The Sami. The Nomads Of The Arctic // Indigenous Peoples Of Russia

[@rosykatzCATS]

What a depressing life

[@JohnBurman-l2l]

It's relative, if they lived in a city they would be poor, deprived, looked down on. Here they are their own bosses, live by their knowledge of nature.... respected.

[@The_Catnip]

Why?

[@cutekoala5492]

modernism ruins everything

[@notsocrates9529]

I think the same thing about Mongolian herdsmen or African bushmen, but if I had to choose, I'd go with the Sami.

[@JohnBurman-l2l]

@@notsocrates9529 Remember in cities with rising inflation, food prices and rent will take most of our income. In small villages one can grow food and barter, rents are lower. I opted for rural life.

[@Dontthunk]

This is great. I think it would be easier to watch with just subtitles, not voiceover. This would also let us hear the language as it’s spoken.

[@Yessicuhhh]

100% agree!

[@allegraferrente7980]

@@tatumergo3931 the correct voice is not an irritating 12 year old american putting on a silly voice and making everything? sound? liiike? (I know right!) a question?

[@ellaw356]

Not for me, I can’t see! Lol

[@skehleben7699]

Give me subtitles any day!

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

High end professional dubbing is dubious at best, and the amateur stuff is atrocious. Better to show subtitles instead and let the sound of the on camera speakers' voices convey its own natural emotion.

[@christmas1210]

May all indigenous cultures thrive over the years in the future. We need the knowledge from basic original beliefs to restore and care for our planet for the future generations

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

unlikely to ever happen but a good thought-

[@malibudolphin3109]

Great, so you want Europe to be White and safe again, good for you

[@Turkish_Model_]

Uralic language 🤝 Germanic (Indo European) language

[@Sci-lives]

I agree. They know how to live sustainably. Working here in Canada as an environmental engineer, I can’t count the times Indigenous Knowledge helped me in my work. Plus, once the world goes to complete shit, they’re the only ones who know how to rightly live off the land! 👏

[@LeoniFermer-vi4dc]

@@Sci-lives yes we need to relearn old crafts and connect with the land. Many people yearn for nature,but money rules!

[@ahkkariq7406]

I am Sami from Northern Norway. There is little doubt that we belong to the same people as those in the film. I could recognize both appearance, costume traditions, way of life and customs from where I come from. My family is Sea Sami, but we have contact with reindeer herding Sami. It is a shame that there is so little contact across national borders between Sami in the various countries, but I know that work is being done to establish contacts and maintain contact across the borders. In the Nordic countries, the Sami communities are flourishing, and there are several Sami musicians who are well regarded in our countries. I recommend everyone to check out Mari Boine (Norway) and Jon Henrik Fjällgren (Sweden). Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen (Norway) and Sofia Jannok (Sweden) are also skilled performers of the Sami song tradition joik/yoik.

[@anatoliypankevych4853]

That’s because their territory was occupied by russia from Suomi. Other than that russia has nothing to do with that territory nor the people

[@ДмитрийПанфилов-39]

​​@@anatoliypankevych4853Окупанты вы, а не Россия.

[@АртемСмирнов-щ7ц]

​@@anatoliypankevych4853It is you Ukraine who occupied the Russian lands of Novorossiya

[@LyricSnowe]

Of course you guys wanna make a lovely comment about their culture into something political. Fuck all three of you guys your bullshit war.

[@scottgordon8902]

​@user-tc1ub8tm3q just another ignorant troll bot... sorry for abysmal future because of your crap country and people

[@octiiXpies]

The husband brushing off stuff from his wife's hair was such a small gesture of affection but so, so sweet. Also, watching her peel those potatoes was amazing!

[@rdallas81]

I seen that and thought the same.. These people rely on each other BIG TIME.. Isn't life amazing? I wish everyone everywhere just got along. I'm so tired of seeing and knowing what's actually happening...sad and scary at the same time.

[@irishka_zolotse]

It would really be nice to hear their language... Boris and Ulliana speak russian at least what I could hear, but it also sounded they speak some other, possibly indigenous, language? The radio talked in russian, and the portrait up on the wall is of the russian-soviet fiction author Shukshin... their guests speak russian as well...

[@dp-kz5cs]

Peeling potatoes is amazing ? 😂 try it

[@rdallas81]

@@dp-kz5cs what the hell is so funny about that?

[@octiiXpies]

@@dp-kz5cs I have Multiple Sclerosis and can hardly hold a pen some days, so yeah let's try to use a knife and peel something in one go, why not? I have a feeling you don't know how to peel without a peeler tool anyway.

[@lesliesaunders2468]

Met some lovelySami people in northern Finland years ago. I was touched by their friendliness,and willingness to share stories by the fireplace.

[@TheAccidentalViking]

I went on a camping trip to Northern Norway and at one campsite, a lovely man and his wife shared dried reindeer and krekling liquor with me. The further north I went, the friendlier the people, I noticed. Years later, we found out my son's great grandmother was Sami from the Finland/Norway boarder. The family had no idea because it was from a generation when 'these things weren't talked about'. We just happened to run into a very elderly neighbour from where she grew up and they told us.

[@heldermonteiro2718]

You guys are so cliche

[@MrAyla]

Growing up in Saskatchewan my father worked for the local tribal council. We are settlers, but have close connections to the indigenous community. There was a Sami activist that came through when I was a teen. It was interesting how much of her culture was similar to the local indigenous culture. That their tent looks like a plains Cree teepee is interesting

[@bas-tn3um]

tribal people tend to have a lot of similarities the irish were the last tribal people in europe and we see a lot of coastal similarities between their ancient structures and native americans on the east coast . a celtic migration may well of happened to the states. so the sami may of as well in the past.

[@oddindian1]

In my research into genetic origins about my own Hungarian roots I learned of a connection to those earliest populations in northern Siberia. The people in the Baltic countries and the Sami. There is a genetic link to populations of indigenous peoples in the Americas. It is no surprise to me that there are similarities as we are family separated by time.

[@MrAyla]

Parallel creation of solutions to problems in similar environments also would make sense

[@bas-tn3um]

exact same designs sure thing cause every pyramid looks the same. the celts clearly came to north america africans clearly visited the caribbean as well the norse came to north america and the celts used the same trade roots for generations. all pretty easily looked up too. we even see similar religious traditions between east coast native americans and the celts from pre roman british isles. how long they stayed or if they had anything but a last tertiary influence is up for debate but given how much correlation exists between the two cultures claiming its coincidental is disingenuous.@@MrAyla

[@suzubee9602]

@@MrAyla i think there is something lowkey beautiful about both the idea of it being either influenced culture or parallel creation or a mix of both, we're all connected as humans in many ways

[@jakemoeller7850]

The countryside is spectacular, and the culture is fascinating.

[@Pamelina1111]

This video felt like a home movie for me. My family is from Lappajarvi and some of the people in this video looked just like my relatives and family .

[@christinamann3640]

They could very well be distant relatives 😊 who knows

[@stilts34711]

Thank you for sharing your lives with us. In our rush, rush, rush world we often forget that beautiful places and people like this still exist.

[@Travel.and.Nature]

Our pleasure!

[@ricjonez1816]

Native American Ojibwe in Michigan, We believe in all of Spirits you've mentioned. Live with Spirits an Honor with food and prayer beautiful things happen and people are protected

[@colinchampollion4420]

Well you Native-Americans are the decendants of the Sami ~ same kind of Teepees - child- board- binding and Spirit Religion 😮😊!

[@wulvenwool]

beautiful people and culture, subscribed! would be wonderful if we could hear the native language more vs the voice over

[@muddydog6605]

Yes I would have preferred subtitles.

[@johannal.4048]

Unfortunately, they are not speaking the native language. They are speaking Russian.

[@evgenytoropov8134]

Not all of them! And the husband seems to have a regional accent

[@aumelb]

​​@@johannal.4048some of them speak Russian in the video, others like Ulyana and Olga speak Sami. They all have Russian names, though.

[@KelleyKat]

My mother is from Finland and our lineage comes from Karelia - a region whose culture is rich in music, dance and creativity. She brought all of that to the US when she married my American father and we offspring got those genes! A wonderful heritage.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Caucasians are not connected to the Sami -COMANCHE NATION

[@MarianLuca-rz5kk]

KelleyKat, what kind of genes you say you got ?

[@minnaorv]

Karelians are indigineous aswell

[@LarsLiveLaughLove]

SO neat! Me too (I think almost entirely Finnish and Swedish but in the same country at least!)

[@Siemenkarju22]

What does this have to do with the Sami? I think people confuse the words Suomi(Finland) and Sami(indigenous Sami people). They're different things

[@aaronTNGDS9]

God has been most kind by allowing circumstances to exist to enable humanity to take on so many different physical and cultural characteristics. All of which enhance the beauty and capacities of the human family the world over. The Sami are a long-overlooked part of that humanity, and videos like this help correct that oversight.

[@Kymcook73]

When I watch these stories I always wonder what my actual background is. I was born and raised in the USA but some of my ancestors came to America on a ship from other countries. I love watching these kind of stories. Thank you for sharing. Blessings from my home to all of yours. ❤

[@Travel.and.Nature]

Thanks for sharing!

[@letsTAKObout_it]

You should try an Ancestry DNA test!

[@manderly109]

@@tatumergo3931 the subjects of this video are also white

[@the_beat_thief]

@@tatumergo3931 Let me guess - you have green skin and are known to live under bridges.

[@DaniHMcV]

Unless you’re indigenous, ALL your ancestors came from other countries, probably by ship. American education is still a shining example to the world I see.

[@malins.6362]

Would haved loved subtitles instead of talking over their voice. Their language is important and the makers of the video made it impossible for any Sapmi -speaking people to understand.

[@Aethuviel]

They are speaking Russian though.

[@malins.6362]

@@Aethuviel ahaa lol it sounds like Sapmi. Still only the norse Sapmi speaks english so it's wierd that someting about their minority group can not be understood by them and i still think it's silencing their voice.

[@aumelb]

​@@Aethuviel half of them in the video don't.

[@HEIDIBrayInMaine]

I loved this short documentary..I've never heard of the Sami people and now I'm so intrigued I'm going to go spend hours sinking into a rabbit hole of knowledge about them... my family comes from Hungary. My great grandfather and grandmother and my grandparents my nagymama and my szepmama all came over on the Carpathia in the 30s before the war ..and I love learning about European culture ..

[@Tarienidu1]

Didn't the Sami women remind you a bit of the old Hungarians with their beliefs and dresses? 😂 I think my great grandmother would have fit right in with those ladies! 😂

[@chrisgrom]

@HEIDIHAPPYtoBeAFlea If you can speak hungarian, just close your eyes and hear some sami language(not in this video but in other videos) ...it is almost like hungarian, like you hear it from the other side of a wall...

[@amymhrslvr]

Interesting! My maternal line is Hungarian from Transylvania. I did a mtDNA test and way back they actually came from Finland. Sami do remind me a little of my dédnagymama. Maybe Hungarians are indeed a lost tribe of the Finns?

[@SIC647]

Could you please give the option between dubbing and captions. I prefer subtitles.

[@mathjertstrom3325]

My grandfather was Swedish Sami.

[@tevfikalp4747]

Very interesting. That would be a very nice to come there for a visit. My Best Wishes for all of you.

[@Travel.and.Nature]

Same to you!

[@richardcoughlin8931]

Very informative. Although I’ve visited Lapland (in northern Sweden) I didn’t realize that Sami tents are identical to the tepee dwellings of North American Plains Native American tribes. Or that Sami religious beliefs are broadly similar to those of Native Americans. Or that Sami live in Russia in addition to Finland, Sweden and Norway.

[@aazhie]

Have you seen anything about Ainu people? I am reminded of similar ways of living

[@richardcoughlin8931]

@@aazhie Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about the Ainu, except that they are marginalized in Japanese society. I have had decades of contact with Native American peoples in the Southwest, such as Navajo, Taos, Santa Clara other Pueblo tribes located along the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

[@billidoeseverythinghewants125]

look up throat singing across the world

[@songwolf108]

Interestingly they seem to share much in common with American indigenous peoples, besides the tepee & Shamanism the diet of meat & wild berries was eaten by early indigenous people too!

[@alex.profi27]

​@@songwolf108ok,and?! They are still not the natives to scandinavia This is a massive,racist lie fabricating history to colonize the people of scandinavia The vikings are the only natives of scandinavia

[@FightsRightsAlways]

There's a movie called Klaus on Netflix and there's this adorable little Sami girl, who likes to follow the mailman around. That was the first time I ever heard of Sami. It made me curious about the people and their history. I'm not white either(black in America) and i just wanted to know more. Great documentary 👏 👍

[@kaguth]

Anyone interested in the Sami should watch the film Pathfinder (Ofelaš;) 1987. It's a classic drama/action film about the Sami people

[@trishr.3986]

Thank you for mentioning this!

[@terrylucas630]

Beautiful family. Safe travels. I hope this reaches you and those you love in great health and happiness❤️🙏 Love from America❤️

[@Ursaminor31]

Such respect for these warriors all,over the world with the conviction of real human living and interacts with the environment

[@francinemiranda8409]

Thanks for bringing us an up-close visit! I enjoyed the personal perspective!

[@Travel.and.Nature]

Our pleasure!

[@shellydesormier4646]

It’s really sad when people lose their art and culture. I hope their spirits bring them good things to come. The reindeer are beautiful. ☮️🍁🍂

[@rdallas81]

You're beautiful. Always remember that.

[@DiogenesOfCa]

I have no idea what my culture is, I am American; I don't feel sad, it is progress.

[@chilibeer3912]

This documentary is incredible. May your subscribers soon match the quality of video.

[@Ursaminor31]

These structures are international in the north, not just North America. An ancient global,culture of all colours.

[@karenandvlad]

Such as wonderful place lovely people. I have been there from 81to 83 ,as a part of compulsory military service of Russia. Murmansk region , Pechenga.

[@f8ofk8]

The Sami came to us at Standing Rock. They were so warm, generous, and good hearted. I remain connected to their hearts and their struggles. ❤️🫂❤️

[@MrOx85]

Seeing these people is like a window into the past, all of western Europe had similar traditions and culture.This is how Celtic tribes lived before empires took over

[@thomaswayneward]

Good point.

[@gloriahufnagel5556]

Great video!x & the narration with Julian & Boris speaking, I would also prefer just hearing them, subtitles.. other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this video..

[@cavecavecavecave5295]

I think Christopher Walken would narrate this perfectly.

[@bernadettegreen7134]

Baby boomer & geography geek near Pittsburgh, Pa. USA agrees with your comment.

[@jake-qn3tl]

Nah stop recycling celebrities. It's lame

[@jeffpagan7735]

I'm 54 I remember reading about the laplanders when I was eight. It conjured pictures of Santa's village in my head. Now I know that's a derogatory term. I realize they are an ancient rich culture. Still fascinating!

[@Lololeelee]

Finnlander is also derogatory.

[@bas-tn3um]

its not a derogatory term just because it was someone elses name for them you mental midget. ITS DEROGATORY CAUSE IT CAME FROM EUROPEANS. now tell us about how islams a religion of peace and how only europeans warred. piss mouth,.

[@GnosticElohim]

What a beautiful people.

[@tom_olofsson]

I have cousins who are 1/2 Sami. Nice to see the traditional ways survive.

[@Sal.K--BC]

Darn, I wish it just had sub-titles... I want to hear their language! or are they speaking mostly Russian?

[@user-iv2jz2yj3z]

They are speaking Russian, except the song

[@АлександраЗамуленко]

In video mostly russian lenguage

[@night_milk]

They speak both russian + some kind of kildin Sámi i think Half of the words are not in russian

[@wladefant]

@@night_milk yeah right the reindeer family were speaking often very strangely. The words I have heard sound kind of swedish. At least it seemed to me to have a nordic tone to it.

[@bornstellarnova1991]

It's fascinating to see the similarities between indigenous cultures in North America and nomadic peoples of eastern and northern europe, asia. So far away, yet so close. I am Hunkpapa Lakota.

[@StockyDude]

It’s so awesome that even the Sami know the American pop culture expression “The Last of the Mohicans” (from the movie of the same name).

[@AwenyddGryffin]

It's actually a novel that was made into a movie... as usual the book is much better.

[@StockyDude]

@@AwenyddGryffinTrue, but it was the movie that caused the phrase to become a common saying.

[@SIC647]

​@@StockyDudeNope. Ask old people. They know the term, it came from them knowing the book. Books were a bigger dealvin the old days.

[@bas-tn3um]

yes because they live in a bubble you clown.

[@jenk4545]

​@StockyDude Nope. Actually, the book The Last of the Mohicans and other books about Native Americans were hugely popular in Europe throughout the 30s, 40s, and 50s. There was even a fad in Germany of men who who dressed up like cowboys and "Indians".

[@ThomasMitchell-sl8sj]

Beautiful I enjoyed watching this documentary thank you from The USA

[@mariakuznetsova1594]

I would recommend you russian-finnish movie “The cuckoo” about two soldiers of the warring armies found salvation in the house of a Sami girl.

[@arbarb7204]

Love there humor. Best language of them all. Wonderful

[@Stella77_7]

Its important to point out White Northern European & Scandinavian people are Indigenous to their lands just as much as a Native American is Indigenous to America. There is an agenda to label us all colonizers as if we steal everyone's lands. Nonetheless racist talk like that is why there is so much hate in the world. My ancestoral heritage is Scandinavian & Germanic. My ancestors migrated to the US in the 1820s & 1860s. But both my mothers families & my fathers kept oral records of the place we cams from. I often want to move to my ancestoral homeland from the US.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Thank you! People forget that Indigenous is a word, not the Native American people. I think it is wonderful that you know where your people come from, and I am happy your family was successful in coming here to where my people are. Back then that was a long dangerous trip, and now you are here! 😁 You are an American but it is also important for everyone to be proud of where they are originally from, be sure to live a good life and be proud of your roots and make them proud of you as well. A'HO.(Blessings in Lakota)😁

[@Stella77_7]

@@CosmicAli_TheObserver yes indeed! ❤️❤️

[@stormygeo]

Your ancestral homeland is filled with islamic colonizers now

[@alex.profi27]

This is a well planned out racist way of colonizing europe and demozing an entire race

[@oredi2159]

Im not understanding the point, no one went up there and stole their land

[@janatmatembe4765]

Do yu visit them all.love your videos

[@minnaorv]

Sami arent related with scandinavians or russians but they are related to finns. Finnish word for finland is ”suomi” and finns in finnish are ”suomalaiset” sami in finnish are ”saamelaiset”. Our languages are related (not understandable w eachother) and our origins are from the volga river and ural mountains

[@LatinaKamilla]

I thought the thumbnail was cat in the hat lol love that movie/book ❤

[@mikeogden5256]

The tents look similar to American Indian type 😊

[@colinchampollion4420]

Because they are ancestors of Native-Americans

[@FERNANDOAMENDIVIL]

“The traditions, folklore fears and negative ATtutdes that will end with this generation will birth a happier, positive generation.”

[@kobylarczyk5772]

I wish I knew for sure if have Sami ancestry. I am taken a couple of DNA tests and they tell me my Haplogroup the rare-ish Haplogroup V. I would have no idea how to break it down farther to see if there’s a connection. But when I found out years ago that the Sami are a part of this Haplogroup, I’ve always felt a connection and was interested, history and culture.

[@rubenskiii]

Do you have information about past generations of you family? Where they are from can maybe shed light on that.

[@lovelyandsmartcommentator5130]

My Great Grandma told me she was Sami. She was put in a boarding school and forced to become Lutheran and speak Norwegian.

[@rubenskiii]

@@lovelyandsmartcommentator5130 it seems that your families oral history and genetic evidence support eachother. To better know the answers i am afraid you are somehow are gonna have to find out if there are still records kept by the church, maybe in those records there can be found more evidence about where they came from exactly, which "tribe"/community. Contacting the Norwegian Embassy might help in that they can put u on the right track. And look if there are more people doing this kind of search! I know not a lot about this subject but in recent years in multiple countries the horrible treatment of chrurches and government against native people has gotten a lot more attention and a lot more research is done now, which is good.

[@Nikke283]

If you have, your DNA would show. At least when you are willing to pay for the deep dive. Genomelink has such a deep dive. You can load up your raw there, having the Scandinavian DNA (you might have) looked at much closer. In my case it split my 15% Scandi genes to 9 % Sami and the rest to classic Scandinavian genes. :)

[@rubenskiii]

@@Nikke283 i second this but dna research has it's limits, physical records and dna research *together* might give the most complete picture.

[@dannytaveras1521]

Beautiful, hard-working people

[@326Alan]

Is this the original audio or was it dubbed? Would love to hear the original (this one feels like the voiceover is shouting at you 😅)

[@Aethuviel]

It was like nails on a chalkboard to hear a teenage girl speak for ten people at once, most of them several times older than her... they are speaking Russian in the background.

[@326Alan]

@@Aethuviel yeah I wish they would leave original audio on videos didn't even make it past a few seconds with the shouting

[@rubenskiii]

@@tatumergo3931 Russian voice-overs are such a meme indeed, especially in older days it was so bad it's near hilarious. You could a lot of times instantly figure out who's the bad guy simply based on what voice actor was voicing a character. Same in my country tho, especially with kids movies that always was the case. Even as a kid u knew directly who where the baddies.

[@The_Peeping_Tom]

They mostly spoke Russian. Just a couple of words in Saami.

[@326Alan]

@@The_Peeping_Tom ah, but still... would prefer normal Russian to screamed English

[@ALehrer-s8f]

i was very impressed by this. thank you.

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

To all those who claim Sámi isn’t indigenous: The Proto Finns, the ancestors of modern day Finns, Estonians and Sámi migrated from Siberia Asia during the Last Ice Age, same time the ancestors of all 1st nation/indigenous Americans migrated to America from the very same place, as they are related. The reason why the Sámi is indigenous: - they intermixed with the 1st Europeans who where black with blue eyes, originating in the Middle East, the cradle of all white people, whilst their Finnish kin who stayed behind in Finland intermixed with various other people groups who came later resulting in modern day Finnish and Estonian people. - the Sámi culture and languages already existed long before any modern Scandinavian nation, boundaries and languages was created! We all came from somewhere. In regard to being indigenous it’s related to colonization. The Sámi was colonzied by the modern day state of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. All the others are late comers who mixed with people who came later into the area from the Middle East, and Central Asia: Anatolian farmers (Turkey), Yamnaya (Ukraine), Germanic famers aka Vikings. Modern day Scandinavians and Europeans can’t be indigenous, and I say that as a Norwegian indigenous person! I see this propaganda and false narrative rooted in racist ideology all the time. People with a settler, imperialist, racist and colonial mentality try and spread this BS to justify colonialism, and erase indigenous ties to their lands. Please get educated on human history and evolution as well as Scandinavian history before spewing hateful nonsense! CRINGE! And at the end of the day, doesn’t matter as science aka facts backs this up regardless. Genetic/DNA, linguistic and archaeological evidence!

[@pMsAlex138]

Sámi is definetly indigenous and was the first in Lappland, but they werent the first people in Scandinavia. But i definetly agree with you that they are the only indigenous people and definetly were colonized.

[@ginadeacon9920]

My Mother came from Karelia, Finland. Her Father became an alcholic, beaten by the Russian Army Invasion. She ended up as an emotionally damaged Nurse, who came over to England. Her life was a struggle, her MH affected us all. Her marriage ruined by her trauma & depression..but am grateful for her protective love & care when young. The sense of cultural roots.

[@locksmith2731]

Фины были и есть алкоголики без всякой Красной Армии.

[@ginadeacon9920]

@@locksmith2731 apologies can't translate.

[@christymalekani4104]

I want to send him a Great Pyrenees to guard his reindeer. They are beautiful. I would like to visit them.

[@Travel.and.Nature]

You should!

[@christymalekani4104]

@@Travel.and.Nature I don't know a way to get one delivered safely from the USA to Russia.

[@christinamann3640]

I was wondering if they ever had guard dogs for their reindeer

[@monicageorgson4870]

They have dogs for herding reindeer, they’re called Finnish Lapphund and are very cute

[@karlkarlson3502]

You are cute too 😍

[@Boats_N_Hoez]

I like there being no distinction from men and women. Makes things more fun to be together and do everything.

[@akacadian3714]

I have a Sammi herding dog, Lapponian Herder, they are excellent dogs very smart.

[@agucci]

The Sami are very good in Sweden, as well as! ❤

[@koboyjoachim4424]

i really love this video documentary@channels... i like to hear their real voice and better you just use caption or translater for subtitle..no need to translate with a voice 😊😊 thank you.

[@rubenskiii]

Yes voice-overs make it harder to understand, because intonation is lost due to the dubbing.

[@lindanorris2455]

THAT IS A KARELIAM BEAR DOG PUPPY!! OH ,Y HE'S ADORABLE!

[@brainspatula]

I see a lot of similarities to native American culture here

[@zainulabdin1720]

How can u see ! I see U don't have eyes In dp

[@colinchampollion4420]

Because they are the ancient ancestors of Native-Americans 😮

[@jaxthewolf4572]

​@@colinchampollion4420The ancient ancestors of native americans were known as paleoamericans. Not Europeans

[@CruzRosa-kk1nl]

Im curious to know which country/region have a large Saami popularion with a more somewhat asiatic phenotype?

[@gracevalentine1666]

Saami dna is in my family, I wish I knew more. Thanks ❤

[@colinchampollion4420]

Do a DNA ~¤you may be related to Native Americans

[@medusaslair]

There is so much disinformation here. The Sami people are not indigenous to Scandinavia nor Europe. They also don't have any connection to the indigenous people in Siberia, which some people have gotten into their heads because they both have reindeers. The Sami people came to Scandinavia from the Kola Peninsula in Russia about 2000-2500 years ago, people had been living in Scandinavia for over 10 000 years by then. They were nomads, hunters, and did not have any reindeer from the beginning, as opposed to the indigenous of Siberia who lived with reindeer for thousands of years. In Sweden agriculture was established 6000 years ago, and when the Sami people wandered in there about 4000 years later and saw that people can own animals, they decided to take Sweden's wild reindeer and make them Sami property. Unfortunetaly they killed off whatever remained of the reindeer they couldn't catch, so they actually kidnapped a whole species and claimed them as their property. To this day there are no wild reindeer in Sweden because the Sami people claim to own them all. A few wild reindeer still exist in Norway. The Sami people also exterminate all predators in more than half of Sweden, because they want "their" reindeer to be safe without having to guard them. This is the sad truth about the Sami people and "their" reindeer. But one should also know that it's only a handful of Sami people involved in the reindeer business, most Sami people live like everyone else in Scandinavia - and most of them also think it's embarrassing how some Sami people try to play the role as indigenous and demand rights they are actually not entitled to. For those who are interested in facts I recommend reading Karin Boje's scientific books about Sweden's and Europe's history, they used the newest and most advanced science techniques and DNA testing for that research. She's won many prizes for her research. You can learn a lot from her.

[@OSUBoxkator]

That's alot bs for not citing any sources.

[@Langkowski]

@@OSUBoxkator Well, those who claims the Sami are the "true natives" of Scandinavia and that the others are just intruders and immigrants who stole their land, has never been able to come up with a source. And there is one source: Karin Boje.

[@medusaslair]

@@OSUBoxkator - You didn't really read obviously, since I recommended the latest scientific research in Scandinavian and European history that can be read in several books by Karin Bojs. 🙂 So that comment of yours is a lot of BS for someone who doesn't even read and/or look up what he's commenting on. Kind of embarrassing, if you ask me.

[@mountainstream8351]

That is very interesting. I've always found reindeer herding to be a bit barbaric. The poor animals. I understand that if you had no other choice in life in order to survive you would use the reindeer but you should not do that if you can get food elsewhere. Animals are sacred too. Not just invisible "spirits."

[@andrewdavidson7829]

God knows what the truth is....stayin close to God- Mother Nature...a good plan...Peace..

[@plotholedetective4166]

Love the fish hats...

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

All today’s cultures were at some point native/indigenous/ethnic. All today’s ethnic Europeans come from indigenous ancestors, yes all today’s ethnic Europeans (white people) are also indigenous/native, even though that is not how it is officially listed. all European people around the world come from indigenous tribes. The northern western eastern and southern Europeans all have indigenous ancestors, and many of them who still live in rural villages still keep the old ways of their indigenous ancestors. Many rural country Slavic people, and other rural village ethnic Europeans still live same as their native indigenous Celtic, Slavic, Nordic ancestors have

[@elwolf8536]

seemed to swap indigenous with nomadic I think to disconnect Europeans from Europe

[@elwolf8536]

seemed to swap indigenous with nomadic I think to disconnect Europeans from Europe

[@thomaswayneward]

Excellent point that most people don't think about. I grew up in East Texas and I can remember, from when I was young, the way some people lived here. It was close to the way the Sami live. All peoples went through the same phases and changes.

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

@@thomaswayneward Exactly! Today’s ethnic Europeans were once natives of their own lands and lived just like any indigenous people. If it was somehow possible to bring today’s Native American and today’s white American in font of Native Americans who lived in North America 700 years ago, the old world Native Americans would look at modern Native American and modern white American exactly the same, because both modern white Americans and modern Native Americans are equally civilized, modernized, and urbanized

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

@@elwolf8536 I’ve learned over the years that the official academic information on any ethnic group, or culture is not automatically 100% accurate, and especially when it comes to academic teachings on the status of indigenous people. A great example would be the very recent change that was made to the official information on the indigenous people of Japan who are now listed as “Ainu People” who happen to be a separate district group that’s different from the modern day majority of Asians in Japan. The Ainu have been officially recognized as indigenous of Japan since 2008! Prior to this change anyone talking about Ainu being indigenous of Japan was labeled a conspiracy nut, even though people who share the information on Ainu being indigenous of Japan didn’t just make empty claims but backed their claims up with facts and evidence. Still even with facts and evidence that directly contradicts the official information, The public to refused to listen to any of it, because this information was not yet recognized by the official academic sources of information. Of course anything outside of official academic sources of information is automatically conspiracy, or invalid information for most people, simply because it does not have the stamp of approval of being official academic information. So this is why I say simply because official sources claim that no European ethnic groups other than Sami are indigenous to their lands, it doesn’t automatically make it true in my eyes. I mean if we are going to get technical, then there are some ethnic European family lines who live in North America, and their lineage, their ancestry in North America is almost as old is not exactly same age as the Maori of New Zealand, and we all know that the Maori are considered natives of New Zealand. The whole New Zealand connection is its own separate story, because even in New Zealand the Maori themselves claim that they are not natives of New Zealand, because when their ancestors have arrived to New Zealand for the first time, according to Maori themselves New Zealand was already populated by some kind of mysterious population that was written out of history who supposedly have fair skin and red hair. This isn’t coming from me this is coming from the Maori people themselves and you can find this in various documentaries and articles online. I look at my own ancestors Russians who are of course Slavic people, they are part of the Slavic family tree, and the whole Slavic family tree is part of an even bigger Indo-European family tree, but I know that some Slavic people lived on their land for of at least couple thousand years. Who is to say that they are not native of their own land? The whole official listing of who is native/indigenous and who is not is so suspicious to me, and it’s pretty clear to me that whoever made this list intentionally left out ethnic Europeans and only included one single group that there’s no way you can deny Sami being indigenous because they still live like indigenous peoples till this day. So those who are in charge of making this official list of indigenous people on earth had no choice but to include Sami in it.

[@kimberlybates6261]

Seems like the love of nature and camping and grid life is in my DNA.

[@indiopeltier9758]

When he Said last of the Mohicans,he stuck a bell for me as A Indigenous person from America

[@Mikshvert]

so much harm done by european expansion. both by western and eastern empires. So much damage.

[@manderly109]

@@Mikshvert it’s true. How can it be remedied now?

[@LeoniFermer-vi4dc]

As an indigenous English person,I greatly admire Native American culture. Forced Christianity destroyed native ways and beliefs including those of my own people. I walk our native woodland and revere woodland spirits and the elements .💚

[@suzubee9602]

@@slavicmelodies9614 I'm not sure how his comment implies he doesn't realize that also there are many europeans not living in the areas they are indigenous to, there are indigenous europeans yes, there are people who are european living in europe who are also not indigenous to the country/area they live in. There's examples of this in other continents as well, example being the average Japanese person is not indigenous to Japan. Not all european countries participated in "european expansion" either.

[@medusaslair]

Well, the Native Americans have nothing in common with the Sami. The Native Americans are an actual indigenous people, the Sami are not. The Sami came to Finland somewhere around 2500 years to 3000 years ago, then around 2000 years to 2500 years ago a group of them wandered into Sweden and Norway. They are not indigenous to Scandinavia, people had been living in Finland, Sweden and Norway for more than 10 000 years before the Sami came there. The Sami come from the Kola peninsula in Russia.They have no connection to the indigenous of Siberia, who has a connection with the indigenous people in America and Canada. They are actually a fairly "new" people compared to others, although it might not seem like it.

[@morrisanderson818]

We had a group of Sami come to New Zealand,to learn how to,re, energize their traditional way's, languages etc,very interesting,on how their history, mirrors that of the Maori,of NZ,

[@readthetype]

They _“retired”_ and became farmers? I’m not certain _“retired”_ means what you think it does…

[@MichaelMike-ob2gb]

Farming is life not a job.

[@suzubee9602]

maybe on perspective, my parents generations farmed and did not hold traditional employed jobs as they were kept alive by what they raised. Some might refer to that as self employment, but when not much exchange of money is going around and it's meant to sustain is it really a job? It's work definitely, but ig it depends on how you see it

[@Mayakran]

@@MichaelMike-ob2gbomg I read that as “farming is not a job” and I was about to have words 😂

[@MichaelMcBrien-dn2wf]

​@@Mayakran lol The only heartbeat the world has is the farmer.

[@MiracleFound]

My great-grandfathers nephew painted the Sami people and had many friends amongst the Sami people.

[@irishka_zolotse]

It would really be nice to hear their language... Boris and Ulliana speak russian at least what I could hear, but it also sounded they speak some other, possibly indigenous, language? The radio talked in russian, and the portrait up on the wall is of the russian-soviet fiction author Shukshin... all their names in this documentary are not indigenous, even lady-shaman is Olga... the old lady sounded singing in indigenous language, and the teacher and the lady-shaman spoke in indigenous...

[@karenandvlad]

Wonderful place and local people, bring my memories back to 81 - 83 ( Russian military service)

[@татьянаиванова-э1ж8й]

Шукшин никогда не писал фантастику , кстати по крови он из поволжских финнов .

[@konstantinkennedy2244]

@@татьянаиванова-э1ж8й да да. из поволжских датчан из исландии. источник информации?

[@wladefant]

i was surprised too

[@linzraz9834]

About minute 22, an elderly woman mentions the “ancestors of the Sades” is that the formal name for Sami? Google was not helpful.

[@Travel.and.Nature]

not sure about your question, but there is an article about Sieidi and Sámi peoples en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieidi

[@elwolf8536]

Common phonomona today is that people confuse indigenous with nomadic

[@mikeogden5256]

I like the gathering tent 😊

[@tonym.9930]

Boris has the early signs of an essential tremor or Parkinson's. I recognize that from my dad.

[@deedorothypapineau6920]

It may just be excitement for being on camera.

[@varshneydevansh]

What a beautiful culture

[@thenikko8292]

i never thought i'd see someone wearing fur legwarmer with addidas shoes lol

[@Lizzie-h3j]

My uncle is part of the Sami tribe. He was born in Canada and adopted and when he was in his 60s he did his DNA and it turns out he comes from the Sami people.

[@kimberlybates6261]

Thank you because I have Sami ancestry and this is awesome. Sad that their lands keep shrinking and they get moved around. I live in the USA and also have native American ancestry. Very enlightening. Many similarities to Native Americans.

[@Boats_N_Hoez]

Same, saami ancestors and creek, Ojibwa and have family and friends from other tribes

[@sr2291]

Do you have a MTDNA V Haplogroup?

[@alex.profi27]

They are not similar to native americans in any shape or form I mean if you suggest the english are native to north america,then yes,sami are indigenous to scandinavia

[@sr2291]

@alex.profi27 Well, they are close to the land, and they aren't Christians.

[@alex.profi27]

@@sr2291 what a christianophobic,racist,retarded thing to say Mtf,the natives doesn t mean non christian tribal people The natives of middle east and north africa are not muslim arabs. They are CHRISTIAN copts,berbers,assyrians,etc. This a very racist,american view. And to have the nerve to suggest that because the natives of scandinavia are of white skin and these colonizers,the samis,don t look like that,that the situation is switched somehow. I dare you to come in Romania,my country,Eastern Europe and say that the turk minority is native to my land. You ll be beaten up and showed what a native is like.

[@redcrowdawn]

What a WONDERFUL life!! I have long wanted to visit Sápmi, and hope to visit one day. The examples they set for living in harmony with the natural world are inspiring, and next year, I'm going to build a "stand" like I saw in this video for drying my firewood. I have learned how to live off-grid, and even though we are in very different regions of the world, so many great lessons can be learned about correct living from the Sámi!!! One thing about this video that I found less appealing is the usage of the words "Lap" and "Lapland" in place of Sámi or Sápmi. The word "Lap" is a derogatory racial slur, much like calling a person of African decent the "N-word". It comes from the colonizers who ridiculed the "rags" (laps) that the Sámi wore/wear, their traditional dress. To use this term is outdated and unfortunate. I hope to see future videos where the respectful titles of Sámi and Sápmi permanently become the modern terms, to help break down the unkindness and disrespect that the old terms bred.

[@cjackfly]

This can't be the tip top of the great Sami culture can it?! I envisioned truly wondrous tribal people living masterful lives. Not a couple of regulars tending deer. Edit for: ok cool, the video and people get better. "Protects one from the evil eye." A step in the right direction!

[@sarahsparood]

What lake is at the end of the video, if it isnt Seidozero lake?

[@ZebbMassiv]

Interesting how Sami in Polish translates to The alone ones. I'm guessing this is where the word "same" originated in English.

[@nikmpup]

Why?

[@ChainsawGutsfuck2]

The English word "same" has a known etymology. English is a Germanic language and is not related to the Sámi languages which are Uralic languages.

[@39ctg]

I greatly appreciate the documentary but it wouldve been nice to hear them speak without loud voiceovers.

[@augustandjune]

The ancient Sami were likely Siberian based on recent genetic evidence. Of course they changed over time. I definitely have some Central Asia and distant Khanty-Mansi, based on my DNA results.

[@alex.profi27]

They are not

[@augustandjune]

Sorry. But researchers tested ancient bones from Finns/Sami, and the study concluded Siberian ancestry. It shows up in my test. Yes, the Volga area is also there, too. They didn’t originally come from Europe.

[@terracestevenkennedy9198]

I have both sami and Slav DNA.from my mother family side.

[@augustandjune]

Excellent!@@terracestevenkennedy9198

[@andelicaa6304]

​@@alex.profi27they are stop colonizing us in 2024!!

[@Myamirah]

I’d really like to know what the old woman saw at the lake when she was 18 that made her never want to go back again !

[@rpstokesjr]

better yet, id like to hear an anthropologists theory on the connection and similarities between these people and native americans.

[@rubenskiii]

Heya this subject is one of the many things i find very interesting and the connection has been documented already, through genetics, culture, oral history and language. They are not connected directly, as in they came or went to what is now America themselves but they are decendents from the same "group" that lived spread around Siberia. It seems some of that "group" went east and others went west. I say group with "" as this was a process that took many many generations, cultures and what not, and we are not really sure if those people would have seen themselves as being from the same group. Having similar roots left quite a number of similairities and the communities in the modern day have re-established contacts, as they share fates and future threats.

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

​@@rubenskiiithe begining of this video told you where Sami culture came from. And they certainly aren't in the same "group" as native Americans. Cultural similarities exist all over the world, some with no connection or relation use the same tools and technology as people on the other side of the world. Bows for example use the same general design everywhere and yet many cultures that used the bow had no connection with other bow using cultures. Trying so desperately to make all people the same is more harmful to small cultures like this, than helpful.

[@rubenskiii]

@@grizzlyblackpowder1960 genetics certainly showed a connection, as they have ancestors from Siberia deep in time. The people that lived there, which i explicitly called "group" because there is a clear genetic connection. Those ancestors moved around, a lot. This is probably linked with dog domestication as that increased the mobility greatly. From Siberia some of that "group" went west, most of them there being replaced/displaced/absoberbed by or into other "groups" later on, Sami are one of the last of that "original group" in the west. Others went eastward from Siberia, crossing into America. How exactly is unknown but they did. As i stated this took an immense amount of time with multiple cultures, and as i stated it is hard to say if they would even see themselves as part of this one "group". But saying they are not connected is even more harmful as it diminishes the deep links people have. And as for the Sami and Native Americans today: they certainly see the connection, and have been creating bonds and ties, having meetings and visits, supporting eachother. For example there was a group of Sami that went to standing Rock to help.

[@rubenskiii]

@@grizzlyblackpowder1960 as for bows: that technology is old, very old. So old we don't exactly know how old. But there does seem to be a link through people moving around, and trading. Many cultures that use a bow are based on previous cultures that already used the bow. For Africa, Europe and Asia there is a clear connection. One very interesting outlier is Australia, as there the spear thrower was never replaced by the bow. One of the first evidence for bows we have in America for example is arrowheads, and these early stone arrowheads show striking similarities to arrowheads made in eastern Asia at the time. People where way more connected back then already than we give them credit for. Even in Australia, where they didn't use bow and arrow technology they had trading partners that did. It seemed in Australia they chose not to use it, because they did adopt many other technological advances in for example canoe building and stone tool making. Even Captain Cook remarked on that.

[@terratrent6540]

What a rich and beautiful culture

[@TheCasimir94]

Im so sick of dubbing. Just write subtitles. People can read.

[@pbasswil]

I wonder if, in the northern regions, Russian Sami and Finnish Sami are able to ignore the tense border situation, and interact.

[@nikoa97]

Of course everywhere people who get along and ppl who dont. 🇫🇮🇷🇺🇮🇱🇵🇸

[@Aethuviel]

This was the worst dubbing/voice acting I've ever heard. Perhaps not their fault, perhaps they just got handed a script with no context or training that just told to say everything. Can anglophones *please* learn how to use and read subtitles?

[@Aelffwynn]

Most anglophones who watch this type of content are happy to read subtitles. Dubbing is more common in other countries.

[@stormygeo]

Where is sadozera lake? I have no idea if I am spelling it correctly. The lake that the shaman told her not to visit.

[@nadezhdaversh]

Lake Seydozero (Russian: Сейдозеро, romanized: Seydozero, Kildin Sami: Сейдъявврь, romanized: Sejdjavvr') is located on the Kola Peninsula, in Murmansk Oblast within the Lake Lovozero and ensures runoff to the river Seydyavryok. "Seyd" in the translation from the Sami language means "sacred".

[@lilyflower5576]

Is Santa Sami 😱

[@nikoa97]

Fuck santa

[@gregcrowe8885]

Awesome Beautiful ❤️ i want to live there help protect wildlife the land

[@Travel.and.Nature]

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[@TheHelixballerone]

Where are the Simi people from originally? Are they indigenous or did they migrate to this area years ago.

[@nikoa97]

All ppl migrated from Judea. Sami and karelians the first ones in the northern Europe.

[@nn3514]

When the Sami arrived in many Nordic areas, the indigenous white residents had been there for generations.

[@thomaswayneward]

Sami are white people.

[@Langkowski]

@@thomaswayneward Sami are seen as different from the other white people in the area. I have nothing against the Sami, but I'm sick of the narrative that they are the natives and had their land stolen from them by intruders.

[@kimberlybates6261]

They were nomadic back in the day. They followed the reindeer.

[@medusaslair]

@@kimberlybates6261 - No, they didn't. The Sami came to Finland somewhere around 2500 years to 3000 years ago, then around 2000 years to 2500 years ago a group of them wandered into Sweden and Norway. They are not indigenous to Scandinavia, people had been living in Finland, Sweden and Norway for more than 10 000 years before the Sami came there. The Sami come from the Kola peninsula in Russia. They came as hunterers, they caught wild reindeer in Scandinavia and claimed them as their property.

[@medusaslair]

Actually, people had been living in Scandinavia for more than 10 000 years when the Sami wandered into their countries around 2000-2500 years ago.

[@MichaelBone-hj7sr]

Is True that the Sàmi are DNA Connected to North American Indigenous tribes? Via Ancient Migrations across the Arctic Bridge Bering Strait? Ive always been drawn to Your Tribal Aesthetics and Have Finnish DNA. Maybe its actually Sàmi DNA I have?