The Geography of Lapland explained

[@CarreRan_]

The coastal regions of Norway, all the way to Kirkenes, was settled by Norwegians long before the first Samí ever arrived in the country interior. We Samí arrived when the larger ice sheets melted, which was after the northern migration up the coastal lands. As a Samí I don't object to the term "Lap", nor do I (or any Sami I know) have any yearning for an independent Sapmí. Proud to be Sami, proud to be Norwegian :)

[@Sondre_Husby]

Tror su har feil der hva flere bølger med samer som kom første hva når isen nede ved havet smeltet så kom de sjø/isveien fra Kolahalvøya er blitt funnet gamle sametufte på sállan som går tilbake 20 til 30 tusen år og sállan er på grensen mot troms hva ikke mulig og komme nordover sørfra pga. Fjellene og isen der ved Lofoten

[@amadeuz819]

This is where the issue in history usually confuses people. Scandinavians and Finno ugric people came later but Scandinavians only inhabited the southern parts of Sweden and Norway first plus Åland and some other islands. So there are maps whit the Finno Ugric people are marked on most of today's Sweden and Norway. There is lots of theories about who was first but when Sweden was formed the central part of the Scandinavian peninsula is marked with "Suomi" while main Finland is marked with another name. What they all agree with is that the Finno Ugric people came from the east and Scandinavians from the South. Old maps show that the Finno Ugrian culture was the majority of Fenno Scandia and Scandinavian only existed in the Southern parts. Then happened a lot of fighting, reproducing/mixing, Christianity and Inbreed Ruling. So today only the Saami are more different in the genes and culture while the Finns do still carry the higher % of light colored hair and eyes but that's about all. Christianity did a cruel number on our cultures but the Saami was spared. My point is that your information is probably the first people that lived there because I am sure they didn't see themselves as Norwegians or even spoke a Germanic language and if their genes still exist in the gene pool today they might have been "converted"/merged. If we all start to appoint today's country name to the first person that existed in our lands then sadly that means that your and my people have Russian origin so there is a difference between the first person and when your culture arrived. So yes the Finno Ugric culture did arrive there before the Scandinavian(according to my knowledge Norway is of the Scandinavian people).

[@amadeuz819]

Like there even exists a Theory that the Finno Ugric people lived in Europe even before Indo Europeans and were pushed away, but if there ever existed evidence of our true past I am sure the church made sure to make it go "poof". Stumbled on many theories when trying to learn more.

[@4seiken-594]

Svenska samer hatar att bli kallade lapp och tror också de tjatar om nån form av självständighet

[@ludvighauger5044]

​@@amadeuz819 Vad? The germanic people originated in southern scandinavia, and we arrived in the north of scandinavia around the same timeperiod, prior to christanisation, many areas which one could consider part of the north, or "lappland" were already ethnically swedish or norwegian (Trondelag, jamtland, the coast up to umeå, the norwegian coast, etc) The theory that the finnno-ugrics lived in europe before indo-europeans is false, indo-europeans ORIGINATE in Ukraine, and most scholars believe the finno-ugrics have connection to asia. Hell, the finno--ugric haplogroup is related to east asian ones!

[@thulex]

This video has so many errors and misconseptions that it would be tedious to correct them.

[@FulmenTheFinn]

Amen to that. As a native Finn by the way, I can say that no-one here uses the Finnish equivalent for Lapplander with any negative connotations. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't have any other meaning than being a synonym for Sami people. It's white leftists who come up with all this bullshit about getting offended on behalf of minorities, who themselves couldn't care less. Then they start renaming things, and people blindly go along with it, even buying into their crap, like this channel.

[@-AxisA-]

​@@FulmenTheFinn Joo en oo itekkään kuullut, että sanalla "Laplander" (mikä se on suomeksi, Lappilainen vai?) Olis joku negatiivinen tarkoitus, mutta voihan sitä sanoilla alunperin olla ollut joku negatiivinen tarkoitus, joka on meiltä moderneilta ihmisiltä jäänyt pois käytöstä.

[@FulmenTheFinn]

​@@-AxisA- Etymologialla ei ole väliä, vaan nykykontekstilla. Onhan meillä kirosanojakin, jotka ovat alkujaan tarkoittaneet jotain aivan muuta. Nykykontekstissa Lappi, lappilainen sen enempää kuin lappalainenkaan ei ole negatiivinen, vaikka varsinkin jälkimmäisestä tietyt tahot kovasti yrittävät väkisin vääntää jotain muuta, kuin mitä se on, eli pelkkä synonyymi saamelaiselle. Tämä ilmiöhän on jo nähty sanojen ryssä, neekeri ja mustalainen kanssa, ja valtavirta on lähtenyt sirkukseen mukaan. Kieli tietysti elää, mutta onko se sitten kielen luonnollista elämistä kun joku pieni vähemmistöryhmä (lähinnä valkoihoiset äärivasemmistolaiset) kirkuu jostain sanasta, että se on rasistinen ja kymmenessä vuodessa pakottaa vähemmistön tyrannialla muun >95% kansasta käyttämään jotain aivan muuta sanaa? Ei minusta.

[@Fabsu93]

​@@-AxisA- ennen vanhaan saamelaisia kutsuttiin lappalaisiksi mitä pidetään nykyään halventavana nimenä. Lappilaisessa taas ei ole mitään negatiivista ja sillä viitataan kaikkiin niihin jotka elävät Lapissa.

[@-AxisA-]

@@Fabsu93 Kiitti muistutuksesta, kyllähän mä oon sana lappalainen kuullut aikasemmin, mut en kyl tiennyt, että sillä oli joku negatiivinen tarkoitus.

[@dmr6640]

I like to watch geographic documentary like this, but not if they are inaccurate. I would like to know what is correct information and what is wrong information. The format is very good.

[@Draktand01]

Just to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with calling the Swedish historical landskap and the modern Finnish region Lappland instead of Sapmi. Sapmi is a term with clear Sami nationalist connotations, while Lappland is more of a formal name for these specific national subdivisions. Essentially, this means the word Lappland has as much to do with the Swedish/Finnish states and peoples (in modern times) as it has to do with the Sami people, while Sapmi essentially only has Sami connotations. Also, if you wonder why I didn’t call both Swedish and Finnish Lapland ”regions”, it’s because while the official term (in Swedish at least) for both areas is called by the same subdivision name (last I checked), which is ”Landskap” (Landscape), the Landskap subdivision type hasn’t been in practical political use for hundreds of years in Sweden, while Finland still uses it to this day last I checked. Essentially, today’s Sweden uses the ”Region” type subdivision (which is essentially a collection of kommuner, or municipalities in English), and the regional council is responsible for healthcare, public transit, and regional planning. Meanwhile, the landscape type subdivision, while essentially being on the same size scale as the region type, is essentially only used for ceremonial purposes, such as declaring a prince the duke of a landskap, or for local identity purposes, like when a town has been added into a region for the sake of practicality, but the locals still consider themself as a part of the cultural heritage of the landskap rather than their political subdivision. Funnily enough, tve Skåne landskap had such strong cultural ties that the two län (old political subdivision) making up the area at the time ended up reuniting into the modern Skåne Region. Back on the topic of Swedish Lappland, the political sibdivision that the Lappland Lanskap is goverened by is called ”Region Norrbotten”, which basically consists of Swedish Lappland and the two coastal Lanskap bordering it. So essentially, Swedish Lappland as a term is only ever used by locals, weather forecasts, royalty, schools, and so on. The politicians and lawyers ever only call the area Norrbotten unless the context calls for the use of the landskap subdivision. This wasn’t done in an attempt to appease the Sami people mind you, but through sheer historical convenience. So it is fine to calm Swedish Lappland by its name, just don’t call the Sami ass ”Lapps” as it is not only derogatory, but it also erodes their identity by using an exonym with strong ties to a Swedish national subdivision. Essentially, the general political consensus in Stockholm as far as I’m aware is that the Sami people are a part of the greater Swedish nation, while simultainiously being their own fully fledged nation. If a Swedish Ssmi person wants to be considered Swedish, that’s fine, and if they don’t, that’s fine as well. Of course, there tension between the Sami people and the Swedish government are still very much an issue, so don’t be misled by my earlier paragraph.

[@allaboutperspective650]

I was born in Holland but lived for 30 years in Skåne, 2.5 years ago I moved to Jokkmokk in Lapland. The younger Sami people find it indeed very derogatory when you call them Lapp, the older generation mostly don't have such a problem with it. I know many Sami people my age (64) and older who say Lapp themselves and when I talk with them I often say Lapp also because that is what I learned when I grew up.

[@StewGuy]

Ain't that deep. It's called Sapmi.

[@MemphiStig]

@@allaboutperspective650 I've found a similar thing here with Native Americans. I grew up calling them Indians, and the ones I've known over the years called themselves that too. (Like the woman who married my dad's brother and gave him 6 kids.) But they were all as old as or older than me. For most of my life, tho, I've called them Native Americans, but now I hear people call them First Nations. And I don't know any of them now, so idk what they think, tho tbh, I don't think they have any more input into it now than they ever did. What I do see are a whole bunch of people who aren't them arguing about it.

[@MRtapio5]

​@@StewGuyexactly. It's not that deep. It's called lapland

[@StewGuy]

Its called Sapmi, we were here before Germanics named it Lapland.@@MRtapio5

[@zelda533]

As a person off sapmi heritage myself i see National development and bulding of mines that will benefit the entire nation as more important then keeping nomadic traditions

[@PerfectBrEAThER]

This is very far from current Scientific consensus. Which is something like this: " Prehistoric periods of Northern Finland: Stone Age: Eastern European hunter-gatherers arrive (8500-1900 BCE). Bronze Age: Siberians arrive (1900-500 BCE). Iron Age: Sami people arrive (500 BCE-1300 CE). Middle Ages and Modern Era: Finns arrive (1300 CE-). The Siberian newcomers during the Bronze Age could not have spoken Uralic language yet, because Uralic language spread to Northern Siberia only with the Samoyedic people thousands of years later, and because at the time of migration, Proto-Uralic was still spoken in a small area far from Northern Siberia. Regardless of the language of the Siberian newcomers, the more original language of the Lapland population probably prevailed, which was inherited either from the indigenous people or the Comb Ceramic culture. Based on the phonetic features visible in the substrate loanwords adopted from lost languages, it seems that Lapland spoke a similar language to the south, all the way to the Upper Volga region, before the arrival of the Sami languages. It is possible that the early precursor of the Sami languages arrived in Southern Finland around 1000 BCE, but it must have arrived there at the latest in the early Iron Age, because the Sami languages have loanwords that prove continuous contacts with the Germans. Paleo-Germanic, Proto-Germanic, Northwest Germanic, and Proto-Scandinavian loanwords were borrowed roughly between 500 BCE and 500 CE, and almost all of them were adopted before the spread and development of Late Proto-Saami into daughter languages." Bing AI translation of "Sodankylän ja Lapin väestöhistoria" (2.9.2023 alkuperasivusto_fi) Urho Kekkonen National Park / álbmotmeahcci 👴 Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 - 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. Bortset fra det, en rigtig god video.

[@brandonvasser5902]

Next thing you know Russia will be making a claim on Finland

[@JohnOriginal81]

Wouldn't be the first time. The underdog Finns beat the invading Soviets back in the 1940's. Check out this legend... Simo Häyhä

[@karsteinmartinsen489]

No. max 2000 year ago

[@allaboutperspective650]

@@karsteinmartinsen489 Way before the Sami people came there were already people living in the north of Scandinavia, people have been here since the Stone Age.

[@karsteinmartinsen489]

@@allaboutperspective650 ...Yes i now..11500 years ago.Tromsø area

[@lemetma]

Háliidan giitit su gii ráhkadii video, go dat ovddida sámi áddejumi miehtá máilmmi!🤩

[@lemetma]

I would like to thank the creator of this video, because it expands the understanding of Sápmi and the Sámi throughout the world!🤩

[@Jo-Heike]

It's shocking how political the comment section of this video is. It's also interesting how many people are coming differing facts and correction.

[@williswameyo5737]

It is the historical land of the Sami, a nomadic people of the Uralic language group, they are distantly related to the Finns and Estonians

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

My best friend just got back from vacation in Finnish and Norwegian Lapland last week!

[@jubmelahtes]

There's no such thing as Norwegian "L*pland" its all called Sápmi "lapp" is a derogatory term so calling our land as such is wrong

[@oetiainen]

Ruotsalaiset ja norjalaiset käyttivät saamelaisista nimeä finn, silloin aikanaan.

[@midloran]

​@@jubmelahtesHey what about 'Sami' ? I heard people called it without P

[@NoanNorvang]

​@@midloranSápmi is the region while Sami is used to say something is Sami, like if someone is from Norway we say "he is Norwegian" instead of saying "he is Norway"

[@zoom5024]

@@jubmelahtes blurring out lapland like it is a curseword. It's literally what the region is called in Sweden and Finland. Stop being such a snowflake.

[@jamesg2382]

Thank you. Nice music with headphones on.

[@CaptainBoban]

As a Swede, with my fathers side being of sapmi background this video does not make sense from either a swedish perspective or a sapmi perspective.

[@erikhesjedal3569]

"Nature reserves and wilderness areas" They are avenues for Russian Military to take. They day The Russians come all those areas are pre-sighted with artillery. Thay cannot get through those areas but its equally difficult for a northern army to reach any important installations in north Russia

[@williswameyo5737]

He mentioned fjell or fell, Norwegian word for mountain

[@Luredreier]

0:52 The southern border in Trøndelag is somewhat disputed in this regard. There's no doubt that they've lived in partd of Trøndelag since before us Norwegians did. But first of all, there where s previous people here before either of us. And secondly we and they picked different areas to settle from the start, both due to having different preferences and due to the Norse having a military and population advantage due to our farming and metal works and of course warrior culture. 1:07 Not the north kingdoms. The *Norse* kingdoms. Norse and north are two very different things. 1:24 That's news to me. Although it's possible that this is something people associate with the word further north... But "Lapp" is definitely a exonym instead of a endonym, and should be avoided for that reason as well. 1:41 While your previous map included tók much in the south this one includes too little. The Sami people populated the inland areas before we did. Our ancestors where a seafaring people of farmers, displacing the previous hunter gatherers of the region along the coast, but the Sami where better hunters and later raindeer herders so they settled lands further away from the coast long before we or anyone else did. The parts of the coast that wasn't suitable for agriculture could be settled by either of us first as both cultures practiced fishery. Our ship building technology gave us a edge though early on, although the two groups merged along the coast into essentially modern Norwegians for the most part, although some still identify as sea Sami people. 2:36 Fell? Do you mean fjell? Fjell is the Norwegian word for mountain. 5:32 I think you're mixing up Sweden and Norway here. Sweden got the mining, Norway the windmills, remember we're in the windy side of the Norwegian mountains, exposed to the winds from the sea.

[@Legpierna]

Good video mate, glad you showed up on the recommended feed.

[@FactSpark]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@LalehanLale]

It is said that these people were Turks as they were seen at the north of Ural mountains first a little bit before the said date...

[@bennorwood8433]

I feel that the title of this video is wrong because it really is called Lapland and the tribe didn’t name it their name

[@NoanNorvang]

What do you mean by this statement, we call this region Sápmi so we do have a name for it in our language

[@erni2619]

I love Lappland

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

Im about to get my Lapp on n get the Lapp on outta here. Lappitty Lappity Lapp Lapp Laaaaaaaappp Lap Lap Laaaaaaaappp!!!!

[@crissdiamond1907]

LAPP doesn’t mean that in Swedish… Lapp = patch in English!

[@NoanNorvang]

Lapp is also a derogatory term that is used like the n word against the Sami

[@crissdiamond1907]

@@NoanNorvang not even close… LAPP is a nickname due they come from Lappland in northen part of Sweden!

[@NoanNorvang]

@@crissdiamond1907 no it's true, I'm Sami and have personally been called a "jævla lapp" and just like the n word is offensive to black people, lapp is considered offensive to us

[@BurnBird1]

​@@crissdiamond1907It's a literal slur in Swedish.

[@crissdiamond1907]

@@BurnBird1 I am Swedish and the only slur is the curse before Lapp… there are not only the Sami people that live in Lappland(⏪️spelled in swedish)… there is a rivalry in districts around Sweden and I think all of them has a short name of the district they come from or even citys.

[@akeke1]

Thanks!

[@Qsen123]

only about 2% of sami own reindeer. I doubt the 98% would object to modern industry because of the 2%'s reindeer

[@lemetma]

It’s not only about reindeer though? It is fragile nature, cultures, and ecosystems. Indeed living in electrically warmed houses, watching videos on the internet with my magic handheld machine and cooling food is comfortable. However I know we waste way too much resources and energy as a society. We need to learn from each other for a sustainable future. Why do we always expand, without thinking about how to preserve? Why do we always need something new, when the old thing worked fine? Why do we build more power stations, instead of making the exiting infrastructure more effective? Why not use every building as its own power station? As its own water source? The flushed water and rainwater could be treated and reused.

[@Qsen123]

@@lemetma well if youre so passionate about it why are you still living comfortably using your phone. I said reindeer because thats what the video claimed to be the reason

[@JanMaranCrazyface]

@@lemetmait’s almost always about the reindeers. The herders have completely hijacked the movement and painted a picture of the Sami culture to be just about them. The amount of power this tiny group of a few hundred people holds over millions of their countrymen is staggering. Imagine being given the power to veto any private or public initiative for development that doesn’t benefit you personally. That’s literally what’s happening. If the herders got their way it wouldn’t be people in Sapmi, just tame reindeer.

[@KnightDarkness-bv1ei]

Incorrect, the norsemen were here before the Samis.

[@mattias3668]

The Samis were not the first people in the area, it was already populated by the Norsemen, albeit sparsely. They are called indigenous, not because the were the first to be there (they were not), but because they were already their when the nations were formally formed. These narrative that the Samis where the first people in the area is some fairly new rasist propaganda.

[@TeoDP7]

There’s a video game character who’s name was literally named after this region lol

[@ggf_andyfox1946]

Who

[@TeoDP7]

@@ggf_andyfox1946 lappland saluzzo, Arknights

[@erni2619]

​@@TeoDP7best character! (disclaimer: I am one among the Lappland cultists)

[@mattias3668]

You sure he isn't named after the Greek letter? (Note that this dude misspelled Sámpi, and spelled it like the Greek letter Sampi.)

[@williswameyo5737]

This land overlaps Norway, Sweden and Finland, I rather call the land Sapmi, The word Lappland seems derogatory as mentioned

[@Hjovn]

Fjell, not Fell

[@isuckatbedwars2342]

Ok, I live in mountain

[@karilamminpaa8987]

I believe it's fell in English, fjäll in Swedish...and tunturi in Finnish 🙃

[@Bubajumba]

@@karilamminpaa8987 Fjell means mountain

[@ArftrooperT]

All the Native Sami that I've met are rather neutral on the derogatory nature of the word laplander. Maybe some people find it offensive, that ones ive met didnt.

[@elias71101]

It's just old fashioned. As long as it's used in good faith and not used as an insult no one cares. Today Laplander would probably be more correct to someone from the Lapland region regardless of ethnicity.

[@WeirdAwesomeGeography]

Great video! You deserve more subscribers, I subbed! :D Keep it up!

[@iron2998]

It is more correct to use sapmi because it's not called lappland in Norway. Lappland is the swedish and finnish territories and dosen't include norway

[@ahkkariq7406]

The Norwegian counterpart is "Finn", as in the Norwegian land area of ​​Finnmark. To make the confusion total, Finn/Fin is also used for Finland and Finns. I therefore agree that it is best to use the term Sápmi.

[@Theuon9583]

I am actually pissed of that everyone talks this as this way that sami are completely different tribe than finnish people. In the viking age norse people talked norse. Sami people uralic. They probably lived in the south too, because how strong culture the finnish kalevala were. I believe vikings has taken a learn from indigenous finno-ugric tribes for their religious world vision. So just to clarify that before christianity there was a culture and this modern finnish culture has just been created from the swedish occupation. Sami people are the same tribe as original finnish were and still are. I dont like how this video from the clear didnt take it more wider narrative about sami and finnish heritage. Just notifying to folks that this videos vision is only limited for the time when vatican ruled over northern europe.

[@ahkkariq7406]

I don't know Finnish history, but the Sami are a mixed people between those who immigrated from the east and people who lived in the country, at least Norway, from before. Norwegians and Sami have more than 90% common gene mass, and the Sami language contains a large proportion of unknown origin - assumed by linguists to be remnants of languages ​​spoken in the Paleo-European area. Finns don't have Norwegian genes, do they?

[@MRtapio5]

Your comment is just so wrong in multiple levels. 1. Finn's and sámi aren't the same people. Thats quite disrespectful towards both sides 2. Sámi never lived in South/central of Finland 3. During Viking age, no one spoke "uralic" nor even "finnic". Vikings age wasn't that long ago where Finn's and sámi would've spoke the same language

[@Bragosso]

It's funny, as an ethnic Swede born in northern Lapland with my family having lived here for nearly 200 years, I know plenty of Lapps. I have discussed this on many occasions and every Lapp says that anyone who calls themselves a "Sami", is indeed a *pavement* *Lapp* , referring to Sami activists living in southern Sweden, that have never set their foot in the wild.

[@morriskaller3549]

Va? Jag trodde att Lapp var något man aldrig fick säga om samerna

[@Bragosso]

@@morriskaller3549 du bor uppenbarligen inte i norra Lappland.

[@Kaesemesser0815]

It's called Lapland

[@rndmguy7617]

There is Lappland and Sapmi what the heck is that title picture

[@Ronnlaxo]

Lappy 😋

[@bisken6547]

I think the Lapland beong derogatory thing is exclusively a norwegian thing

[@Sondre_Husby]

Not realy in norway we realy dint call them lapps we called them finn wich is where finnmark comes from so finn mark (finn another word for sami) (mark another word for land, outdoors or natur)

[@zoom5024]

Never heard anyone say lapland is a derogatory word in Sweden, that is literally what the region is called.

[@elias71101]

Lapland is not derogatory anywhere, that's where FactSpark is wrong. Lapp however is derogatory in both Sweden and Norway.

[@karsteinmartinsen489]

North Norway is not Lappland or sapmi...And will not be that

[@butterflies655]

Still Norway has got Sami ppl the most number.

[@StewGuy]

My people were in Sapmi long before the Norwegians came. It is called Sapmi, not North Norway.

[@ggf_andyfox1946]

@@StewGuyNorwegians came 10000 years ago😭 u came 3500💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@StewGuy]

They weren't up in Sapmi 10000 years ago@@ggf_andyfox1946

[@INVAILDNAME]

most sami people live in oslo just like normal people. nothing special about sami people@@butterflies655

[@rndmguy7617]

It’s “Lappland”

[@Alinasti0]

Swedish lappland and finnish lapland

[@pdream2128]

great video, i found Scandinavian content overall pretty interesting

[@mattias3668]

There are differences in what areas are covered by Sámpi and Lapland.

[@sethivaltas619]

Lapp means patch, never heard of it being used as a derogatory term, but then again I don’t live up there

[@NoanNorvang]

Yeah it's a derogatory term used against us like the n word is used against black people

[@CarreRan_]

@@NoanNorvang I'm a Samí, and from Northern Norway, and I do not have this experience at all 🤨

[@NoanNorvang]

@@CarreRan_ I guess it's different for different people, I come from Karasjok and everyone I know considers it offensive if a someone calls us a Lapp

[@CarreRan_]

@@NoanNorvang don't get me wrong, the word lapp - followed by a rude word, is definitely meant as a slur. However I think 99% of people associate it with Lapland, northern Sweden and Finland. I have to be honest and say "lapp" to me is that small round pancake

[@NoanNorvang]

@@CarreRan_ it's fine, but I anyway don't like it if someone calls me a lapp

[@hdkonvick6299]

Its Finnish, not Finish

[@Simon-gh6nz]

lapp=small flap of material, often cloth

[@deeremies2266]

no, it means "backside" of something. Lapland being called lapland is a recent thing that oeiginated in finland, the area of lapland was called finland or kvenland in old texts and sagas

[@GrippyClips]

I always wondered why Crusader Kings 3 had a kingdom called Sapmi, Thanks for informing me!

[@anul6801]

Kvenland should have been a better representation of the land during the Crusader era.

[@brianhobaugh]

@@anul6801Both of Crusader Kings 3’s start dates are before the First Crusade.

[@ahkkariq7406]

As always, when Sápmi in one way or another is the topic, the anti Sami activists are present in the comments section. I therefore will leave a comment about the subject. I perceive the video as a whole to be good. There are some irregularities here and there, but they are not really relevant to the theme of the video - although some viewers will certainly perceive them as facts. The one claim I immediately reacted to is the one I always encounter in such videos made by people who have not studied recent Sami history - that the Sami people migrated in from Ural or Asia. It is right that some people migrated in, but they were not Sami. I will come back to this topic. I am Norwegian Sami, and about 20 years ago I read everything I could get my hands on about Sami history in Norwegian, but also some research reports that were available in English. I have a higher education in history as part of my teacher training, so I am not unfamiliar with historical method. In recent years Sami history has not only been part of my profession as a teacher, it has also been a great interest. Recent research shows that Norwegians and Sami share more than 90% of their DNA. This is according to historian and gene researcher Sturla Ellingvåg, who has the KZbin channel Viking Stories. The group that migrated in from the east and brought the Uralic language with them were as mentioned not Sami. The Sami people are a mixed people, just like the Norwegians. Sami identity arose in northern parts of Scandinavia for approx. 3000 years ago as a fusion between immigrants who came via the Urals and people who lived there. Archaeological finds show continuity from the oldest finds (8-10,000 years old) to today's Sami. This is an important part of Sami history for the simple reason that many Norwegians and probably also Swedes still believe today that the Sami migrated from the east and settled in the Norwegians' and Swede's land. Something that does not agree with both archaeological, linguistic and genetic findings, as well as historical sources. There are many people who believe that the Sami are not indigenous, which is of course just nonsense. That is why I always comment when someone insinuates that Sami immigrated from the east. Such claims harm the current Sami population's right to their own land. The Sami language consists of a large part of unknown origin, somewhere between a third and a half of the Sami language is believed to be remnants of languages ​​spoken in the Paleo-European area. Remnants of this/these languages ​​are also found in Norwegian. You say that Sami had more contact with Finns than Norwegians and Swedes. I don't know about Swedes, but before the Christianization of Norway there was established contact between Sami and Norwegians. Border discoveries have been made in the form of graves containing jewelery and coins of both Sami and Norse character. The items are of poorer quality than utility items, so it is likely that they were made for that purpose. These border graves show that Sami and Norwegians agreed on where the border between those peoples was, and Norwegian history confirms that the two peoples traded with each other and had great respect for each other. The Norwegian king Harald Hairfair even took a Sami woman as one of his wives. Sami shamans were especially respected, to such an extent that Norwegians feared them. Norway is a coastal nation, and Sami boat builders were known for building particularly seaworthy boats. Instead of riveting the boats, they sewed the wooden boards together. This made the boats particularly seaworthy because they moved with the sea in a completely different way to riveted boats. If there was one thing Norwegians knew how to value, it was skilled boat builders. Sami bowmakers made the bow using a technique where they glued thin wooden boards together. Some Samis were even part of the army of Norwegian noblemen.

[@vegardtengelsen1926]

Nonsens. The name of the " samis" originated in the Swedish king by making of his " Lappemarker". The marks was defined by the east and west bound rivers like Pite, Ume, Lule also. The dialect of these different " marker" turned to " languages" and " people" by the start of the 19 th century. The name " sam" was heard for the first time when the Law of reindeer herding was sorted out in 1936... There was a discussion concerning whether they should call themselves Lapp or Sam... You have been fed fairytales as the rest of the political creation "Sam" disciples. Everything according to plan how to make a new minority that could be able to hide away the overvelding Finnish history and culture that has been in the region since the Bronze age. The Finnish cultural markers are from every part of history, throughout the region are no optical illusion. How the treatment an theft of the Skolte people, that with force an lies became " same"- is nothing but an genocide. By the way. Olaus Magnus describes 37 different peoples in the region in 1540. You dont know shit, only sucking on an narrative, created in the birth of the nations.

[@Ais-pd6yl]

Swede here, I often hear online that Sami are the native or indigenous people while Swedes aren't which is also annoying.

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@Ais-pd6yl What you might not be aware of is that indigenous people also is a political term for people who do not have their own country - which Swedes have. Of course Swedes are indigenous in the historical term. If you continue giving away your country to Arabs, you will be indigenous in both terms.

[@JanMaranCrazyface]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ahkkariq7406 where can I read more of your findings? I think I recognize some parts from «Vår gamle kystkultur» by Svein Molaug

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@JanMaranCrazyface My main sources are "Fjordfolket i Kvænangen" by Ivar Bjørklund, "Samenes historie fram til 1750" by Lars Ivar Hansen and Bjørnar Olsen, "Folk uten fortid" by Reidar Nielsen and Sørøysund lokalhistorie by Ragnvald Johansen. The two latter is from my home area, the islands around Hammerfest. "Samenes historie fra 1751 til 2010" is also available, but I have not read it.

[@baqua-jy1uw]

So many hateful people in the comments, but I'm not surprised. Men are quite emotional these days.

[@randalliveyivey136]

Bravo. Keep up the good work.

[@MrBergakungen]

sapmi , northamericans(natives) , inuit , and even asian people has the same genes.

[@ArkansasGamer]

Wow, great content

[@anul6801]

Its Lapland not sapmi.

[@elias71101]

No, Lapland is only in Sweden and Finland.

[@anul6801]

@@elias71101 Finmark is Lapland aswell. Same people. Kvens and Samis.

[@anul6801]

Do Kvenland and the Kvens next. The people who settled first in Lapland.

[@INVAILDNAME]

nordland, trøndelag, and troms og finnmark will always be norwegian

[@NoanNorvang]

It's true that they are quote on quote Norwegian, but we are still here and have been here for quite a while and there are still some majority Sami areas remaining

[@INVAILDNAME]

953000 Norwegians live in nordland, trøndelag, and troms og finnmark😭 14900 sapmi and they live like normal people in cities💀💀💀💀💀💀💀@@NoanNorvang

[@ahkkariq7406]

Being a part of Norway does not necessarily mean that the land were populated by Norwegians before they started migrating north. How do you think Finnmark got it's name?

[@HZV1492]

​@@ahkkariq7406samis belong to Siberia, subhumans

[@lukkamr]

​@@ahkkariq7406literally... it may be Norwegian, but it's also Sami lol both people can coexist

[@PuppuPosti]

Quite of "bullshit" opinion of Norwegians. Nice try to anyway!

[@elias71101]

please elaborate

[@Korsfare]

The sami people come from siberia, and they will never have official claim over any Norwegian Land.

[@elias71101]

Norwegians didn't just magically spawn in Norway either, what's your point?

[@Korsfare]

@@elias71101 well technically we did, y'know either you follow the science, which is fish walked onto land, or you follow god, where god put us on land. And this entire video is just crap after crap and false information. What's your point?

[@equation1321]

independance for lapland

[@ahkkariq7406]

If the Sami want independence, they will hardly use "Independence for Lapland" as a slogan. They would probably rather use "Independence for Sápmi".

[@curom6593]

Not exactly a likely scenario...

[@MRtapio5]

😂

[@equation1321]

@@MRtapio5 xd

[@deeremies2266]

russian troll comment? no one even considers it, it would be the poorest country in europe

[@m.i.c.h.o]

Incredible work! I really love videos like these. Keep it up :)

[@iXUZDAP]

This video is 100% misinformation. the Sami people were hostile immigrants that occupied areas already belonging to said nation. They have no right to the areas and only live there because they were allowed to. At the moment, there are huge movements that want to remove them completely, because they are really pushing the limit with the demands to "sami rights" which they claim to be above the nations laws.

[@lukkamr]

what kind of fascist rant is this 💀 there being "huge" movements to remove them is an overstatement lmao also they have every right to a nation even if within another.

[@swedishboomstick3362]

@@lukkamr He should have worded it more as a huge movement to remove the special privileges that the so called "Sapmi Councils" have. Mostly because said councils have become really corrupt (litterally taken over by people claiming to be sapmi but who are not) and does not really represent the intresst of the Sapmi peoples. There is no reasonable call for the removal of any people in Sweden atleast. Update! It seems that it already has been reformed from what I can see.

[@lemetma]

Soon you can read each countries Truth and reconciliation reports which all will in fact state that the real hostile “immigrants” or colonizers were indeed the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish states. Also, be careful of overstating how big such movements are, because you might be trapped in an internet echo chamber. Also these few anti-sámi are good examples of how hundreds of years of state funded racism dwindles down to every day people’s minds 😢

[@elias71101]

@@lukkamr yeah not a single correct thing in that comment

[@mattias3668]

​@@lukkamr Huge may or may not be an exaggeration. I have no idea of big it is; but it's probably from region from region. I imagine it's larger in Lapland then in Skåne for example; also in general, people have no idea how popular an opinion really is because they live in echo chambers. Personally I haven't heard anything about removing them, not even from so called fascists. It's usually about removing the special legal privileges Samis have that no one else has. Regarding their right to a nation within a nation, that's simply your opinion: since when do people have a right to their own nation within another nation, such thinks generally causes legal and political problems. We have granted them the right to live within our nation for a very long time, but they have not really been granted the right to have their own nation, they have only been granted some administrative rights and afforded some legal privileges not afforded to our own nation's people. These rights are in no way inalienable, they are rights the Samis have been granted. Obviously you are a communist, since you call people you don't agree with fascists. My guess is that you think basically everyone believes mostly the same things as you, and that right wing opinions (which you call fascist) are rare - I've got news for you: that's just your echo chamber, personally, for me your believes are extremely rare, as I only have one friend and one family member that share them, and otherwise don't interact with anyone that is a lefty.

[@Qsen123]

its a shame that the victim culture of usa has spread even here to northern europe with some (thankfully rare few) samis becoming vocal about how they are discriminated against. News flash they arent

[@lemetma]

News flash, read the Norwegian 700 page Truth and Reconciliation report which indeed states that the sámi were mistreated and victims of a state funded program to erase their identity.

[@elias71101]

And on what basis do you say this?

[@StewGuy]

Lmao, do research before you post idiotic things like this.