Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom

[@CreatorCade]

she's very soft spoken and has a very wise and kind voice

[@tomjones6296]

+sickmrtrick "anthropomorphic" means attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or animals....so another human being cannot be said to be anthropomorphic

[@Stinkdebollo]

+Josh Cade I need her to talk to me when I can't sleep lol

[@jamesritchie6899]

+sickmrtrick I do not think the word anthropomorphism. means what you think it means. Either that, or you're just an all around idiot.

[@TheWokeReview1]

+sickmrtrick You may want to stop getting your info wherever it is you get it. If you believe all 300 million Americans are Dumb, you are a fool. America is the most advanced nation on Earth by leaps and bounds, we are the heartbeat of the world! The internet, where you so rudely comment brought to you bu America! The cell phone you probably use to bash America, also, brought to you by America! Capitalism, The Free market, both come from America, both are elevating nations and people all over the planet!!! Both are helping feed the world. Do you think that's an accident? It is a byproduct of being a free nation. People are free to go as far as the stars, or flip burgers at a restaurant. They can come and go as they please, go where they want, say what they want and own what they want, the only limit is the limit they impose on themselves. Ameerica is a great nation that's probably helped your nation a few times! I recomend growing up, having a little respect! Then maybe come and visit, If you're allowed.

[@TheWokeReview1]

+James Ritchie why be ignorant?

[@harrykrebs]

"I am really scared that people have come too far from nature nowadays." How true.

[@OriginalPuro]

Technological addiction is no joke, not long ago did I hear a girl in a group on the ferry state that "she couldn't live without her phone for 5 seconds, seriously", and the other girls nodded and agreed. Sad times.

[@brusombear3823]

@@OriginalPuro think 100 years ago there were no grocery stores and people just hunted and farmed. how much we've lost in such a short time

[@davidzwitser7181]

@@brusombear3823 We also gained a lot. Even though I appreciate nature and ancient culture very much, we evolve, we grow, and we change.

[@sheagolob2376]

@@davidzwitser7181 until we bring about our destruction.

[@HeathenRides]

@@davidzwitser7181 we gained mostly slavehood but people doesn't recognize the forest from all the trees

[@nordicantlers5511]

What a sweet woman. I am not an emotional person by any means, but I couldn't help but almost tear up. She reminds me a lot of my great grandmother who was 100% Norwegian Sàpmi/Sami. Sadly she passed before she could teach me anything but she was a sweet lady. I'm trying to do all I can to learn about our past and keep the traditions alive. Thank you for providing this video 🖤

[@howtogetoutofbabylon8978]

Blessings on your journey!!!

[@charles2521]

"100% Norwegian Sami" makes so much sense as an "100% english Native American".

[@berlliugaritic9777]

It's wonderfully amazing tradition it's really great to go back to this athentic way of living

[@paulrudd1063]

If you tried to build a timber tipee like that here in Australia, it would become infested with snakes in no time. It shows how important it is to listen to, and learn from local indigenous people. It is all about context. What a wonderful video. Thank you for making it.

[@indoorsandout3022]

In my area, it can be built, but you must put it on a raised platform or it will rot away. It's a temperate rainforest here. I plan to build one as a guest house on my farm. I've already selected a spot to put it. Traditional houses here are raised off the ground because of floods and heavy rain. My house is on pillars so the air can get under the floor and dry it. So when I build the bealljegoahti (arched beam lodge), I'll build it on a round platform that won't catch water, so the floor will stay dry. I'll nail down the outer logs to not let them slip off.

[@samlee2562]

In Australia... everything gets infested with snakes 🥲 ...and spiders, and sharks, and crocodiles...

[@paulrudd1063]

@@samlee2562 well that’s not quite true, although we do have snakes around here which if they scratch you, you’re dead in 15-30 minutes.

[@benjamindavey4782]

I'm not an engineer, but some of the engineering behind this tee-pee is quite clever, like the idea of using branches to create hangers for shoes etc. It shows what you can do with only basic materials and a modest budget. Very smart.

[@31mcml]

I like to be reminded of the heritage of many people all over the world. This is such a beautiful way of living - living in tune with the earth. I thought it was a perfect way to teach their children about the traditions by taking the whole family (the woman's) to the woods every Sunday throughout the year and camp the ancestral way. It is a simple idea of keeping the next generation grounded in the world of their ancestors. Imagine if we could all do this to teach our children by practicing the heritage from which they are born!

[@OmmerSyssel]

Interesting how many clueless womenz are busy romanticing this sort of hardship. Actually you're the ones who's suffering the most without access to the modern comfortable achievements men has invented and made available to your sort of ordinary helpless people! Keep dreaming 🙈💤

[@thorjohannessen6256]

@@OmmerSyssel LMFAO so triggered! I love it please continue. Are you now going to tell everyone you murdered 32 people with your computer keyboard or that you personally invented the toenail clipper or the atomic bomb? 😂🤣😆🤣😂😂🤣😆 you people are delusional sheep. Typical reaction.

[@jenniferhouse1939]

@@OmmerSyssel funny its men like you who discredit a woman's ability, yet without us none of these men would have survived to make these things. Also it's not a hardship it's a craft and a way of life, something anyone can learn to live in if they want to bad enough. I find it funny you are so condescending about this woman having the ability to do this, trying to discredit women when it's you who doesn't have the fortitude

[@jspicecsn6843]

From our people, blessings and love. I am Nadee, Apache and share my all with your people

[@VAB0L0]

It makes me happy to see this lady has not only kept all of this knowledge alive, but also got to pass it down to countless others through the years.

[@caryngayfield6218]

My former neighbor was a Finnish-American and she loved talking about the Sami culture. My friend even owned a reindeer hide and kept it on her sofa. She longed to live this way of life back to Nature and everything in tune with the Great Mother! Indigenous culture and traditions rock wherever they are in the world, a great video!

[@caryngayfield6218]

@@mirebell2473 There is a movie titled Sami Blood that is about the prejudice against Sami people. The movie is heartbreaking to watch. Being born and raised in America and a mixed race person myself, I had no idea before seeing this movie years ago.

[@delainecoddington6691]

Thank you for bringing such an interesting lady and her culture to us!

[@oathboundsecrets]

My great grandad was a forest Sami ! ❤️

[@SxVaNm345]

+Voffman, There is good and bad in every family, including Indigenous cultures.

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

Voffman shut up and be proud of being german

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

Hirvaskumpu you can be nationalistic if your ethnic group is amazing

[@LaRedPDX]

Lyle German doesn’t mean Nazi. There are some Germans who were/are Nazis. But that’s sad that you think Germans in general “ARE” Nazis.

[@1lobster]

I would have her like to point out that the semi didn't exactly show up first. The Sami and European people both settled Scandinavia at around the same time, just different regions.

[@chubbyninja842]

Loved this episode. When she started talking about how the government had forbidden them from living their traditional life, it really got the activist part of my heart pumping. It's a shame government's can't just leave people alone who don't want to be ruled.

[@naz.tanzeem5982]

ZombieTe

[@stargate1935]

yes you right

[@rachelrice9266]

I'm half Sami and it makes me cry. That's a part of me, my history, my mother's history, far back.

[@whereisplain]

actually its very interesting, because in whole North America, there is the opinion of the "white invading man" when in Europe even also "white" indigenous people were harmed. It is more the time and its culture back then that just did not seem to be nature and human-friendly at all.

[@livetrueenlighten55]

@@whereisplain yes. I agree. not only white people invading, if you look at world history you see all over white and the others invading. In Japan the native people are still fighting to keep there traditions after the Japanese people took over the lands. It is important to preserve history and traditions and to live in peace and harmony. I think maybe humans are kinder, because I think long ago people would be more wiped out because the new people don't want competition. As humans, I hope we can learn to all live well together with nature.

[@SkeetRadar]

used to make huts like they do when I was a kid for fun, marsh is actually exceptionally good at insulating, I hung out in my hut in the middle of winter and it was nice and warm and cozy, very nice

[@LaRedPDX]

nerdneedscoffee Yeah “peet” was the word she was looking for. She’s so cute

[@eirin099]

peat

[@tallcedars2310]

We need to throw away the system that was created to take global control. People still live like this but it is not as romantic as this. Reality is, it's a tough life and one that is under attack by those who manipulate us. They do not want us to be self sufficient and will attack when the time is right for them. The world is their paradise in their eyes, not ours and self sufficient cultures interfere with their plan. Hold onto your traditions and learn the basics which may come in handy very soon. This is a very good video Kirsten!

[@dasein9980]

tanayah sorensen money and control. They don't want people to be self-sufficient or to be able to think for themselves.

[@morehumorehu4861]

I can only imagine of your heritage and wonder in awe of the Sami First Nations.❤

[@nicholasblackmore9604]

I do not think killing them is the solution. Happy life cannot be started that way. Did you mean something else?

[@mikemorgan5394]

Naive foolishness, The industrial revolution has fed more, healed more and improved the lives of more people than hunter gathering ever did. " living in Harmony " with the planet means people die from disease starvation and infection. Yet somehow people think that industry isn't natural or a part of the earth. pure crap.

[@GiantArtProductions]

I agree 100%!

[@Y.C.1900]

The ancient free way of living of true humanity.

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

I would love to hear old stories from her around a bonfire among the Sami people.

[@AhJodie]

Gunnel Heligfjell is a lovely teacher! I want to go there and learn some of these things! Thank you Gunnel Heligfjell and Kirsten!

[@nictheartist]

What a wonderful lady, I had never heard of this culture before. Surely there is much we can learn from native people like these.

[@artytomparis]

She s right. We belong to the earth.

[@fatfox6706]

+|| Joshua Matthew || give it a break will you! Take your chritian agenda somewhere else! I know... how about your own channel. Stop bothering people!

[@PhantomOfThePsy-Opera]

+|| Joshua Matthew || if there truly is a hell, your god is evil for punishing people who don't believe. ...if you don't believe, you cannot force yourself to believe......I dont like the taste of liver.....if I am force fed liver daily, it will not make me like it......only despise it even more!!!....force feeding people your b.s. (belief system) makes people despise it even more!!!!

[@fatfox6706]

***** you never assume. WHY? Because you make an ass out of u and me! Just because I'm bothered by zealotry and Christians that just have to bother folks dosnt mean I don't have a relationship with the Lord!

[@binzsta86]

+Tom J. Byrne -We belong to Allah Akbar...

[@TheOwenMajor]

+Tom J. Byrne Your all wrong! Praise Satan!

[@DrewClark-Solipsis]

I love the melody and tempo of this wonderful woman's voice. Kirsten Dirksen, I am so envious of your job. The joy of meeting all these resilient and talented people!

[@gabrielleb74]

Thank you Ms. Dirksen, your video's are always so interesting and very enriching. :)

[@Texasgrrl77]

Her voice is so soothing to my soul. I wish we as a people could go back to the old ways like our ancestors lived. No one knows their neighbors anymore. People are so spread out and don't rely on each other. It's a wonderful way to live I think. 💗😊✌🏼

[@hellcat9]

my god i love the sound of her voice.

[@ConsciousMechanism]

Oh how I could listen to her speak to me every day...how pleasant and beautiful...her truth touches the essence of humanity's ancient connection and purpose.

[@shaynecaesar9386]

Wow! The Sami culture is amazing!

[@tatapeping]

I felt like I was in a different world while watching this. Her voice and how you've captured it put me in some sort of a trance. Enriching and inspiring to the soul. Thank you again for taking us with you, Kirsten!

[@Weonlyknewoneway]

Sami are so inspiring. Most beautiful women I've ever seen. The west can learn alot from the Sami. We've lost our way and only through getting back to nature and tradition can we ever find our way. Thank you for this video 🙏♥

[@Zedoutdoors]

An absolutely superb video, really appreciate you sharing this ~Peace~

[@bobhead6243]

People have forgotten how to live with nature , instead of against it ., so much has been lost since my grandfather was a young man , He taught me so much when I was young , for this I am forever grateful .

[@patriciastewart2537]

I appreciate these survival culture lessons. We need these to survive!

[@Darianka7565]

This video makes me warm inside somehow ^^

[@RandomButtonPusher]

Glad to see this getting a lot of views, though it needs to get many, many more. We belong to the earth, not the earth belongs to us...a message we ignore at our peril.

[@tallcedars2310]

The earth does belong to us, we simply let bullies rule us.......

[@sharonkay2674]

Thank you Kirsten for passing on the traditional knowledge of the Saami people through this wonderful Saami woman. Wonderful!

[@Mom-Zombie]

Beautiful; quite possibly one of my favorite videos of yours yet. I'm so glad I found your channel a year ago! I'm so happy you & your family get to experience places like this, and bring such wonderful insight to the internet world. Thank you for sharing her with us!

[@dabprod]

Wow.....what a wealth of knowledge. I could listen to her all day. Simplicity......and nature. Look at what nature has to teach us.

[@kismetau]

Really admire her whole philosophy - she 's rich in wisdom & not material possessions. If we had continued to follow this thinking in the past & now, our earth would not be suffering as much as it is today.

[@fordhouse8b]

You do realize this more like an outdoor museum, not where she and her family actually live. Modern Sami reindeer herders use things like ATVs, snowmobiles, and helicopters. And they certainly don't use these kinds of huts as their residence. This is all very cute and quaint, but their ancient way of life is gone, just like it is for every other people on earth. Sami are modern people living in the modern world, not antiquarian relics for us to admire. This is not to say that the nation-states governing the areas with remaining Sami populations shouldn't recognize, in some way, their claim to ancestral lands encroached upon by the states that have swallowed them up.

[@kismetau]

+fordhouse8b there's still a lot of great things to learn from her culture regardless

[@HazzaTheFox]

WOW! I'm so glad I found this fantastic channel! And I must say Gunnel Heligfjell is truly amazing- artist, teacher, writer, clearly fluent in at least 4 languages, so knowledgable in so many useful and great living skills, AND amazing craftsmanship on her accessories. Just when I think I couldn't possibly be more impressed she then reveals yet another skill or ability. It really comes to show how little we know or are taught about the world.

[@henrikkmk]

Thank you Kirsten, a much needed video. Thank you. Please do more videos of Sapmi culture. They have suffered hard under assimiliation all over Scandinavia. Much old wisdom was lost . The traditional way of living is becoming more and more rare.

[@Dystisis]

It was Scandinavia that was assimilated into Christianity. The Sami story is just a tiny piece in that puzzle. People nowadays never speak well of Europeans, because they confuse Europeans (who are actually pagans and nature-lovers) with that Middle Eastern Abrahamic cult called Christianity.

[@kanrojidarling]

@@Dystisis do not lie. vikings accepted christianity gladly. and then they drove us from our homes, persecuted us, killed us, threatened us, and almost made our culture extinct. we have already lost hundreds of traditions and many languages to these so called nature lovers.

[@brellynmuldoon8642]

Kirsten this is probably my favorite video, that you have done, because of the added education about the Sami people.

[@therockson2]

As a swede this is lovely to see! Thanks for the upload.

[@nicholasblackmore9604]

Thank you very much for posting this Kirsten. It heals the heart and mind to see somewhere where there is peaceful living. xxx

[@melindaoa8668]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

[@rmatene]

I was instantly enthralled! The best video in the series by far. Thank you for this!!!

[@marythompson9222]

absolutely wonderful. We all need to go back to nature, it is where i belong, leaving here and on my own journey in a couple days. I am excited to use my knowledge for goodness.

[@urial57]

only just seen this but good on you Mary !!

[@aurelwink9514]

I can listen to her talk for ever, sound like my grand perents ,and its a blessing to here her talk, makes me miss my mom lol

[@burningmanmike]

thank you. this is now my new favorite episode!

[@ethnyjane3248]

What a great video! You sure found a wonderful host for this journey into the world of the Sami. Thank you!

[@gdsnuff]

Wow, this is so cool! Thank you for making this video!

[@s.j.sparber6946]

Thank you Kirsten for another beautiful gem of a docu-video!

[@zeppodude91]

Ms. Dirksen, Thank you for the excellent video. Interesting and informative. Now I have a better understanding of some of my forbearers lifestyle. Visual along with family remembrances!

[@terywetherlow5980]

Total enjoyment of Sami culture. Thank you for sharing. tee in New Mexico USA

[@guloguloguy]

Sami People have an AWESOME Culture!!! Hang on to it!!!

[@TJackSurvival]

Thank you. That was an amazing video. I want to see more!

[@happygrandma6372]

Let me join the others and say thank you for this episode. I learn a lot from them.

[@nightslayer1581]

I love her! She is so simple and wise! She reminds me of my grandma 😊

[@AnitaStewart405]

What a beautiful video. I just found out from a DNA test that I am mostly SAMI. What a surprise. I want to know more. Would love to see her narrate some books/recordings of SAMI history and traditions. A true wise woman!

[@Jaantoenen]

Thank Kirsten. What a wonderful thing you did.

[@sherry866]

I would love to spend a month with this lady and learn from her and live there ! we should all get back to the Basics !!!! wonderful video thank you kindly 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😇

[@ozdoits]

I learned so much from this video, and enjoyed every moment of it. Thank you!

[@dmiller8425]

Thank you for this video. I would LOVE to see detailed how-to videos or books of how they make things, etc.

[@clausoreskov1768]

An absolutely fantastic introduction to the old Sami lifestyle and culture. So nice, thanks for that

[@vanhooligan7532]

Thanks for posting. I have both Sami ancestral lineage from Norway and Native American so, it's interesting to see the similarities.

[@snusmumriken6091]

Cleo Ashbee BULLSHIT😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏿

[@brucemercer8441]

... Beautiful video... Also keep in mind many native peoples around the globe, from arctic(cold) to tropical(warm) have developed ways of living in their environment over centuries.... And that's beautiful thing about other cultures..... It's not about being "different", it's about living in your own environment, and making the best of what you have /had.... (past and present).....

[@ritahall8148]

When she mentioned the white reindeer, I immediately thought of the white buffalo, and I saw other similarities.

[@winterson5897]

Sami people are originally an asian race from the ural mountains (finno-ugric peoples), native americans are the descendants from an ancient asian group that migrated from eastern siberia to modern day alaska, crossing the bering strait. And since these were traditional societies, lore was passed down through the generations, from father to son, from mother to daughter. Therefore you see that the cultural links of east asians and native americans are also ancestral links, both are different branches of a common root. This has been proved by genetic studies as well, and just take a look at the inuit and other northern native american races, they are indeed very similar.

[@winterson5897]

@@brucemercer8441 Exactly, we used to love the things that made us unique, a sense of belonging to our natural habitats, the environments we are naturally adapted to live in. Nowadays though... Most people lost that, because of the unnatural lifestyles in cities, we no longer are present in a land, just "hanging around" there

[@echowit]

Absolutely enjoyable in so many ways. The interior shots and narration about the structure of the frame starting at about 6:05 are so applicable to so much more than just primitive architecture -- this is all a life-lesson as well.

[@mixedgraffiti62]

This lady was really kind :) makes me wonder what it would have been like back when people lived like this

[@ncmartinez_his]

Not sure they would have been thanking the Earth Mother for coffee. Perhaps roasted reindeer dung, delicately smoked over a smoldering death trap in your wigwam.

[@ncmartinez_his]

+Tiny Bird Productions I'm aware of how to make a beverage from chicory or dandelion roots. It's just that objectively, logically, this is not a rational individual.

[@dasalekhya]

+mixedgraffiti62 Visit Canada. Many of our *Inuit people* live like this (actually in lot harsher environs).

[@crazy808ish]

+sickmrtrick Anyone can come to conclusions by observing a person's behavior. Just like I've come to the conclusion, scrolling through the comments, that you're just a troll who wants to be contrary and argue everything.

[@crazy808ish]

sickmrtrick :)

[@1922Skidoo]

Such beautiful wisdom & a wise soul.. God bless.

[@BorysPomianek]

Excellent - I din't know anything about the Sami people - now I know a little bit and it was all fascinating!

[@andicastro1203]

Oh, Kirsten. You did it again...great film subject. Thank you.

[@TREEHUGGAH1]

MUCH RESPECT Sami Wisdom

[@LegendNeverD1es]

+Deezee meh, same mythology level as "God" created everything crap. You don't see me judging so shut up and show some respect for their culture.

[@TREEHUGGAH1]

"a white deer created the earth" DEER ARE DEAR

[@tomcollins5112]

I love this woman and her culture. Humanity living in harmony with nature. Beautiful. And so much better than humanity poisoning and killing everything on the planet.

[@Jenicosmic]

I absolutely loved this! She is super cool :)

[@didntknoicouldchangethis]

I seriously watch all of your permaculture type videos, and now I'm searching Sami culture, and I found this in your collection, randomly! I have to say, you upload some fabulous stuff...

[@bilkat5767]

the lilt in her speech reminded me of my grandmother. It was nice to hear

[@DewsySipos]

what a lovely and kind old woman! I like her natural wisdom.

[@sevensurvival]

Wise Sister, nice shelter, thanks, respect.......Seven Thunders.......

[@CT--jv2ur]

“Seven Thunders?”

[@sevensurvival]

@@CT--jv2ur My Native Name

[@ElPanchito33]

I really, honestly, enjoyed this one Miss Kirsten. Beautiful Sweet Lady.

[@sequorroxx]

I like her accent. Reminds me of people from Iceland.

[@LibertyBooksAZ]

{{{{ Kirsten }}}} Thank you for capturing this amazing way of life, in your quiet, humble, and passionate way... combined with those excellent videographic skills.... and you are introducing us to so many fabulous people!

[@NitroTom91]

In Germany we aren't even allowed to stay out in the woods over night or to make a fire without exceptional permission. Very expensive to go survival training here.. Nice video, very inspirational.

[@jonrobbin170]

This fine lady is so smart and wise I have so much respect for her and her traditions

[@primitiveskills]

I'm so thankful that you made this video. We've been working on relearning the foldaways for the expressed purpose of passing them on and keeping them alive. Please keep up the great work. Maybe we can meet you when we go to Sweden this Summer! Thanks again.

[@bernie6956]

Very well done video of a beautiful culture in which I am just recently beginning to learn more of their culture, music and struggles to keep it alive.

[@christopherellis2663]

indeed, it shall all fall down, one day. Sâmhi, Welsh spelling. If one has access to all of the outside,the inside need not be large.

[@CT--jv2ur]

It is sad, that it unfortunately, and most likely, will be like that, in the future.

[@TJackSurvival]

I've come back and watched this video many times. To me, it's just awesome.

[@KombiLife]

Headed to the Arctic real soon - need all the advice we can get. Thanks for the post

[@bonniebabird]

I first subscribed to your channel after watching you (and a helpful toddler) make dyes with plants. I noticed this new video and I thought it was beautiful! Thanks,Kirsten

[@garyjohnson9037]

climate change will bring about a greater awareness of humans connection to this earth, regardless of their beliefs, wealth or place. may your peoples oneness with this earth continue for as long as it can.

[@johne.osmaniii9768]

Very ingenuitive, self reliant, & a basic way of living, ... Take, & use things Terra provides, & yet it all comes full circle, going back into the planet, ... I remember spending hours of my youth, hoeing, & spraying in the truck patch garden of almost 2 acres, churning butter, shucking corn, snapping beans, & assisting with milking the cows, cleaning out their stalls, putting down fresh hay, baling hay, & storing it in the loft of the barn, slopping the hogs, & sending my sister to retrieve eggs from the henhouse, because they damn sure did not like my intrusion, & drawing water from the well, ... This was all done over the course of my school age years, during the 2 weeks of my stepdad's vacation, ... I learned my lessons well, & have tried to instill these same techniques into those I have come into contact with, including those not from my family, & my extended family of friends, ...

[@cadence4527]

According to my Mitochondrial DNA Marker, my ancestors were the reindeer herders of Scandinavia. I wasn't given the specifics as to which group I come from, but I yearn to learn more about the Sami, to learn about my genetic heritage and to learn their ways. Interestingly enough, I am Scottish on my father's side. When I tell people that I am Scottish/Scandinavian, they automatically think my Scandinavian ancestors were vikings that immigrated to Scotland, but my Mitochondrial Marker can only be traced to and through the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula. I am glad to have been able to watch this and to learn a little bit more about the Sami.

[@CStrailer]

In the sami world, everything is about the reindeers. Like she said, everything is made out of it, clothes, shaman drums, cups and plates and the list goes on. Dried reindeermeat is so fucking good too. But then again you have different types of Sami; you have reindeernomads and herders , forestsami, seasami and so on. But the vikings lived as far up as to "Tromsø" in Norway, which is pretty far up- so if you are from further north than that area, you are most likely from Sami/Kvæn ancestors.

[@jessekay9171]

I found out last February that I am a Sami descendant from far north of Norway. I thought my mother’s side was completely German but they actually just immigrated to Germany from Norway for about 100 yrs before immigrating to the U.S. in the late 1800’s. Our last name’s spelling was forced to be changed as soon as we got off of the boat in New York. It had to look and sound more American in order to be granted citizenship. I did an ancestry DNA test as I was always told since I was little that I had hooded blue/grey colored eyes which can be an asiatic trait. Found close DNA matches and I was able to connect with relatives in Norway who had a long pedigree of our Sami tribe that I descended from. I learned that light colored eyes that have asiatic features is a very common genetic trait. It made me feel beautiful to know that I inherited this feature from a unique ancestral tribe.

[@vetrarbloanottunni2185]

Mitochondrial dna comes from mothers. So your male ancestors from Scandinavia is for sure viking.

[@phxtonash]

She spoke with great english and great wisdom. We do belong to the earth.

[@ariesred777]

"the leftovers" so much wastage and short term planning.This lady has cultivated the inner and outer life.Understand her richness and wellbeing.

[@ScythianGryphon]

Sami people are fascinating. We should hear more about them more.

[@graceserenachristie2914]

Interesting outdoor people. My mother could bake a cake in a camp fire but she could ruin a pan over a stove just trying to boil water. LOLO One day she woke up in our tent to a Grizzly bear licking her feet. I was laying next to her and she got up and chased the bear away a crazy women in red bvds. Chasing a bear away from her child. After that she came back and I was little so I was still asleep. When I got older I told her no more camping with bears! But it is amazing how my mother only got a house in civilization because of her daughter. If she had no children she would have lived in the woods and deserts all her life. My parents conceived me while they were camping in the woods fishing in the waters..... Inside people are different. I lived in over 5 environments from Jungles to deserts to forests and my favorite is rain forests in this life. Cool video. The older Vikings built down in the dirt also and stone tables and center fire places. Now I have a friend he talks to me sometimes mentally in the older cultures they talk in feelings and thoughts over long distances. He lives in a TP tent with a fire in the middle a high cot with a leather pad and sleeping bag and he thought I was cold so he invited my soul to come see him. He is a cool person. Now I am building a house for snow myself so I wanted to see the older Sami way that is still existing. Thanks

[@Shirleymikejohn79]

This is just wonderful and what a lovely and knowledgable person Gunnel is. We would love to visit sometime.

[@kennethworde862]

Notice how she shares and honors her husband? Truly a couple!

[@jsimo1431]

Great video. Gives me more ideas about survival shelters. I wish that lady could read me to sleep every night. Such a kind soul.

[@57WillysCJ]

Sweden has not always been a great place. My grandfather was born there but was part of the great exodus to the US in the late 19th century. Although technically Swedish he was Gete. The southern tribes were at war with each other and the Sami to the north. Sad truth wherever you go in the world. This is a great example of their traditional living that I enjoy so much. Reminds me of the people in Labrador. She is right we should be taught the old ways. So much has been forgotten and ignored even in history. Few remember that there was a New Sweden next to New Amsterdam which were both north of the English colonies in the US.

[@PureVikingPowers]

I'm a geat as well living in the west of geatland :)

[@CraigAnderson-h2h]

I met the Sami as they were herding reindeer into a big yard, fenced in area, in 1969. They were very friendl, kind and generous. They invited me into their teepee. Long ago, but crystal clear in my memory, I will never forget that whole experience in Norrland.

[@samsypolt9929]

I could listen to her talk all day. She is so lovely

[@MunirMMaruf]

I felt so humble and she is so well spoken :)

[@gunnelheligfjell3878]

I think circumstanses are very different in US and Skandinavia, Sweden, where I live. We have no veterans for example. And I am an ordinary teacher in Swedish school, with ordinary salary. Retierd since 2007, but still teaching sami language.

[@erinmcmurtry5640]

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thank you, from Canada.