The sami "capital" city is not in Russia, its Jokkmokk in Sweden, in Russia there are not many sami left, most are living in Norway and Sweden and Finland.
@@Sondre_Husby Jokkmokk is also significant in Sápmi so not incorrect. Both Jokkmokk and Kárášjohka/Karasjok are important centers for the Sámi people, depending on the perspective. The first one for Swedish sami and biggest area and the second one for Norwegian sami.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing film and this lovely family opening their home and hearts to all of us around the world. Sending lots of love from North Carolina, USA
We also have Sami people in the middle east of Norway(North Hedmark and Trøndelag)) and middle west in Sweden(Härjedalen, Jämtland), who have reindeers. There are several sami languages in Norway and Sweden. The sami in the south of Norway doesn’t speak the same language as those in the north.
@@didntknoicouldchangethis we also have some other minorities, like the Romani people and the lesser known Kvener, they have also their own languages. Kvener are some times put in the same category as Sami, but they are not Sami. And then we have Finns, a people coming from Finland, through Sweden during 15 and 1600s. They were known for their special way to grow rye, they burned down the forest and sowed rye and got an amazing big harvest. They often lived a a special timbered cottage, with no chimney, the smoke vent out of a hole in the roof, and the fireplace were a big massive stove known as “masseovn” here in Norway. It retains the heat for hours and hours after you have lit up it. They did not speak Finish, they were an own people. Today they have their own flag and are stated to be a minority.
I went to the World Indigenous Conference with my mum and a Yuin elder in Canberra around 1980, a long time ago. Many tribal nations from around the world, many with their own stories of wonder and also pain. Sami herders were there too, about 5 or 6 of them in their beautiful national dress. The major impression of them was a irrepressible joy that could not be denied. Loved them.
All people who descend from ancient Europeans are indigenous, not just Sami. Sami actually were LATER than the Scandinavians. No shade to the Sami, but they're not the only indigenous Europeans.
One thing Ive noticed about native peoples around the world is their innocence. You can definitely see how Europeans 500 years ago took advantage of that. And here we are today.
Yeah old time full sami like my grand father looked very east asian/inuit native american but now we are all basically half something else from our white neighbours. We are originally from mix of samoyed type people from siberia and europeans when our siberian ancestors migrated to europes side 4000 years ago and mixed with locals. Nganasan and nenets living in north asia are our close relatives as they came from same group of people that split back then to different directions.
@Viso333 No, it was not. Stop acting like you know shit. Just because your grandfather or whatever did not have blomd hair, does not mean it was uncommon.
@@sunyata7304 That is a shame, I think christianity has a lot to offer the world but I also think authentic Shamanism has an important part to play as well
The word "indigenous" is more of a political term. It's been narrowly defined in a way that deliberately excludes ethnic Europeans. Looking at what's being done in Europe by globalists, it's easy to see why.
Have massive respect for the Sámi. But they are not the last indegenous groups. The Irish, Basque, Welsh, Slavs, Uralics ect are extremely old. The Irish and Welsh in paticular have been inhabitants if Ireland and Britain for 10,000 years. But perhaps because we are the ruling classes of our respective nations we don't get out in as indegenous anymore. But in my view, the Irish are indegenous people. And so is most of Europe
No. They are Native to Scandinavia, but not indigenous. Indigenous is a political and protective status they don't qualify for. They are majority populations in power.
@@didntknoicouldchangethis I am im Norway, and a 78 year old veteran of the cold war. And there never was enough sami soldieres to make a regiment. Most of them belong to one of two infantry batallions in our northern brigade. My experience with them was in the so called"hunter" platoons, a rather special band of guys. Only about 60 "hunters" in a regiment. (Field intelligence)
As sami i have to say this video is full of kind of partly inaccurate information and kind of badly done but i dont understand why are you so bothered about the pink haired girl in thumbnail. Honestly most of these people in this video do not look like they have much sami genetics left anyway. We are most very mixed with our white neighbours now in modern time and most of us are more something else than sami truthfully. Full sami would look much more mixed inuit/east asian type like some families still look that did not marry as much from our neighbours. Originally we mostly look similar to mixed race east asian white and mixed race inuit/nativeamerican and white. Our ancestry came from mix of ancient samoyede type people migrating from north asia to northern europe 4000 years ago and mixing with the locals and replacing their culture. Google nganasan and nenets people. They are our close relatives but they did not mix as they staid in asias side so their like us but full asian. We are like them but very mixed now in modern time. Im mix of sami and finnish and look lot like sami,, north asian ish kind of but i have blond hair and colors from non sami side of ancestry. There was no blond sami really 100 years ago many yet.
I’m confused why a Sami with pink hair and septum piercing would be weird? Unless there’s something cultural against it or something that I don’t know about. They live in 2024 with the rest of us. Being of a particular ethnic group doesn’t imply that a person lives exactly like their ancestors did.
History and anthropology interests me... I am also the daughter of Hungarian refugees, so Finno- Ugric and Ural- Altaic cultures particularly fascinate me. Are the Sami descended from the Siberian taiga region? Are they genetically related to the Mansi and Khanty? What language group does their language belong to? ( Is it Finno- Ugric?) What is their ancient religion like? ( Is it similar to Tengri shamanism?)
@@tharnganbenedict24 Expect we sami are much more siberian and lived like siberian nenets our relatives. Culturally unrelated to finns or hungarians truthfully. But now in modern time most sami are very mixed with our whiter neighbours so its harder to tell difference.
Yes our ancestry is from same people as nganasan and nenets people ancestry living in siberia but we are mixed with northern europeans. Yes also khanty and mansi people are relatives who are also mixed like we sami are. Modern sami look very white because truthfully most of us are more something else than sami blood. Full sami looked like east asian/inuit nativeamerican mixed to white. Now only some sami look sami sami as our "race" is kind of going extinct because we are marrying so much nonsami white folk.
This group is very interesting because they get no coverage compared to the groups living in the Nordic countries. They seem the most interesting to me. Also they live in the poorest country and get the least amount of help. They seem a little more hardened and down to earth. Just a little more imho. All are awesome tho. Sami in general true salt of the earth people.
There are more, like Komi, Nenets, etc, very interesting. And the areas where they live have almost no tourists, even much less than Scandinavia and beautiful nature.
The narrator appears to believe there is only one Sami language in fact there were nine at one time with seven still spoken today. Also Sami clothing in Finland is much more colourful than what is shown here.Other than that wishing all the best to the Sami who survived the soviets.
great video! I love how you bring attention to lesser-known cultures. just a thought, though-while it’s fascinating to learn about these ethnic groups, I wonder if focusing on them might overshadow the struggles of more prominent minorities in Europe. what do you all think?
The last ethnic group? What are the wallons, the sardinians, sicilians, Portuguese, vasques, Catalonias, English, Irish, Scott's, Welsh, German, austrian,Fleming, polish, etc?
The LEAST KNOWN, not the last ethnic group. If you are to list ethnic groups, you don't have to go further away from the Samis to list Norwegians, Swedes and Finns btw.
You are spreading misinformation and unscientific bs. The Sami aren’t indigenous in Scandinavia. There were South Scandinavians living in these areas for thousands of years before Sami lived there. No Sami artifacts in northern Scandinavia until mid Bronze Age. The oldest South Scandinavian artifacts are from Mesolithic Stone Age.
First of all, indigenous is not a synonym for being first. It is a political and protective status, given to certain groups that have a long historical connection to a given region, that have faced colonization and assimilation politics, and that are a minority.
@ Well the Sami is still not indigenous as the areas they migrated to in Scandinavia, from the area around Ural, already was inhabited by “south Scandinavians” or Proto Germanic people. A lie doesn’t become true only because you repeat it. In the southern half of Sweden there have been a Sami population.
@@hemligx-sson8202 There are no archaeological evidence of any Germanic people inhabiting the northern parts of Norway and Sweden before the Sami. Yes, not of all of Sapmi was inhabited by the Sami first, like Trøndelag is an example of. There, Nordic Bronze Age people - the ones who developed into Germanics - inhabited the lands before the Sami. But it is still considered part of Sapmi. Why you may wonder? Because the Sami were present in the region before the creation of the modern Norwegian state. North of Trøndelag, however, the oldest human traces belongs to those who developed into the Samis.
@ I wrote proto Germanic and there are lots of artifacts in northern Sweden much earlier than Sami. The Sami didn’t arrive in Sweden until late Bronze age, so they are the foreign invaders. Btw, the oldest skull found in northern Norway wasn’t Sami.
@@hemligx-sson8202 Proto Germanic are the people who developed into the Germanics, and eventually into modern day Scandinavians. Using the term Germanic, refers to Scandinavians, throughout history. There are no archaeological evidence of Germanic people inhabiting Northern Sweden before the Sami. And I challange you to refer me to any archaeological paper stating otherwise.
I didn't know about Saami until I started listening to Korpiklaani. In a way I envy these people; I was born in my country, I grew up in my country but....I don't have the same spiritual connection with my country as the Saami do with theirs. I wish I could have that. *sigh*
@@bunnybrown809 *sigh* I've done that but it doesn't work, it's a very different environment down here and I never felt like I belonged. Hence the envy for the same spiritual connection Sami has. Yeah, I have no Finnish or Sami ancestry but the songs of Korpiklaani resonates with me.
My mom was Sami, My Dad Norse. Little known fact, there was quite a lot of Samis that immigrated to the US so there must be a whole lot of Sami DNA in America too today. I too live in the US, my son here is a Mix of at least 5 Main DNA strains. Norse, Sami, Japanese, Cherokee, and English settlers that was onboard Mayflower.
In the end the narrator say's that the Sami have lived in the land for "hundreds of years". Actually it's more like 50.000 years, if I'm not mistaken. (EDIT: Sorry I was wrong, I was mixing it up with Australian aboriginals) I'm half Northern Norwegian myself, and have some Sami traits after my grandmother. She looked like a native American, with high cheekbones.
You are mistaken. Im sami and our siberian ancestors migrated here from north asia about 4000 years ago and mixed with locals and our culture replaced the older ones. There was no sami before 4000 years ago truthfully as we were born from that mix of ancient samoyed type culture and local euros.
@@nickbamber268 Oldest sami burial genetic and archeological findings are about 4000 years old. Theres no findings older than that and the older findings are some other earlier peoples culture that sami culture replaced coming from east. Its also said in sami stories that our ancestors came from behind eastern star where sun rises from and that northern europe was populated by other people our other side of ancestry our asian ancestors mixed with
Last year i was backpacking in Sweden taking the longest night train ever. At one of the first stops to the north i get to share a cigarette with a woman who was Sami and we talked for half an hour about how amazing (and hard) was her life walking like 300km every year living around the reindeers of her family.
Very interesting - I love the way they live and have strong family ties and much respect for nature. My mother was from North Finland and I have a small Sami doll she got us from Finland. So maybe because we are related to Sami people!? 😍 Greetings to all Sami of the Nordic countries 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
The people under the lake are the same people under the sea and in the mountains we can't go. We know of them only from our friend. Great friend, who came to meet us. He skirted the rules because he is behavioral scientist. We asked him so many questions for a decade. He is the only real outside perspective because he is from another world. What we have learned is beyond incredible about ourselves, our past, present, and future. We are held at length until we earn the recognition. As a world we are tested. The results are still unknown but before covid we were about 30% of the planet was willing to accept advancing to level technology. Nothing can stop what is coming.
LOL ... most Sami live in the city of Oslo, not northern Norway, and are indistinguishable from us :) Their language is totally different thou, and their music, JOIK!
"Indistinguishable" from you only because most of sami living in oslo are very very mixed with our white neighbours. Old time sami like my grand father look nothing like white norwegians. Dark and more like mixed inuit native american/mixed east asian. But many young sami still look very north asian though in families that did not get in to that marrying whites because embarrassed to be sami bs in eugenic era.. I do kind of look siberian shaped but im blond coloured from finnish side of ancestry. Im sami reindeer men and finnish potato farmer mix haha.
These Sami people have nothing in common with us and aren't apart of our people. They belong in Asia Where they came from. They migrated here and replaced the people living here. They are NOT European at all.
@@IchigoOren that is very racist fascist opinion from you smh... Yes my ancestors migrated from north asia but theres no rules where one race belongs. We have lived here for about 4000 years in some areas. Everyone comes from somewhere else also you nordick germadicks. Both us siberians and you germanic white folk are here invaders. The original north european were paleo european hunter gatherer. We siperian came from east and you germanic came from south and the original people got pressed between us until they joined us both. With your logic you dont also belong.
@@Viso333 No, Samis of the old did not look Native American or like Inuits. They pretty much look how they look today. Samis are a mix, a product of several migrations into Scandinavia. Some of these are even shared with Scandinavians. Besides, Scandinavians and Samis have co existed in Scandinavia and interracted with eachother for thousands of years.
This is so sad. I watched another documentary about Sami people who were reindeer herders in I think Finland, but maybe Sweden or Norway. I don't know if it is representative, but their culture seems to be doing much better in that area. It's sad that that isn't true of the Sami in Russia
I never heard of Sami until I was 27 years old, when someone asked me I was Sami. Interestingly, I had been asked if I am Eskimo when visiting relatives in Canada. I find it amusing all the different ethnicities people guess I am.
Finns are former Chinese-Vietnamese. Which came to the Russian area (Aryan R1a + R1b) and lost their Mongoloid identity. The Scandinavians descended from the Russians and from Yugolslavian (Haplogroup I) In the Far East live black Mongoloid reindeer herders. Finns are mestizos. Just like the Baltic states. (Between Aryan Russians and polar reindeer herders) :) Both Finns and Samo have genes of Mongoloids (N ), Russians (R1a) and Swedes (ex Yugoslavian (I ).)
@@mito88 There are scientific answers, there are religious - political, etc. BELIEVERS, fanatics, etc. they are often not ready with real answers. "Mr. Hitler. You are a Jew, or rather an Ethiopian. You have haplogroup E. You are an African. And you are fighting against direct Russian Aryans." It is clear that all are mestizos of the local region and the global region :)
@@mito88 The Urals is a Russian region. What is now, what is ancient. (the region disappeared in the middle period, maybe due to a catastrophe. I don't know) Sex took place at the meeting place between ancient Russians and Asian Mongoloids. While they were walking to Finland, the Baltics or Hungary.... They dissolved, dissolved, dissolved. The Sami have Russian genes (R1a); Russian Volga Genes (R1b = genes of Western Europeans, they came from the Volga); Arab-Jewish-Caucasian genes (J); Yugoslav-Shvedov (I) and Asian N. There was a glacier on Europa 10,000 years - 5,000 years ago. Russians lived in southern Russia, and Africans lived in Africa. While it was melting, while there was dampness, while the trees grew (at first small, then large). Deer hunters ran across the tundra. (Now the tundra has disappeared and moved completely north)
I used to have contacts with some Sámi people when I lived in Helsinki, they sometimes come there to sell their peculiar stuff. A very interesting people indeed.
Can someone please explain to me the narrators’ backgrounds? I thought they were Americans at first because of their accents, then I thought they were AI because of the intonation and vocabulary, then I thought they were Slavic or Finno-Ugric or something, and now I’m just confused 😂
yes, and they are saying that the sami are the last indigenous people of europe like the rest of us don't even exist. what makes these people think that they can say these sort of things.
@@paulk84 that is true, i dont know why all people say it but politicians say that so the people (non sami) in for example Sweden gonna submit and give away land for example and feel sorry for them and from what it seems like they should also have speciell rights, more or less politicians want to make sami people abow those that built the country and came before them. Playing minorities against majority people.
Instead of brutally destroying the original soundtrack, it shall be better to just put subtitles, like civilized people do. As it is now, it is completely unwatchable.
I agree about the subtitles, the production doesn't do the culture justice. I wanted to hear the Sami language. They talk about how very few speak the language and it's dubbed over in English so that you can't hear it. SMH, what a shame. They should make another version with subtitles.
@@Kolemjen We sami are from full blooded samoyed type east asian genetic people though that mixed with europeans 4000 years ago. Nganasan and nenets our relatives are full asian. The people that migrated 4000 years ago from siberia to europes side were pretty much full asian
We are literally half from same people as Nganasan and Nenets came from. Our relatives who are full asian. Tribes that split to migrate to europes side mixed with european locals and that mix created us sami people 4000 years ago
My people lived in teepees, lived off the land, saw the divine in all things. So, I'm watching and listening to this, and I see something familiar and I hear a terribly familiar story of what was, and what is dying.
Beautiful people! Traditions are crucial because they represent a culture. However, there is nothing wrong with progress. Progress in the direction of improving basic living-standards, such as health care and knowledge. When we observe the modern cultures of our world, they all have a primitive past. Changing for the good is something we shouldn't avoid.
I’d love to see their reactions to watching a real American cowboy who’s mastered the lasso. I’m sure if they were taught the American lasso way they would greatly benefit from it & it would definitely make the lasso competition more fun & entertaining & would attract everyone from all around the country to learn or even just to see the new techniques.
The ladys face has some classic features of some tribes here. High cheekbones. The ancient migrations via the artic possible examples. The husband not so much. The tepees got me thinking. And the tone of chanting. Now the kandbridge theory is shown to be the only way people came to N America. Mixing of multiple gene pools and cultural ways. Facinating. Im part indian and studied many years of american( N and S) history. Blue eyed light haired mandans etc. It all makes sence. We are human 1st.
All northern people must have met at some point Sami, Inuit, siberian, etc. It's annoying that they say Europe and the Americas never met until the conquest only Asia and the Americas? Why are there runes in Nova Scotia? Why do the Sami wear seal skin and live in tepees? We are all related and beautifully human.
Google Nganasan and Nenets they are close related to us Sami but their not mixed like us. Sami were born 4000 years ago from siberian ancient samoyed type culture migrating to europe from siberia and mixing with locals. Old time sami look very inuit/east asian/native american mixed people. We are now all and most very very mixed with our white neighbours so the people in video dont look exactly much sami. The culture of this siberian ancestral tribe was somewhat mix of east asian and inuit. Watch movie called White moss about Nenets and you see what i mean. Its in youtube i think still. And watch Nganasan videos.
Yes but culturally not at all basically. Sami culture is very much siberian samoyed type mixed in to northern paleo european with some influence from white neighbours living south of sami. Mari peoples culture is basically old time pagan iranian culture. Nothing common with sami. Honestly i have theory its even possible that mari and udmurt are the most eastern samis that got assimilated in to iranian white peoples farmer culture in medieval era which is maybe why they have stories that their ancestors are mix of people that were pulled by reindeer from north and other side ancestry pulled by bulls/horses from south. Mari culture is not related to sami and mari are very much european iranian old time pagan culture when you look in to it and even their name Mari is literally from old iranian language meaning mortal but their genetics is lot like sami. So yeah basically they are lost sami that got taken over by white iranian farmer folk culture kind of when you think about it🤔Im not joking by the way. Mari culture is literally iranian pagan culture identically and the name mari came from those peoples language Thats how the white finnougrians were basically born. From early proto proto siberian asian euro mixed sami that got absorded in to white farmer folks cultures of volgan iranians and balto slavs of estonia. Sami are the proto proto sami that lived in northern areas in siberian way and did not get run over by the southerners farmer cultures. Nobody just does not say it straight like i say haha
@@Viso333 Cultural similarities between Sami and Mari are there. These people aren't as different as you think. Only because Mari are farmers doesn't make them completely unrelated to Sami. Iranian influences are (at least) in Sami languages too, just read linguistic works. I think you are somewhat confused about various Uralic ethnic groups. Maris have clear cultural similarities to Ob-Ugrians (Khanty and Mansi). On other hand, Ob-Ugrians are also really culturally similar to Saami. They also have Iranian influences. These all people are connected each to other. Mostly "insiders" can really see that, the people, who belong to these cultures (I am one of them - I belong to one of these ethnic groups). I absolutely can see similarities and commonalities in all three - Sami, Mari and Ob-Ugrians. From clothing to religions. I can give you exact examples, if you want. As for the Samoyeds, they are a different folk. I know many people confuse Nenets with Northern Khanty or something, but really, they have large differences in cultures. It is the Khanty culture that Sami have more similarities to, not Nenets. But of course, one can see commonalities between Sami and Nenets cultures.
@@Kolemjen im not confused at all. i think you dont understand what iam saying fully. Both sami and khanty came from ancient samoyed type culture migrating to ural volga region from siberia and mixing with european people met there. Nenets and nganasan are the ones that did not mix and did not get as much influence as they lived deeper in siberia. Both sami and khanty are similar to samoyedic people but mixed. Mari have really nothing from the ancient samoyed type ancestry left culturally. There was baltoslavics in Estonia and iranic people in south of volga and ural. Majority of finnougrians are really culturally almost fully iranian pagan or baltoslavs. Identical literally from culture, living, clothing, etc. Expect sami, khanty and mansi people who lived in more remote northern areas and did not get fully assimilated to those southern neighbours so the siberian did not disappear from us. Mari culture and all FU living volga area are mostly iranian pagan by culture with only little paleo european and siberian inlfluence. Sami culture is mostly siberian and paleo european mix with influence from southern neighboring people germanic, balts, iranic. Yes there is some similarities with Sami and Mari but its very oppositio cultures and actually big difference. I know its now in modern time harder to see difference, because we sami are now in modern time very mixed with finns, russians, norwegians, swedes. Nenets and nganasan are full siberian. Sami, khanty and mansi people are mixed siberian euro "half blood". Rest of the finnougric are quarter or less and culturally basically fully balt/volgan iranian that just kept talkin the siberian language because it was the male lineages language in patriark society leed by men. Half siberian male lineage but mostly white female lineage. But yeah culturally theres really nothing from the original uralic speaking ancestors in finns, karelians, Mari, Komi, udmurt etc. Uralic speakers were full asian from siberia. The iranians living in south of volga got swiped off later by huns, mongols and slavic colonisation. Im finn and sami mix and have to say modern Sami culture and appearance is very very europeanised. Old time sami looked very north asian and there was no these blond white sami 100 years ago many. We are very mixed now and only some families look ethnic sami.
@@Viso333 I see now where your opinions come from, your angle. But I must disagree with you! Because I can see that you aren't correct (no offence intended). I am a member of one of Ob-Ugric peoples, I have met Mari people plenty times and I have pretty good idea about them. I myself (my facial features) look like a member of my ethnic group. Yet I look not much different from Maris. I also sometimes wear my own traditional clothing. Mari people have been coming to me and touched my jewellery, and said "it looks just like our Monisto!" If I was wearing one of those Khanty or Mansi shirts with wool embroidery, I'd be the star, the center of attention for Maris! As it is something in Mari culture as well and even considered sacred. Mari people have been coming to me to speak, invited me to their events etc. I am even in their own chat group by their own invintation! Mari people have attended also Ob-Ugric religion prayer ritual, where I also attended, and they said then that so many things are similar. We can basically go to worship together! So you are really wrong about Mari people. They have a lot of similarities to us, Ob-Ugrians. And I can also see similarities between Maris and Sámi. There are so many stereotypes about our erhnic groups, which form a lot of misleading information. As for Samoyedic culture - it is different in so many ways from Ob-Ugric one, even conflicting. I don't see how they would be our "forefathers?" Sure, we did mix with them (one of my ancestors down the line was in fact Nenets), but this ancestor was forced to adapt to our culture. There are some fundamental differences between Ob-Ugrian and Samoyedic cultures that outsiders aren't aware about.
I love visiting Finland, then I like to think I get the general vibe about the land and it's Folk, helps to be curious and respectful, in what depth and amount, well?
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Yes. Remember when she did her makeup differently and everyone though she had cosmetic surgery? They were speculating she was trying to look less Sámi at the time. That's the only reason I know who the Sámi people are.
Poor Sami who live in the russian ditactorship, almost extinct. At least to ones who live in Finland, Sweden and Norway have incentives to preserve theyr culture and language, in Russia the colonization is and was much more harsh
@@livefastdieyoung8703 I have Native American blood and am a member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma. We are a sovereign nation and are happy to preserve our values of Faith, Family, and Culture no matter where we end up living.
Your propaganda comment reflects ignorant hatred for Russians. Compared to American and British where in just a few centuries there has been zero chance of native people surviving well in their homelands and maintaining their languages and cultures, ethnic Russians are historically tolerant and respectful. The Anglo-American attitude has been to wipeout groups believed to be inferior by forcing assimilation,conquering their lands force them to surrendering wealth and independence. Americans/British basically committed many acts of genocide towards Native Americans upon reaching their lands and meanwhile ethnic Russians have shown respect for others during most of that same time period. Today, Russia is a diverse multiethnic society with 120 ethnic groups, many with their own national territories, speaking 100 languages. The most likely explanation for decline minority population in Russia is young people by choice moving away to find better jobs with better pay instead of the America’s version of tragic history which is forcing people into reservations away from their prime homelands with trails of tears and death.
They don't all live on reservations, but the ones who choose to live on reservations can continue to live near complete autonomy from the U.S. government. They have their own laws and judicial system, their own traditions, and are exempt from paying U.S. taxes. The Native Americans are far from gone, in fact, there are millions of them that continue to co-exist in the U.S.
Sometimes, it's so amazing how different people are in different places in the world. Do they know or care what they are missing out on? Probably not. Do they know how much the world 🌎 and people have evolved? Probably not. They aren't evolving by choice. Those who stay stuck in a repeat will miss everything new. After all, Mother Earth is often changing. Those two like being the way they are, and it's all good, but they could be having a life that is even better. They are a cute couple. 😊
How exactly Sami are Indigenous to Scandinavia? They are literally Asians. Fins, Estons, Magyars and Samis are all originating from Asia. Infact they are all relatives.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 No they did not, the indo europeans was in scandinavia 2000 years before the sami. Indo-European language came to Scandinavia about 5,000 years ago. The first Sámi group came to the area at least 3500-3600 years ago. Finns have lived in Scandinavia 2,800 years ago. It must be added that there were several separate groups for both Finns and Sámi. Sámi and the Finns are also two completely different groups.
It is actually contested, as both groups arrived in Scandinavia from Asia before written history, but from different directions. Both groups are native, as opposed to romani and judaics.
Of course Sami people have usually purple, pink or blue Hair, Piercings and Tattoos all over their body, mostly written lines like "YOLO" or "believe in yourself". They are usually gender-fluid and their people are known for fighting patriarchy. Video fails to adress all that sadly since it seems to be part of the patriarchy.
Absolutely, but I did not see it on my grandfathers nabours when I were small, eighter pink hair or piercing…. Someone maybe learnt about it as minor residents in the capital, where the majority moved to hide their etnicity. Oslo is the major ethnic center today….
4000 years ago ancient samoyed type culture from siberia north asia migrated to europes side and mixed with locals. This mix created early sami type culture. That is our origin story shortly. But most sami you see nowadays do not look like old time sami because we are all now mixed with our white neighbours very much. Google Nganasan and Nenets people. Our close relatives that staid in asia side and did not mix with europeans. Nganasan are full 100% asian.
@@Viso333 Yes that makes sense now. Siberian much like the people that crossed our Bering strait. I so admire the culture, I love the bright clothing. I love they don't pollute and kind of just want to be let be. Close to the earth. Quiet dignity. We could learn a thing or two.
They had Darker skin and more Asian Features but Mixing with Finns N1a1 Swedes I1a , germanics R1b , Slavs and Rus R1a over 1000s years has change that. Much like Native Americans of over 200 years ago.
@@rickiegable3719 Most sami do not even look like sami anyway nowadays so why bothered about single one with pink hair. Honestly. We are overly mixed with our white neighbours since 1850s if not earlier,,, now to point we are going extinct really probably. We are originally mix of north asian and white and we really did not look this white and blond until very recently. Have you seen Nganasan? Close full asian relatives of us sami that staid deep in asia side when the tribes split 4000 years ago.
i remember reading an article some time ago, about how some Sámi believe they are more Sámi than others (i think it was those living closer to the coast that were considered "less"). fucking idiotic division and prejudice inside their own community...
why are all their clothes cleaner than storebought? kitchenware and else is also like brandnew. they look more like tourists. even the reindeer act like they from game of thrones.
why would they be dirty? kitchenware doesnt age if you take care of it properly. but sure they and the reindeers are all actors, definetly.......xD :'D LOL
The sami "capital" city is not in Russia, its Jokkmokk in Sweden, in Russia there are not many sami left, most are living in Norway and Sweden and Finland.
no its in Kárášjohka/karasjok in finnmárku/finnmark, norga/norge/norway
@@Sondre_Husby Jokkmokk is also significant in Sápmi so not incorrect. Both Jokkmokk and Kárášjohka/Karasjok are important centers for the Sámi people, depending on the perspective. The first one for Swedish sami and biggest area and the second one for Norwegian sami.
@@roxpace true, but if you search the sámi capitol kárášjohka comes up
@@roxpace
The actual Sami look brown
-COMANCHE NATION
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Thank you so much for sharing this amazing film and this lovely family opening their home and hearts to all of us around the world. Sending lots of love from North Carolina, USA
We also have Sami people in the middle east of Norway(North Hedmark and Trøndelag)) and middle west in Sweden(Härjedalen, Jämtland), who have reindeers. There are several sami languages in Norway and Sweden. The sami in the south of Norway doesn’t speak the same language as those in the north.
That is a great fact to know, and appreciated
@@didntknoicouldchangethis we also have some other minorities, like the Romani people and the lesser known Kvener, they have also their own languages. Kvener are some times put in the same category as Sami, but they are not Sami. And then we have Finns, a people coming from Finland, through Sweden during 15 and 1600s. They were known for their special way to grow rye, they burned down the forest and sowed rye and got an amazing big harvest. They often lived a a special timbered cottage, with no chimney, the smoke vent out of a hole in the roof, and the fireplace were a big massive stove known as “masseovn” here in Norway. It retains the heat for hours and hours after you have lit up it. They did not speak Finish, they were an own people. Today they have their own flag and are stated to be a minority.
You also have the Middle East in Sweden now
@@nazmorgan8696 I was about to say a similar thing ahah
Are they a branch of Swedish ethnic group (Germanic) or are they a branch of Slavs? It's like they are White Eskimos
I went to the World Indigenous Conference with my mum and a Yuin elder in Canberra around 1980, a long time ago.
Many tribal nations from around the world, many with their own stories of wonder and also pain.
Sami herders were there too, about 5 or 6 of them in their beautiful national dress. The major impression of them was a irrepressible joy that could not be denied. Loved them.
Sami people i have known were very warm.
All people who descend from ancient Europeans are indigenous, not just Sami. Sami actually were LATER than the Scandinavians. No shade to the Sami, but they're not the only indigenous Europeans.
One thing Ive noticed about native peoples around the world is their innocence. You can definitely see how Europeans 500 years ago took advantage of that. And here we are today.
@@hummingbirdofgumption3263 Plot twist, the Scandinavians were Sami 10,000 years ago. And Scandinavians were darker skinned.
@@shutinalleywhite people just popped up out of the ground and started stealing everyone's land and cultures 🙄
My mother’s Sami family is mixed. Some are blond, some look like Navaho. They live in Norway.
Yeah old time full sami like my grand father looked very east asian/inuit native american but now we are all basically half something else from our white neighbours. We are originally from mix of samoyed type people from siberia and europeans when our siberian ancestors migrated to europes side 4000 years ago and mixed with locals. Nganasan and nenets living in north asia are our close relatives as they came from same group of people that split back then to different directions.
@@Viso333 Old time full Samis pretty much looks like modern Samis. Some blond, some darker feutures.
@@daginn896 in old time blond sami was rare. Stop talking about things you dont know
@Viso333 No, it was not. Stop acting like you know shit. Just because your grandfather or whatever did not have blomd hair, does not mean it was uncommon.
Thank you for sharing. It would be nice to hear the peoples voices and the language and instead read subtitles.
absolutely devastated that the shamanistic aspect of the Sami was left as almost a side note at the end and barely explained
There is no need for it.
@@PunkDogCreations it is an important part of their culture, customs and traditions
@@Echemusic Except for new age shamanism, it is not practiced anymore by the majority population, sami are all Christians today.
@@sunyata7304 That is a shame, I think christianity has a lot to offer the world but I also think authentic Shamanism has an important part to play as well
Amonita shamanism? If I recall.
the last indigenous people?? what? in what way are the rest of us europeans not indigenous?
We appeared out of thin air apparantly
I agree. Terrible pr0paganda.
The word "indigenous" is more of a political term. It's been narrowly defined in a way that deliberately excludes ethnic Europeans. Looking at what's being done in Europe by globalists, it's easy to see why.
Have massive respect for the Sámi. But they are not the last indegenous groups. The Irish, Basque, Welsh, Slavs, Uralics ect are extremely old. The Irish and Welsh in paticular have been inhabitants if Ireland and Britain for 10,000 years. But perhaps because we are the ruling classes of our respective nations we don't get out in as indegenous anymore. But in my view, the Irish are indegenous people. And so is most of Europe
Good point! the rest of us are just as indigenous as they are if not more.
White Norwegians and Swedes are the Indigenous people of Scandinavia (including the northern parts).
No. They are Native to Scandinavia, but not indigenous. Indigenous is a political and protective status they don't qualify for. They are majority populations in power.
One more brainwashed by the Scandinavian parrallel to Aryan Brotherhood.
Yes. We all descend from the Scythians, who all descended from the Israelites deported to Assyria.
@@daginn896 You are wrong. White Scandinavians are both indigenous and native to Scandinavia.
What do you mean the last one? Europeans are native to Europe, each one lives in their own ethnic group that gave rise to countries.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, appreciate it 👍
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.
I have had boys of the Sami people as soldiers in my platoons. Tough guys, but treat them right!
How diverse a military regiment?!! Where are you in this beautiful world?
@@didntknoicouldchangethis I am im Norway, and a 78 year old veteran of the cold war. And there never was enough sami soldieres to make a regiment. Most of them belong to one of two infantry batallions in our northern brigade.
My experience with them was in the so called"hunter" platoons, a rather special band of guys. Only about 60 "hunters" in a regiment. (Field intelligence)
@@WillyUstad-nu5krwow, this is very interesting! Wouldn’t have considered “modern” Sami soldiers, otherwise. Thanks for sharing!
I must have missed the Sami with the bright pink hair and the septum piercing 😂
They could have put someone “normal” in thumbnail.
LOL. I was looking out for her too.
Yes, I too had my dreams dashed. 😂
As sami i have to say this video is full of kind of partly inaccurate information and kind of badly done but i dont understand why are you so bothered about the pink haired girl in thumbnail.
Honestly most of these people in this video do not look like they have much sami genetics left anyway. We are most very mixed with our white neighbours now in modern time and most of us are more something else than sami truthfully. Full sami would look much more mixed inuit/east asian type like some families still look that did not marry as much from our neighbours.
Originally we mostly look similar to mixed race east asian white and mixed race inuit/nativeamerican and white.
Our ancestry came from mix of ancient samoyede type people migrating from north asia to northern europe 4000 years ago and mixing with the locals and replacing their culture.
Google nganasan and nenets people. They are our close relatives but they did not mix as they staid in asias side so their like us but full asian. We are like them but very mixed now in modern time.
Im mix of sami and finnish and look lot like sami,, north asian ish kind of but i have blond hair and colors from non sami side of ancestry. There was no blond sami really 100 years ago many yet.
I’m confused why a Sami with pink hair and septum piercing would be weird? Unless there’s something cultural against it or something that I don’t know about. They live in 2024 with the rest of us. Being of a particular ethnic group doesn’t imply that a person lives exactly like their ancestors did.
History and anthropology interests me... I am also the daughter of Hungarian refugees, so Finno- Ugric and Ural- Altaic cultures particularly fascinate me. Are the Sami descended from the Siberian taiga region? Are they genetically related to the Mansi and Khanty? What language group does their language belong to? ( Is it Finno- Ugric?) What is their ancient religion like? ( Is it similar to Tengri shamanism?)
They are a finno ugric group like the Finns and Hungarians.
@@tharnganbenedict24 Expect we sami are much more siberian and lived like siberian nenets our relatives. Culturally unrelated to finns or hungarians truthfully. But now in modern time most sami are very mixed with our whiter neighbours so its harder to tell difference.
Yes our ancestry is from same people as nganasan and nenets people ancestry living in siberia but we are mixed with northern europeans. Yes also khanty and mansi people are relatives who are also mixed like we sami are.
Modern sami look very white because truthfully most of us are more something else than sami blood.
Full sami looked like east asian/inuit nativeamerican mixed to white. Now only some sami look sami sami as our "race" is kind of going extinct because we are marrying so much nonsami white folk.
@@Viso333This is why diversity is bad. It is time to force end diversity.
What a wonderful documentary - thanks as it really is nice to see such interesting cultures.
I wish we saw the other sámi people in the video too, not only the smallest group residing in russia
Thanks, im from swedish lappland, i was just thinking that, why show the smallest group
This group is very interesting because they get no coverage compared to the groups living in the Nordic countries. They seem the most interesting to me. Also they live in the poorest country and get the least amount of help. They seem a little more hardened and down to earth. Just a little more imho. All are awesome tho. Sami in general true salt of the earth people.
@@Stefanonymous but it's very misleading as they don't portray it as sich but rather portray it like..these are THE samis.
I am Hungarian and we think we are releted to Sami 🙏
You are
Yeeeaaahhhh desperately trying to belong.
Ugri
I mean y’all the same species, and can reproduce among each other no problem, so I think you might actually be related
Hungarian language is related to Sami, but it's a very-very distant relative. Lije English and Urdu 😊. Genetically even less.
There are more, like Komi, Nenets, etc, very interesting. And the areas where they live have almost no tourists, even much less than Scandinavia and beautiful nature.
What about the samoyeds?
@niva-vm3vy Similar case. Last summer I took a trip by train to Syktyvkar and Vorkuta. That's the real wilderness and local scattered population.
Sami, Sami, how I love my Sami. I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles my little Sami!
Uh?
Al Jolson? lol
God bless the Sami and all peoples large and small. Amen
The narrator appears to believe there is only one Sami language in fact there were nine at one time with seven still spoken today. Also Sami clothing in Finland is much more colourful than what is shown here.Other than that wishing all the best to the Sami who survived the soviets.
great video! I love how you bring attention to lesser-known cultures. just a thought, though-while it’s fascinating to learn about these ethnic groups, I wonder if focusing on them might overshadow the struggles of more prominent minorities in Europe. what do you all think?
The Sami are the last people of Europe to have a shamanic tradition. The Greek one is lost, the celtic one wiped out. May the heavens bless them.
The Celtic one is making a come back.. People are sick of the forced diversity agenda that is destroying our unique diverse differences.
Awesome culture, reindeer people. 😊
Beautiful Embroidery.
The last ethnic group? What are the wallons, the sardinians, sicilians, Portuguese, vasques, Catalonias, English, Irish, Scott's, Welsh, German, austrian,Fleming, polish, etc?
The LEAST KNOWN, not the last ethnic group. If you are to list ethnic groups, you don't have to go further away from the Samis to list Norwegians, Swedes and Finns btw.
You are spreading misinformation and unscientific bs. The Sami aren’t indigenous in Scandinavia. There were South Scandinavians living in these areas for thousands of years before Sami lived there. No Sami artifacts in northern Scandinavia until mid Bronze Age. The oldest South Scandinavian artifacts are from Mesolithic Stone Age.
First of all, indigenous is not a synonym for being first. It is a political and protective status, given to certain groups that have a long historical connection to a given region, that have faced colonization and assimilation politics, and that are a minority.
@ Well the Sami is still not indigenous as the areas they migrated to in Scandinavia, from the area around Ural, already was inhabited by “south Scandinavians” or Proto Germanic people. A lie doesn’t become true only because you repeat it. In the southern half of Sweden there have been a Sami population.
@@hemligx-sson8202 There are no archaeological evidence of any Germanic people inhabiting the northern parts of Norway and Sweden before the Sami. Yes, not of all of Sapmi was inhabited by the Sami first, like Trøndelag is an example of. There, Nordic Bronze Age people - the ones who developed into Germanics - inhabited the lands before the Sami. But it is still considered part of Sapmi. Why you may wonder? Because the Sami were present in the region before the creation of the modern Norwegian state. North of Trøndelag, however, the oldest human traces belongs to those who developed into the Samis.
@ I wrote proto Germanic and there are lots of artifacts in northern Sweden much earlier than Sami. The Sami didn’t arrive in Sweden until late Bronze age, so they are the foreign invaders. Btw, the oldest skull found in northern Norway wasn’t Sami.
@@hemligx-sson8202 Proto Germanic are the people who developed into the Germanics, and eventually into modern day Scandinavians. Using the term Germanic, refers to Scandinavians, throughout history. There are no archaeological evidence of Germanic people inhabiting Northern Sweden before the Sami. And I challange you to refer me to any archaeological paper stating otherwise.
Maybe subtitles? Then it doesn’t interfere with the immersion so much ❤
Саамы должны говорить на своем языке
they MUST preserve it, although sooner or later Sami speech will die.
Same with Karelians
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@@tonya5818 Они все Гибриды %))) Русских и Вьетнамцев. Через 10.000 лет это замечательная идея бороться с реальностью
They do
I didn't know about Saami until I started listening to Korpiklaani. In a way I envy these people; I was born in my country, I grew up in my country but....I don't have the same spiritual connection with my country as the Saami do with theirs. I wish I could have that. *sigh*
Spend time in nature,get to know and understand your ancient ancestors. It will come to you. Korpiklaani songs are good teachers too.
@@bunnybrown809 *sigh* I've done that but it doesn't work, it's a very different environment down here and I never felt like I belonged. Hence the envy for the same spiritual connection Sami has. Yeah, I have no Finnish or Sami ancestry but the songs of Korpiklaani resonates with me.
Thank you, thank you, for sharing this. From San Diego, California, USA.
I just clicked this video to make sure there's no one actually pink-haired in it.
My mom was Sami, My Dad Norse. Little known fact, there was quite a lot of Samis that immigrated to the US so there must be a whole lot of Sami DNA in America too today. I too live in the US, my son here is a Mix of at least 5 Main DNA strains. Norse, Sami, Japanese, Cherokee, and English settlers that was onboard Mayflower.
In the end the narrator say's that the Sami have lived in the land for "hundreds of years". Actually it's more like 50.000 years, if I'm not mistaken. (EDIT: Sorry I was wrong, I was mixing it up with Australian aboriginals)
I'm half Northern Norwegian myself, and have some Sami traits after my grandmother. She looked like a native American, with high cheekbones.
Er not 50,000. There was an ice sheet over that part of northern Eurasia up until about 12,000 years ago.
Uh, no, maybe 4000. Less than the Scandinavians.
@@hummingbirdofgumption3263 How could we know exactly?
You are mistaken. Im sami and our siberian ancestors migrated here from north asia about 4000 years ago and mixed with locals and our culture replaced the older ones. There was no sami before 4000 years ago truthfully as we were born from that mix of ancient samoyed type culture and local euros.
@@nickbamber268 Oldest sami burial genetic and archeological findings are about 4000 years old. Theres no findings older than that and the older findings are some other earlier peoples culture that sami culture replaced coming from east. Its also said in sami stories that our ancestors came from behind eastern star where sun rises from and that northern europe was populated by other people our other side of ancestry our asian ancestors mixed with
I'm part Inari Sàmi, and part Tuvan but born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland
What do you mean 'last ethnic group'? Have you ever heard of a swede, or a german, or an italian?
Who said “last”? It says “least” 🤦🏻♀️
@@szilviabeylik4783You are so black that even a photon moving at the speed of light can't escape from your black skin.
@@szilviabeylik4783 I have noticed there are many who cannot read posting on this video.
Last year i was backpacking in Sweden taking the longest night train ever. At one of the first stops to the north i get to share a cigarette with a woman who was Sami and we talked for half an hour about how amazing (and hard) was her life walking like 300km every year living around the reindeers of her family.
Very interesting - I love the way they live and have strong family ties and much respect for nature. My mother was from North Finland and I have a small Sami doll she got us from Finland. So maybe because we are related to Sami people!? 😍 Greetings to all Sami of the Nordic countries 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
The people under the lake are the same people under the sea and in the mountains we can't go. We know of them only from our friend. Great friend, who came to meet us. He skirted the rules because he is behavioral scientist. We asked him so many questions for a decade. He is the only real outside perspective because he is from another world. What we have learned is beyond incredible about ourselves, our past, present, and future. We are held at length until we earn the recognition. As a world we are tested. The results are still unknown but before covid we were about 30% of the planet was willing to accept advancing to level technology. Nothing can stop what is coming.
LOL ... most Sami live in the city of Oslo, not northern Norway, and are indistinguishable from us :) Their language is totally different thou, and their music, JOIK!
"Indistinguishable" from you only because most of sami living in oslo are very very mixed with our white neighbours. Old time sami like my grand father look nothing like white norwegians. Dark and more like mixed inuit native american/mixed east asian. But many young sami still look very north asian though in families that did not get in to that marrying whites because embarrassed to be sami bs in eugenic era.. I do kind of look siberian shaped but im blond coloured from finnish side of ancestry.
Im sami reindeer men and finnish potato farmer mix haha.
These Sami people have nothing in common with us and aren't apart of our people. They belong in Asia Where they came from. They migrated here and replaced the people living here. They are NOT European at all.
@Viso333 EXACTLY these people have nothing in common with us. Asia is where they belong because that is where they came from/migrated from.
@@IchigoOren that is very racist fascist opinion from you smh... Yes my ancestors migrated from north asia but theres no rules where one race belongs. We have lived here for about 4000 years in some areas. Everyone comes from somewhere else also you nordick germadicks. Both us siberians and you germanic white folk are here invaders. The original north european were paleo european hunter gatherer.
We siperian came from east and you germanic came from south and the original people got pressed between us until they joined us both. With your logic you dont also belong.
@@Viso333 No, Samis of the old did not look Native American or like Inuits. They pretty much look how they look today. Samis are a mix, a product of several migrations into Scandinavia. Some of these are even shared with Scandinavians. Besides, Scandinavians and Samis have co existed in Scandinavia and interracted with eachother for thousands of years.
This is so sad. I watched another documentary about Sami people who were reindeer herders in I think Finland, but maybe Sweden or Norway. I don't know if it is representative, but their culture seems to be doing much better in that area. It's sad that that isn't true of the Sami in Russia
Ah, the people with pink hair, of course.
Sami here from Romania
dracul?
❤😂
@ what
0:30 "4000 years ago, the glacier retreated and the Karelian Isthmus appeared."
Is this video a bad joke?
I'm an American from Utah. I've had my DNA analyzed and discovered that I have Sami ancestry. I'm proud of that!
You should be
Beautiful coastline. The people seem just like any other rural people.
I never heard of Sami until I was 27 years old, when someone asked me I was Sami. Interestingly, I had been asked if I am Eskimo when visiting relatives in Canada. I find it amusing all the different ethnicities people guess I am.
I would have said the Finnish people are closer to Sami on a whole than the are to Scandinavia or Slav.
Finns are former Chinese-Vietnamese. Which came to the Russian area (Aryan R1a + R1b) and lost their Mongoloid identity.
The Scandinavians descended from the Russians and from Yugolslavian (Haplogroup I)
In the Far East live black Mongoloid reindeer herders.
Finns are mestizos. Just like the Baltic states.
(Between Aryan Russians and polar reindeer herders) :)
Both Finns and Samo have genes of Mongoloids (N ), Russians (R1a) and Swedes (ex Yugoslavian (I ).)
of west uralic origin.
@@ХозяинПолянкиwe are all mestizos.
@@mito88 There are scientific answers, there are religious - political, etc. BELIEVERS, fanatics, etc. they are often not ready with real answers.
"Mr. Hitler. You are a Jew, or rather an Ethiopian. You have haplogroup E. You are an African. And you are fighting against direct Russian Aryans."
It is clear that all are mestizos of the local region and the global region :)
@@mito88 The Urals is a Russian region. What is now, what is ancient. (the region disappeared in the middle period, maybe due to a catastrophe. I don't know)
Sex took place at the meeting place between ancient Russians and Asian Mongoloids.
While they were walking to Finland, the Baltics or Hungary.... They dissolved, dissolved, dissolved.
The Sami have Russian genes (R1a); Russian Volga Genes (R1b = genes of Western Europeans, they came from the Volga); Arab-Jewish-Caucasian genes (J); Yugoslav-Shvedov (I) and Asian N.
There was a glacier on Europa 10,000 years - 5,000 years ago. Russians lived in southern Russia, and Africans lived in Africa. While it was melting, while there was dampness, while the trees grew (at first small, then large).
Deer hunters ran across the tundra. (Now the tundra has disappeared and moved completely north)
I used to have contacts with some Sámi people when I lived in Helsinki, they sometimes come there to sell their peculiar stuff. A very interesting people indeed.
Can someone please explain to me the narrators’ backgrounds? I thought they were Americans at first because of their accents, then I thought they were AI because of the intonation and vocabulary, then I thought they were Slavic or Finno-Ugric or something, and now I’m just confused 😂
I think it's AI. The guy has the AI voice that you here in several places
Much respect to them. I love the village life, and we have a lot of that in Iran, the simple country folk are everywhere.
Funny that the "sami nation" is celebrated while it's racism to talk about native swedes...
True.
yes, and they are saying that the sami are the last indigenous people of europe like the rest of us don't even exist. what makes these people think that they can say these sort of things.
@@paulk84 that is true, i dont know why all people say it but politicians say that so the people (non sami) in for example Sweden gonna submit and give away land for example and feel sorry for them and from what it seems like they should also have speciell rights, more or less politicians want to make sami people abow those that built the country and came before them. Playing minorities against majority people.
Even more funny is mainstream Norwegians are actually the original inhabitants. The Sami are more recent.
@@zane62135 mainstream norwiegians? Haha, Yes norwiegians where first there and sami came later on.
Instead of brutally destroying the original soundtrack, it shall be better to just put subtitles, like civilized people do. As it is now, it is completely unwatchable.
I agree about the subtitles, the production doesn't do the culture justice. I wanted to hear the Sami language. They talk about how very few speak the language and it's dubbed over in English so that you can't hear it. SMH, what a shame. They should make another version with subtitles.
That look European with a touch of the oriental.
Bc they came from Siberia and mixed with Norse ppl
@@royarievilo1580it's more complicated than that. Europeans and Asians met and mixed already in Western Siberia and Urals, let alone Scandinavia.
@@Kolemjen We sami are from full blooded samoyed type east asian genetic people though that mixed with europeans 4000 years ago. Nganasan and nenets our relatives are full asian. The people that migrated 4000 years ago from siberia to europes side were pretty much full asian
We are literally half from same people as Nganasan and Nenets came from. Our relatives who are full asian.
Tribes that split to migrate to europes side mixed with european locals and that mix created us sami people 4000 years ago
Because generically they are
My people lived in teepees, lived off the land, saw the divine in all things. So, I'm watching and listening to this, and I see something familiar and I hear a terribly familiar story of what was, and what is dying.
Beautiful people!
Traditions are crucial because they represent a culture. However, there is nothing wrong with progress. Progress in the direction of improving basic living-standards, such as health care and knowledge. When we observe the modern cultures of our world, they all have a primitive past. Changing for the good is something we shouldn't avoid.
Diversity is a dangerous idea that needs to be pushed out. It is hurting the Sami. The West have done so much harm on earth
Dude that is a teepee. No one gonna address that? That's a pretty solid cultural link to North America. Are these peoples related?
I learned of the Sami from a movie called Claus.
have not seen it but not very accurate depiction of us sami i have heard. They made us seem like santa claus elfs or something haha
I’d love to see their reactions to watching a real American cowboy who’s mastered the lasso. I’m sure if they were taught the American lasso way they would greatly benefit from it & it would definitely make the lasso competition more fun & entertaining & would attract everyone from all around the country to learn or even just to see the new techniques.
They may not have money but, they are rich beyond what most will ever achieve.
The ladys face has some classic features of some tribes here. High cheekbones. The ancient migrations via the artic possible examples. The husband not so much. The tepees got me thinking. And the tone of chanting. Now the kandbridge theory is shown to be the only way people came to N America. Mixing of multiple gene pools and cultural ways. Facinating. Im part indian and studied many years of american( N and S) history. Blue eyed light haired mandans etc. It all makes sence. We are human 1st.
All northern people must have met at some point Sami, Inuit, siberian, etc. It's annoying that they say Europe and the Americas never met until the conquest only Asia and the Americas? Why are there runes in Nova Scotia? Why do the Sami wear seal skin and live in tepees? We are all related and beautifully human.
Google Nganasan and Nenets they are close related to us Sami but their not mixed like us. Sami were born 4000 years ago from siberian ancient samoyed type culture migrating to europe from siberia and mixing with locals.
Old time sami look very inuit/east asian/native american mixed people.
We are now all and most very very mixed with our white neighbours so the people in video dont look exactly much sami.
The culture of this siberian ancestral tribe was somewhat mix of east asian and inuit. Watch movie called White moss about Nenets and you see what i mean. Its in youtube i think still. And watch Nganasan videos.
@@mariejacob6178The Vikings brought over the Rune stones. Look it up.
How I wish this wasn't so awfully dubbed... subtitles would have been a million times better.
💯 they should release another version with subtitles.
I know some Mari.. are Sami and Mari related ?
Yes they are related.
Yes but culturally not at all basically. Sami culture is very much siberian samoyed type mixed in to northern paleo european with some influence from white neighbours living south of sami.
Mari peoples culture is basically old time pagan iranian culture. Nothing common with sami.
Honestly i have theory its even possible that mari and udmurt are the most eastern samis that got assimilated in to iranian white peoples farmer culture in medieval era which is maybe why they have stories that their ancestors are mix of people that were pulled by reindeer from north and other side ancestry pulled by bulls/horses from south. Mari culture is not related to sami and mari are very much european iranian old time pagan culture when you look in to it and even their name Mari is literally from old iranian language meaning mortal but their genetics is lot like sami. So yeah basically they are lost sami that got taken over by white iranian farmer folk culture kind of when you think about it🤔Im not joking by the way. Mari culture is literally iranian pagan culture identically and the name mari came from those peoples language
Thats how the white finnougrians were basically born. From early proto proto siberian asian euro mixed sami that got absorded in to white farmer folks cultures of volgan iranians and balto slavs of estonia. Sami are the proto proto sami that lived in northern areas in siberian way and did not get run over by the southerners farmer cultures. Nobody just does not say it straight like i say haha
@@Viso333 Cultural similarities between Sami and Mari are there. These people aren't as different as you think. Only because Mari are farmers doesn't make them completely unrelated to Sami. Iranian influences are (at least) in Sami languages too, just read linguistic works. I think you are somewhat confused about various Uralic ethnic groups. Maris have clear cultural similarities to Ob-Ugrians (Khanty and Mansi). On other hand, Ob-Ugrians are also really culturally similar to Saami. They also have Iranian influences. These all people are connected each to other. Mostly "insiders" can really see that, the people, who belong to these cultures (I am one of them - I belong to one of these ethnic groups). I absolutely can see similarities and commonalities in all three - Sami, Mari and Ob-Ugrians. From clothing to religions. I can give you exact examples, if you want. As for the Samoyeds, they are a different folk. I know many people confuse Nenets with Northern Khanty or something, but really, they have large differences in cultures. It is the Khanty culture that Sami have more similarities to, not Nenets. But of course, one can see commonalities between Sami and Nenets cultures.
@@Kolemjen im not confused at all. i think you dont understand what iam saying fully. Both sami and khanty came from ancient samoyed type culture migrating to ural volga region from siberia and mixing with european people met there. Nenets and nganasan are the ones that did not mix and did not get as much influence as they lived deeper in siberia. Both sami and khanty are similar to samoyedic people but mixed. Mari have really nothing from the ancient samoyed type ancestry left culturally. There was baltoslavics in Estonia and iranic people in south of volga and ural. Majority of finnougrians are really culturally almost fully iranian pagan or baltoslavs. Identical literally from culture, living, clothing, etc.
Expect sami, khanty and mansi people who lived in more remote northern areas and did not get fully assimilated to those southern neighbours so the siberian did not disappear from us.
Mari culture and all FU living volga area are mostly iranian pagan by culture with only little paleo european and siberian inlfluence.
Sami culture is mostly siberian and paleo european mix with influence from southern neighboring people germanic, balts, iranic.
Yes there is some similarities with Sami and Mari but its very oppositio cultures and actually big difference.
I know its now in modern time harder to see difference, because we sami are now in modern time very mixed with finns, russians, norwegians, swedes.
Nenets and nganasan are full siberian.
Sami, khanty and mansi people are mixed siberian euro "half blood".
Rest of the finnougric are quarter or less and culturally basically fully balt/volgan iranian that just kept talkin the siberian language because it was the male lineages language in patriark society leed by men. Half siberian male lineage but mostly white female lineage. But yeah culturally theres really nothing from the original uralic speaking ancestors in finns, karelians, Mari, Komi, udmurt etc.
Uralic speakers were full asian from siberia.
The iranians living in south of volga got swiped off later by huns, mongols and slavic colonisation.
Im finn and sami mix and have to say modern Sami culture and appearance is very very europeanised.
Old time sami looked very north asian and there was no these blond white sami 100 years ago many.
We are very mixed now and only some families look ethnic sami.
@@Viso333 I see now where your opinions come from, your angle. But I must disagree with you! Because I can see that you aren't correct (no offence intended). I am a member of one of Ob-Ugric peoples, I have met Mari people plenty times and I have pretty good idea about them. I myself (my facial features) look like a member of my ethnic group. Yet I look not much different from Maris. I also sometimes wear my own traditional clothing. Mari people have been coming to me and touched my jewellery, and said "it looks just like our Monisto!" If I was wearing one of those Khanty or Mansi shirts with wool embroidery, I'd be the star, the center of attention for Maris! As it is something in Mari culture as well and even considered sacred. Mari people have been coming to me to speak, invited me to their events etc. I am even in their own chat group by their own invintation! Mari people have attended also Ob-Ugric religion prayer ritual, where I also attended, and they said then that so many things are similar. We can basically go to worship together! So you are really wrong about Mari people. They have a lot of similarities to us, Ob-Ugrians. And I can also see similarities between Maris and Sámi. There are so many stereotypes about our erhnic groups, which form a lot of misleading information. As for Samoyedic culture - it is different in so many ways from Ob-Ugric one, even conflicting. I don't see how they would be our "forefathers?" Sure, we did mix with them (one of my ancestors down the line was in fact Nenets), but this ancestor was forced to adapt to our culture. There are some fundamental differences between Ob-Ugrian and Samoyedic cultures that outsiders aren't aware about.
I love visiting Finland, then I like to think I get the general vibe about the land and it's Folk, helps to be curious and respectful, in what depth and amount, well?
Renee Zellweger is Sámi.
Wow really?
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Yes. Remember when she did her makeup differently and everyone though she had cosmetic surgery? They were speculating she was trying to look less Sámi at the time. That's the only reason I know who the Sámi people are.
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Her mother is Norwegian and father is Swiss. She has just a little bit of Sami in her.
Wow,I'm from Sweden, I can actually belive that, her Face is rather Sami,they have high Cheek bones and slanted eyes.Beautiful people.
Oh, i wondered who those people with pink hair were. Many Sami are rock musicians. Now we KNOW!
Interesting choice for a thumbnail.... Pink hair and nose ring... A typical representation of the Sami .... After going to university in America.
😂😂😂
i first heard about the sami in the movie klaus, it’s cool that they’re real!
Don't call us Laps, it's an insult.
I wish we could hear the language, subtitles are much better!
Poor Sami who live in the russian ditactorship, almost extinct. At least to ones who live in Finland, Sweden and Norway have incentives to preserve theyr culture and language, in Russia the colonization is and was much more harsh
Where are all the native Americans in America ?? Why they live in the reservations ?
@@livefastdieyoung8703 I have Native American blood and am a member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma. We are a sovereign nation and are happy to preserve our values of Faith, Family, and Culture no matter where we end up living.
Your propaganda comment reflects ignorant hatred for Russians. Compared to American and British where in just a few centuries there has been zero chance of native people surviving well in their homelands and maintaining their languages and cultures, ethnic Russians are historically tolerant and respectful. The Anglo-American attitude has been to wipeout groups believed to be inferior by forcing assimilation,conquering their lands force them to surrendering wealth and independence. Americans/British basically committed many acts of genocide towards Native Americans upon reaching their lands and meanwhile ethnic Russians have shown respect for others during most of that same time period. Today, Russia is a diverse multiethnic society with 120 ethnic groups, many with their own national territories, speaking 100 languages. The most likely explanation for decline minority population in Russia is young people by choice moving away to find better jobs with better pay instead of the America’s version of tragic history which is forcing people into reservations away from their prime homelands with trails of tears and death.
@@livefastdieyoung8703 He was talking about russia.
They don't all live on reservations, but the ones who choose to live on reservations can continue to live near complete autonomy from the U.S. government. They have their own laws and judicial system, their own traditions, and are exempt from paying U.S. taxes. The Native Americans are far from gone, in fact, there are millions of them that continue to co-exist in the U.S.
Glad i read the comments before watching a second of the video.
Is the pink hair and nose ring part of their ancient culture?
it's to trigger people 🤣
Sometimes, it's so amazing how different people are in different places in the world. Do they know or care what they are missing out on? Probably not. Do they know how much the world 🌎 and people have evolved? Probably not. They aren't evolving by choice. Those who stay stuck in a repeat will miss everything new. After all, Mother Earth is often changing. Those two like being the way they are, and it's all good, but they could be having a life that is even better. They are a cute couple. 😊
18:28 😅
Thanks for posting this. Sami pride.
Our pleasure!
How exactly Sami are Indigenous to Scandinavia? They are literally Asians. Fins, Estons, Magyars and Samis are all originating from Asia. Infact they are all relatives.
They arrived Scandia much earlier than Northern Germanic tribes.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 No they did not, the indo europeans was in scandinavia 2000 years before the sami.
Indo-European language came to Scandinavia about 5,000 years ago.
The first Sámi group came to the area at least 3500-3600 years ago. Finns have lived in Scandinavia 2,800 years ago. It must be added that there were several separate groups for both Finns and Sámi. Sámi and the Finns are also two completely different groups.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 Certainly not.
DNA studies show that Fins actually aren't related to the Sami people.
I have to vested interest in it myself, being Swede/Norwegian.
It is actually contested, as both groups arrived in Scandinavia from Asia before written history, but from different directions.
Both groups are native, as opposed to romani and judaics.
😮are they using plastic buckets to carry water ? In America that means a Walmart is close by...
Of course Sami people have usually purple, pink or blue Hair, Piercings and Tattoos all over their body, mostly written lines like "YOLO" or "believe in yourself". They are usually gender-fluid and their people are known for fighting patriarchy.
Video fails to adress all that sadly since it seems to be part of the patriarchy.
Absolutely, but I did not see it on my grandfathers nabours when I were small, eighter pink hair or piercing…. Someone maybe learnt about it as minor residents in the capital, where the majority moved to hide their etnicity. Oslo is the major ethnic center today….
@@union8200Ruby?
The video was made by a Russian so it only focuses on the Russian Sami. They have less freedom of choice there
@@union8200 lol
anyway…
I have a silly question, are they Asiatic like native americans, or of european extraction? Or Eurasian?
4000 years ago ancient samoyed type culture from siberia north asia migrated to europes side and mixed with locals. This mix created early sami type culture.
That is our origin story shortly. But most sami you see nowadays do not look like old time sami because we are all now mixed with our white neighbours very much.
Google Nganasan and Nenets people. Our close relatives that staid in asia side and did not mix with europeans.
Nganasan are full 100% asian.
@@Viso333 Yes that makes sense now. Siberian much like the people that crossed our Bering strait. I so admire the culture, I love the bright clothing. I love they don't pollute and kind of just want to be let be. Close to the earth. Quiet dignity. We could learn a thing or two.
They had Darker skin and more Asian Features but Mixing with Finns N1a1 Swedes I1a , germanics R1b , Slavs and Rus R1a over 1000s years has change that. Much like Native Americans of over 200 years ago.
Every European nation are indigenous. The Norse have been in Scandinavia longer as wellm
but because politics we can say that
@@brunobastos5533what?
The point behind indigenous is that they are the first people there and weren’t replaced by indo Germanic people, culture etc..
@@poppi510 and in other places. Iam portuguese we been living here since homo sapiens arrive
21:53 that's russian to the core. ❤
Video cover photo of pink haired, nose ringed Sami woman is misrepresentation of the Sami culture, I'd say.
triggered
The only reason I know the Sami exist is because I played Crusader Kings 2 XD
So, why use a photo if a multi-shaded pink haired multiple pierced woman to intro this article?
who cares? hair dye has existed for decades
@@coolchameleon21 Not in this culture which, is the point. Keep up.
@@rickiegable3719 Most sami do not even look like sami anyway nowadays so why bothered about single one with pink hair. Honestly. We are overly mixed with our white neighbours since 1850s if not earlier,,, now to point we are going extinct really probably. We are originally mix of north asian and white and we really did not look this white and blond until very recently. Have you seen Nganasan? Close full asian relatives of us sami that staid deep in asia side when the tribes split 4000 years ago.
culture changes
They have a similar nomadic lifestyle like the mongols
All People of the that of a origin on The Steppe of Asia even if 4000 years ago Have that Tradition. Not Just mongols. The mongols are just 1 group
TIL you can recognise the Sami by their purple/pink hair and their septum piercing!
Thought the same, what a terrible thumbnail to use... Hardly representative of the Sami people alright.
A Glorious People, The Truest Kin Of Sacred Mother Europe 👍
"Truest kin". Europe belongs equally to all Europeans, not just the Sami.
Our culture is from siberia north asia
I discovered the existence of the Sami people thanx to the Midnattsol (midnight sun) tv show. Amazing people, sad story
Sami with pink hair and ring in nose like cow?
Never
Great People many Blessings Forever
It's unlikely that you will find a Sami with pink hair and a staple in her nose.
oh no pink hair! cope
@@coolchameleon21Oh no. Some weirdo with cattle ring and pink hair identifying as Sami.
smh this is modern day.. and ear piercings have been pretty common with sami already in old times 1800s in some areas so why not also nose now
Seems Sami also enjoy European culture and technology. 😂😂 Why is that?
not that rare at all nowadays 🤣
Wow. Didnt know the sami had purple hair and nose rings. They were ahead of their time. So sad they disappeared from history for the most part
i remember reading an article some time ago, about how some Sámi believe they are more Sámi than others (i think it was those living closer to the coast that were considered "less"). fucking idiotic division and prejudice inside their own community...
You may be a Sneech, but are you a Star Bellied Sneech?
Especially when the culture as a whole is dying.
Your typical Sami woman?
In the video yes. On the thumbnail no.
@@user-cz1gu8nl9o the woman in video is very clearly mixed sami/white russian slavic woman. We are not this white originally haha
Interesting and happy people.
why are all their clothes cleaner than storebought?
kitchenware and else is also like brandnew. they look more like tourists. even the reindeer act like they from game of thrones.
why would they be dirty? kitchenware doesnt age if you take care of it properly.
but sure they and the reindeers are all actors, definetly.......xD :'D LOL
That’s me in the thumbnail picture. Can you please remove it?
The ancient pink hair and nose rings.......