood. Nice to see it on a video for a change.

[@francescjosepcasti7154]

All my admiration for the Sami people, greetings from Barcelona (Catalonia).

[@gab1911]

Barcelona España saludos desde Ecuador..............

[@gentleasa5728]

Thank you for this❤️. Recently I learned these people are my ancestors. As an American white child, who always revered the American Indian way, over the urban sprawl. I now see why! Those drums awaken my soul

[@detroitfettyghost8492]

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

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

The Sami people are white.

[@WhoopDePoopDeScoop]

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.

[@gentleasa5728]

@sherry hodges Hello there cousin💖

[@dontworrybehappy1942]

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

[@drainmonkeys385]

You have to have balls of steel..to be Sami..the fortitude that it takes to live up there and to thrive requires each individual to have inner strength that few have

[@melaniesmith3954]

I have studied Mayan, Inca and Chinese shamanism. It is so amazing that all around the world shamanism has similarities. universal experiences that repeat globally by shamans around the world, great film. Love the music and the cultural history. Thank you

[@bbutterfly36]

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!

[@bbutterfly36]

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

[@ShaareiZoharDaas]

Lap is a deragatory word used by missionaries. The nation is Saami

[@Finntastic_de]

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!

[@taily89]

It’s like how people call Hellas for Greece

[@ericshroud3572]

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.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Lapadarian, what I was told

[@garnerjoyce606]

Jewel

[@spiritof6986]

Yoik makes my soul cry out.

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

It makes sense that my Sami grandmother consulted Mexican curanderas then when my father was a little boy. He wrote a book and one of his memories was visiting the shaman when I'll. Her family was offered citizenship in the USA in the early 1900's. She never told us a thing about her heritage ever. I found out by happenstance. I can lasso a horse!! Lol But I learned that here in Mexico where eventually I ended up growing up.

[@loffagood556]

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.

[@Melissa-YupMelissa]

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

[@loffagood556]

@@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.

[@Melissa-YupMelissa]

@@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.

[@rrpearsall]

@@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..

[@heimskur]

To say you can "become Sámi" (2:48) by speaking our language, it not accurate in any way. You can never just become Sámi. To be registered with the Sámi parliament (Sámediggi) and vote in Sámi elections, you must have a parent or grandparent that spoke a Sámi language, and speak a Sámi language yourself and identify as culturally Sámi. There are people who self-identify as Sámi, but are not entitled to vote in Sámi parliamentary elections because of cultural erasure and ancestral shame. It's a tricky subject.

[@MrDuollja]

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.

[@shinettepietryga6971]

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

[@Finntastic_de]

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.

[@ericshroud3572]

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.

[@drainmonkeys385]

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

[@laurammoon]

I have for a long time wanted to learn more about this part of my heritage but it disappeared from my family generations ago. This was very exciting to come across!

[@Rocio1988]

The Sami culture is so fascinating, I hope that continues to preserve for long time. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@logical.3225]

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.

[@Melissa-YupMelissa]

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

[@ShadowValleys]

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

[@atu6214]

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

[@atu6214]

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

[@georgieporgie6454]

Never say Laplander. To a Sami

[@user-qt8eu7jp6k]

The earliest Germanic peoples (swedes and norwegians) Traded and lived alongside the samis long before the birth of christ.The samis were holy and still are.

[@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast]

WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE SUN⚔🪓

[@gentleasa5728]

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

[@ahkkariq7406]

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.

[@albinaparrik572]

Thank you for documentary !! I learned a lot about Sami people !! Love it so much !! My best wishes for all your people , you are wonderful !!

[@tundra.runner]

Thank you for this wonderful report that brings back very good memories.

[@giuseppersa2391]

2021 here..This is an absolutely stunning documentary on a fascinating People!

[@braeutchen41]

The music is haunting.... I AM Christian but NOT Catholic. The "sky" IS full of spirits.....the 2nd heaven is presently the abode of most of the fallen angels.....we are instructed in the Word of God NOT to seek any "discussions" w them.... But this absolutely IS possible.....and one way still is shamanism. Your film is wonderful. I love seeing the reindeer and the native games.....and the singing was beautiful......👋🏻😃💝

[@vamkhivlauj7132]

Sami is slowly getting converted without being aware through money and Christianity system. This is how they get every Native people.

[@0mgskillz96]

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

[@vamkhivlauj7132]

@@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.

[@0mgskillz96]

@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

[@0mgskillz96]

@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

[@0mgskillz96]

@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.

[@noorakassinen2940]

Few fact corrections: The half domisticated reindeers are not thread to ecosystem in relations to cars, roads and the mining, to name a few. One should drive with extreme carefulness or enjoy Lapland via bike. Not via flying as the document suggests.

[@emackb1457]

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

[@noorakassinen2940]

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

[@bbutterfly36]

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...

[@ellesky2396]

wonderful documentary!!! thanks a lot

[@matthewsaxman1028]

That song the men were singing was "All For Me Grog", about a sailor who is poor because he spent all his money on liquor 😄

[@applesun14]

To all you Sami, go visit Sarawak, Borneo and listen, see, how similar your culture are to the Ibans of Sarawak. Amazing!

[@warezguy4ever]

i belong to the out dead forest saami in Anundsjö parish in north ångermanland the last southest forest saami tradition that out dead 1880 it was my ancestor Nuenjettemie Niila Piera...1804-1880

[@atu6214]

RIP our Ugric cousin sami

[@drainmonkeys385]

My heritage is in part Sami... I see they have the best unspoiled land left in the world ..

[@ludivinewittenberg3878]

It was beautiful 👍👍Love it❤

[@lonewolf277]

Ty ,This was so Beautiful!

[@MrSirDrew]

Lovely, hope they manage a way of remaining viable and prosperous.

[@michellemurphy658]

Excellent documentary.

[@fasx56]

The Sami struggle to keep the traditions and culture alive with the pull of the modern world coming at them from so many areas. Are the young people staying with their culture or are they moving to the more populated areas.? I was pleased they speak English.

[@pdpaxpv]

Helps with tourism I guess.

[@loke1555]

In Norway, most Sami live in the capital Oslo

[@jaxamilius5237]

reindeer is love... reindeer is life...

[@4myearzonly]

I get why Metal is so popular there! Love to the ancestors!

[@janatmatembe4765]

I love the voice and explanation. Simple

[@warezguy4ever]

my grandmother shamed over her saami heritage...she never heard that her grandmother had saami silver stored home, her parents didnt had saami clothes, they had normal farmers clothes. Strange..

[@ahkkariq7406]

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.

[@rolfen89]

Showing a snowmobile race with only 2 stroke snowmobiles and saying as a comment at 18:53 "the introduction of 4 stroke engines reduced the scooters noice and polution" does not fit at all..... This video is so uncorrect in many ways. Seems very much as a patriotism video in my opinion. You may ask me: why do you bother? Well becauce im from Kautokeino!! Born and raised here. Its not all candy and sunshine, but your way of putting the facts on the table overall this video doesnt really give the real facts about some of the scenes shown in this video...

[@trainrover]

Lapland's enchantment is what caught my attention as far back as nursery school 🍸

[@meelusine]

Long live Sámi !

[@dhss333]

Truly great, naturally warm, friendly people.

[@hhhhhhhfjjrjrjrjrirh148]

They look pretty cold to me

[@officialVozie100]

I'm apache I love my Sammi

[@gavinvincent9526]

I really want to visit

[@ericastier1646]

The Sami enchantment songs is the best part. I wish i played longer.

[@Judi7Caroler]

I found out through AncestryDNA that I have Norwegian Sami in me. Interesting! I thought I was Danish.

[@hhhhhhhfjjrjrjrjrirh148]

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

[@MCiliberti1]

Lapland is a racial insult. It is the equivalent of the “N” word for African Americans. My Saami grandmother found it very upsetting. Our family were reindeer people. My fathers first language was Saami.

[@jokemon9547]

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.

[@david82633]

@@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

[@alvegutt42]

i used to go on summer break to family in the northern norway every year of my childhood. i did not work, only played pokemon, and i slept like a baby. but good curtains are important yes..

[@xwiirastusx]

The Sami are hardly the only indigenous people in Europe. Take the Seto for example. The unifying factor, however, is that they are both of Finno-Ugric or Uralic origin.

[@joannechisholm4501]

no one said they were he only one.

[@david82633]

@@joannechisholm4501 the documentary did say that

[@kristeenanderson1535]

an FYI "The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi" This documentary seems to be a colonizer pov

[@david82633]

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

[@bbutterfly36]

100% !!!

[@joannechisholm4501]

I'm from the UK im received from the Bel beaker people

[@joannechisholm4501]

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

[@Shamannoid]

hello al brothers and sisters, most say this is the norden Sami but we are also lule sami difrint kostum and the sout sami diferent kostym. Please remember this film isabaut the Nord Sami.

[@hank4920]

They have teepee tents and they're singing like North American Indians.

[@annk1019]

I would like to live like this in 2022!

[@anthonytroisi6682]

I am interested in the Sami traditional dress. Was the clothing made of fur? Is the the trim embroidered? Did the Sami ever interact with the Inuit or did each group develop the use of dog sleds separately? If the Sami were able to domesticate reindeer, could the deer of North America be domesticated?

[@ritchyrich914]

Only have one Sami friend.....she is the nicest old lady I've ever met....

[@dorinmotz6673]

Wonderful video!

[@valeriacitera4257]

0:00 best beat!

[@secretagentonaroll]

it is disresctful towards sapmi to call them norwegian. they are their own people,. thank you for the video, i am nor i love sapmi and they hve been tortured alot. i love you amen

[@timmymcjimmy4867]

very good music

[@atu6214]

Sami land* not norwegian lapland.

[@sarathobe4285]

this "documentary" is from decades ago. You guys know this, right?? These people know nothing about the Sami.

[@NordicSami]

The windmills are not wanted. They don't balance out anything. They need to be removed.

[@vaughangarrick]

It's amazing how american indian culture resembles this north european culture....my point is to everyone, stop being arrogant and understand that we all share a common background

[@ahkkariq7406]

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.

[@deniswilson8152]

Watch the classic"THE PATHFINDER"

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

My ancestors.

[@killavision4068]

26:44 "and films about the far north are shown..." lol penguins live in the far South😂

[@kapper3600]

No they don't

[@metehankanmaz8805]

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

[@user-gu7fz1wi5u]

The Finns call themself « Suomi », but deny that they have cultural and genetical relations with Sami people. Suomi and Sami are obviously from the same root. They are neighbors since thousands of years and their languages are attributed to the same branch/family. Finns and Sami peoples’ languages and culture originally from North Asia. Some remained proofs are: the tents are similar with those used by North Asian people and by Indian people; they have the Saman as religion and use saman drums... The original asian people have mixted with the european white people, the same history as the turkey and magyar peoples but two thousand years later.

[@user-gu7fz1wi5u]

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.

[@finnwraith4293]

@@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.

[@finnwraith5319]

@@user-gu7fz1wi5u And were being screwed over by too much westernizstion m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpLUppeEoNubms0

[@0mgskillz96]

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

[@bbutterfly36]

I'm confused....how are they the only ones in Europe?? There are many indigenous people in Europe, including the people from northern Spain, Ireland, etc. please correct me if I'm wrong?!

[@detroitfettyghost8492]

My family is from Seljax Parish, Njorfjord, Norway, I live in the asshole of the earth now Detroit, Michigan, USA, although I do not know of any Saami in my heritage I do find the culture to be so amazing and hope all Sami people work hard to hold onto what's left of their culture, modernization will only further hurt it I think, I hope I'm wrong. Much love to all my Scandinavian people's!

[@garnerjoyce606]

Respect & responsibility

[@garnerjoyce606]

Parents 👍

[@garnerjoyce606]

Families 👍

[@garnerjoyce606]

I believe in marriage though difficult decisions

[@garnerjoyce606]

For some though others know for sure

[@cybernit3]

I love who these people are; but they are like DUTCH (low Nordic).... I love and respect their culture!...

[@ShaareiZoharDaas]

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

[@antoinebeauman]

@@prebziboy2618 Indeed

[@atu6214]

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

[@aleciafrazier407]

Sounds like the song of the indigenous in North America.

[@drainmonkeys385]

It seems that the Sami are the last of the white Tribes to have not assimilated entirely into a larger culture...

[@katierogers5936]

Lap was used to describe the native people’s clothing - it means rags. Sami call the land Sampi.

[@jokemon9547]

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.

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

I only recently learned that Sami had been enslaved to work in mining. I intend to learn more about it, when it happened and how long it lasted. I doubt they rec'd reparations, but 'll find out about that too, The people are far into modernity than I imagined.

[@drainmonkeys385]

At 48:30. I imagine a giant kraken reaching up and grabbing them never to be seen again

[@themagnus2919]

I found it very suprising how different the sami are from the norse people.

[@jokemon9547]

​@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.

[@artemisadida]

What is that sound at the min 42:00 ?? Nice video, btw!

[@ahkkariq7406]

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

[@Axlotl77]

Santa Claus is a Saami, wears red and white, has elves, and reindeer pull his sled!

[@frankleon-guerrero6331]

Are the Laplanders any relations to the White Tribe in one of the Japanese Islands? Of course it seems as if they are also connected to the Some of the Native Americans, and the Native Americans all seem to come from different origins. I believe they hold a major key in our ancient societies. My big question is, where did the other whites of Europe really from? All this is so incredibly fascinating! Thank you!

[@saraswatkin9226]

The origin of all people is Africa.

[@scott22v]

Wrong. New discoveries claim otherwise.

[@saraswatkin9226]

scott22v, Which new discoveries and claims?

[@scott22v]

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".

[@joannechisholm4501]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3yqaZKad8Ssd6M

[@r.v.b.4153]

22:42 That's a straight up lie xD. Different language, genetics and lifestyle. Part of the Saami's ancestry.

[@Skelldr]

Penguins in the north??? Some of these statements are just weird and very wrong.

[@KeeRaSha]

Save the lichens!

[@garnerjoyce606]

USA has always known though not talked about till next generation necessary

[@garnerjoyce606]

Not always for me alcohol, occasionally

[@bbutterfly36]

"their origins are still not clear"???? How much further back do you need to go to admit their origins IS sapmi?!? This documentary keeps pissing me off...why am i still watching it?!

[@garnerjoyce606]

Science

[@garnerjoyce606]

Norway heritage

[@garnerjoyce606]

Closes to Aramaic heritage

[@garnerjoyce606]

Which is everywhere

[@garnerjoyce606]

Divisions nations

[@chumycepeda4248]

The Enchantment of Song Sound like the American Indians.

[@warezguy4ever]

So old words for sami is finn? its a lot of finnmark in sweden...

[@rachelnelson6941]

This is not a reputable source for Sami people, this is some colonizer show-dog dehumanising bullshit and the same rhetoric and type of shit that had us in zoos Please check sources and consider bias of the content creator when consuming media especially when it is educational or you are absorbing it as such I’m sorry but this video is scary and the comments are mortifying

[@bbutterfly36]

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

[@gretchenhangleton9603]

So funny. "Oh goodness, so unbelievably cold living above the arctic circle!" Meanwhile getting the same winter as most of Canada, over 1500 km SOUTH of the arctic circle., complete with northern lights.

[@TheLevkara]

Sami

[@SonOfFloki]

"Lapland" is one of the most disrespectful, racist terms you can use in regards to the Sami. Please change the title...

[@georgieporgie6454]

Because we are opposite

[@BranJo23199]

I recently found out from ancestry dna i am sami

[@themagnus2919]

Christians- "Believe in our one God OR ELSE"!

[@benjamindavey4782]

"Films about the far north"- showing... penguins.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Carbon culture

[@donaldcarlson8256]

All people gravitate toward modern living conditions. No reason for any group to live in the past. Keep a few relics around if you are nostalgic. I'm sure the people wearing skins had modern underwear and socks.

[@plumeria66]

They remind of elves.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Skul

[@derekintheph8935]

Santa was a mushroom

[@timmymcjimmy4867]

worship god only not the sun

[@thegreen.6986]

What god?