Sweden’s indigenous Sami people threatened by climate change
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- The indigenous Sami people have lived across Norway, Finland, Russia and Sweden in the Arctic region for thousands of years.
Their traditions and way of life are intimately connected to the Arctic north.
But a warming planet is putting that under threat and is creating grievances with governments over how to fix it.
Al Jazeera's Paul Rhys reports from Lappland in Sweden.
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Sami people living in Sweden Finland and Russia should get united and fight for their rights.
Lol? What rights would those be, that they not already have?
@@themangospy8288 Ask the Sami people , they will tell you. To start with an unconditional apology for all the wrongs done to them.
They aren’t indigenous. Hunter gatherers, farmers and indo-Europeans were there before. Sami are colonizers
@@viktorcalais3722 they're not even indigenous lol. Just because they're brown doesn't mean they're natives, Indo-European whites were there since 10,000 BC, Samis came much later
@@Bolognabeef Interesting. Coming late does not mean they should not get organized and united and fight for their rights.
As a Swede, I'm appalled by the actions of my government. It doesn't matter what political party is ruling. It still remains the same.
We must address climate change as a global problem that will affect minorities, native people, and other marginalised groups the most.
I hope in the future, we can return the land we have illegally stolen from the Samí and make Sapmí and autonomous region with its own government and constitution.
Love from your Swedish friends 🇸🇪❤
That may very well be true.. BUT the Sami people AREN'T the indigenous natives of Scandinavia. The definition of the word indigenous refers to a group of people that are native to a certain land BEFORE a colonial power came in and settled the land. That land had already been native to Scandinavia long before Sami people showed up very recently relatively speaking.
If you don't believe that then think about it. The Germanic people were the Natives of of northern Europe directly below Scandinavia while these Sami people are clearly a Asian ethnic group from all the way from Asia.
Now, your telling me that a ethnic group that inhabit the other side of the continent are MORE likely to be the Natives of a land within Europe then a ethnic group who have been inhabiting that land DIRECTLY BELOW Scandinavia for thousands of years?
Sad video, hope the government steps up to address climate change and grant protections.
well you see, the thing is that the two biggest contributers to climate change is China and the US so to put it quit bluntly, it doesn't really matter what we do here in Sweden it will still not be enough to stop or even slow down climate change.
Contact Greta thunburg
Swedish government is part of the problem with climate change. Stop the gemtrails and it will be back as it was 50 years ago.
Vem påverkas inte av klimatförändringarna? Svenska kyrkan har officiellt bett om ursäkt till samerna.
Det som har gjort Sverige till ett rikt land, skog, gruvor, vatten är några av de viktigaste. Hur och varför ska 4500 renägare ta kontroll över 1/3 av Sveriges mark? Lapparna är en av våra "urinvånare" men inte den äldsta gruppen, i alla fall inte i mellersta Sverige och söderut. Märkligt hur en grupp skulle köra över alla andra infödda i Sverige.
Sami are as indigenous to Europe as the Romani are indigenous to Europe meaning they only arrived a couple of thousand of years ago, both coming from Asia not Europe. I don't have a issue with them but they are not indigenous Europeans, maybe the first to live in the artic circle but not to Europe or Scandinavia. Calling them indigenous and not the Nords is dumb maybe, a threatened Culture is a better word.
The Sami being called Indigenous is a political designation by some organizations that refers to their minority culture rather than natives. It's one of those poorly crafted attributions that has resulted in grave misconception. Yes they are natives of the Northern parts, and the Scandinavians are indigenous to the rest of the peninsula.
@@themangospy8288 yes, it definitely is a misconception and needs to be worded better to not offend the actual Indigenous people of Europe! Maybe, just say "Indigenous to the Scandinavian artic circle".
What makes a people indigenous? Fun fact: Indigenous peoples does not mean (as i first thought) that one people lived there before others came. Take Sweden as an example Sweden were settled by Germanic peoples ancestors around 15 000 years ago and the Sami peoples came around 2500 years ago but the Sami peoples are still the indigenous peoples of Sweden. How? That depends on whom you ask because indigenous peoples means different things to different countries and different organisations.
According to a scientific, archaeological definition, a indigenous people is a population group that are descendants of the first human inhabitants of a particular geographical area. Than Sami peoples that came much later is not an indigenous peoples.
The ILO, defined the term in the Convention on Indigenous Peoples and Tribal People (ILO 169) in 1989 to apply to *peoples living in one area, when other peoples founded a state in the same area.* Than everyone in India and Egypt before being included in the British Empire be indigenous peoples. Or even a British man could claim to be an indigenous person because of when Roman Empire settled in England.
No, and Englishman would have been able to claim his status as indigenous, given this definition, during that time! Which is intuitive. But, Rome is no more. The Swedish State still exists though. The Sami people lived in Lappland for 2000 years before the Swedish state claimed they were part of it and enforced its laws upon them. Of course they are indigenous, even if there were other Germanic people who inhabited parts of what we today refer to as Sweden before them.
Reckless Toddler Sami people are the native people of northern Scandinavia, and Germanic-Scandinavian people are native people of southern Scandinavia. The first humans to settle an area are the native people of that area
@@albinjohnsson2511
Finno-Ugric/Sami history in Scandinavia can be traced to 7000-8000 years ago according to DNA evidences.
@@butwhatsoutthere
Wrong.
Finno-Ugric/Sami history in Scandinavia can be traced to 7000-8000 years. Indo-European tribes in Europe can be traced to 4500 years ago. Germanic tribes in Scandinavia can only be traced to 2500 years ago.
Alexandre Wozikowski ok I don’t disagree with you. So where am I wrong?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since modern Swedes lived in Sweden before the Sami arrived, wouldn't that make them the indigenous people?
yes, swedes lived in sweden 15000 years ago meanwhile the sami people came 2500
Yes
Europes tribalism
Sounds like asia
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If you are Sami then your ancestors came to Scandinavia -2,500 to 1,500 years ago while Scandinavians arrived from Germany 15,000 years.. how you and the people in this video have managed to think that the Sami were indegenous to those lands before the Scandinavians is completely beyond me.
@@EstbXCIII typical racist propaganda. There is a reason why the nazis lost the war Hitler is dead and the world is happy his dead. I suppose next your going to explain why you are the master race? No such thing child go back to sleep and stop stalking people predator.
@@mohammedbinothman6884 @Mohammed Bin Othman plus the fact that you can take my original statement and try to equate that to such a extreme sentiment reveals little you should be taken serious as an hysterical, racist who has zero emotional self control. If what I'm saying really is wrong then prove it.
Lastly, yeah Powerful European countries DID colonize many other peoples land. While I think that is wrong at the same I say.. Get the F over it..this world wasn't peaches and cream. People were abhorrent regardless of race and the harsh reality is that if it weren't the Europeans who did it than it was going to be someone else who did it. Europeans only managed to do it because they were lucky enough to be native to a land that had endless amounts of valueble resources unlike the middle east or Africa. If you had ever read a book than you'd know their were MANY non-Europeans who COLONIZED, subjugated, enslaved and genocide massive amounts of lands and even just as much.The Persian Empire who COLONIZED India to North Africa and almost into Europe. The Egyptians who colonized the Middle East and north Africa, The Moors who colonized the Middle East, North Africa and then European Spain where they remained for hundreds of years. The Mongolian Empire who colonized lands starting from their home of Asia and across Asia.. through the Middle East, into North Africa and almost into Europe.. that Ottoman Empire who colonized the Balkan countries in Europe.. 1945 Imperials Japanese who shortly colonized the Asian countries of the Pacific Rim because they called themselves a superior race to other Asians therefore their lands belonged to Japan..
The list goes on and on, and on, and on. That's called history.
@@EstbXCIII stop stalking me.
@@EstbXCIII you're a delusional paranoid racist.
They have NWHG DNA high that mean they were the first wave to enter Europe 45,000 years ago, British share the same DNA 10% of the population.
Lmao
That's not how it works... The first to enter Europe was in Greece over 150 000 years ago.
Not true. Scandinavians arrived there 15,000 yes ago while the Sami settled the 2,000 to 1,000 yrs ago
I've never heard of these people before, interesting..🤔
They are one of the two indigenous people of Scandinavia one are the norse sweden's and finnish!!
@@ragnarlthbrksigurdssn2617 The English my lot came from Denmark the Angles lived near the border of Germany and Denmark they were palls with the Dutes. West Germanic.
@@joannechisholm4501 yes but Also norwegian finn and swedish are indigenous
@@ragnarlthbrksigurdssn2617 All Europeans are to make a European u need 3 components There was 3 migrations first was the Western Hunter Gather the body they found in UK. Chedder man. Migration 2 Anatolian Farmers built stone Hendge UK. 3rd Imagration was the Yamani People Russian Steppe. Indo European have all 3 u are fully European.
@@ragnarlthbrksigurdssn2617 How u think we have diffent Eye colors. and Hair all 3 people.
exploited by Swedish states
support separate Nation for samis
They’re lucky they’re allowed to live there at all. They’re not indigenous.
@þrúðr J 1. That's not what indigenous means.
2. They weren't one of the original peoples - neanderthals were first, then Maglemosian WHGs, then Neolithic Farmers, then Indo-European Corded-Ware/Battle-Axe people. Then, only much later did the Sami arrive.
I'm so tired of corrupt globalist people telling lies.
Scandinavia belongs to the Scandinavian people not to the sami.
@@tiddybearkush
Just did the independent plebiscite, truth will come to World
No justification required from Non samis.
they are sufferers and they need freedom
@@tiddybearkush they belong to both.
Logging in Sweden has to stop!!! Norther Sweden needs to become Nationaly protected. Like in America, Yellow Stone. And many other places that can not be touched. or like indian reservations.
Yes.. they always use climate change as the reason.. to take blame away from themselves.. it’s the logging of the old forests where the reindeer natural food hangs on trees ... climate always changes,, they can’t stop that.. the climate will do what the climate will do,, and beards of reindeer will adapt.. because that’s a slow process, but the cutting of the trees , the logging is what is the biggest threat
@@drainmonkeys385 Except logging contributes more to anthropogenic climate change as trees are major sources of carbon sink. When they're logged or cleared, they release a lot more carbon which worsens climate change. So no, it's not incorrect to point out how climate change is getting worse due to industrial activities. Which are more reasons why large scale logging must stop.
The Swedish are also natives to Sweden
@@skeletonjanitor Yes we are, while the Sami are native to Lapland.
@@lastrationalist7890 Wood is actually the most ecological construction material. Do you want societies to use more steel, concrete and plastic??? What we need is to collect wood in a sustainable way, not to end wood production entirely. Actually, when you build something with wood, the CO2 that was captured by the trees remain in the object/building you made and more CO2 is absorbed by the new trees that will replace it. Producing steel, concrete and plastic emits tons of additional CO2 and other gases when compared to wood
They mostly live in Finland and parts Russia too.
Also in norway
Thats actually wrong. Most of the samis live in Norway, where there is estimated to be 50 000 samis. Sweden comes in a strong second place with 20 000 samis living in their country. However, Finland comes third with only 9000 samis, and russia with 2000.
no, there's only 2000 in Russia, its mostly in Sweden and Norway which there is up to 20000-60000
@@krigs64 exactly
theshit obligatory disclaimer of “hi am a real living sámi person” lol. numbers of sámi should always be taken with a grain of salt, to be honest. these are only a rough estimate as many samis are pressured to hide their sámi identity. russia has arguably the biggest pressure of conformity; most sámi languages in russia are sadly already extinct. :-( the numbers are likely much higher, but it can’t be pinpointed exactly.
I guess they are still the only indigenous people living in Europe. Long Live The Sami People. ❤
Where is that girl"How dare you"
That girl is deep state just like the rest of her family and the government.
@@connyalbers6032 fine for you Einstein.
Most of the land they are talking about is actually owned by other people, some of them are even sami people themselves not engaged in reindeer herding. Yet still obliged to accept the migratory herding for the reindeer. You should have a discussion about rights, and the impact on the sami way of life... but to simply say that it's "their land" is actually pretty laughable to some of us.
"Most of the land they are talking about is actually owned by other people"
Give evidence of prior inhabitation of Sami land before the Samis actually came in. Also, by evidence, I'm talking about actual empirical research based on the most updated anthropological or archeological data. Not some made-up "alternative facts" based on popular hearsay that many reactionaries like to use when trying to "disprove" something that you don't like.
@@lastrationalist7890 You didn't include the second part of my comment when you quoted me, why not? You seem to add a lot of other social and political statements that have very little to do with what I talked about. Are you alluding to Trump and his supporters? Why?
@@lastrationalist7890 WHGs were in Scandinavia in 7000BC. 5000+ years before the Sami.
@@FottowOkay, nothing you said here disproves my original statement. Which was to give factual evidence of prior inhabitants of people living in Sami land before the ancestors of the Sami people came in. You didn't do that so I can only conclude that you have no evidence to your claim.
@@ashleigh3021 Alright, except there's now concrete evidence that the ancestors of the Sami have lived on Sami land and even across much of southern Scandinavia for at least 3,500 years. Which is already longer than your estimate. Regardless, no other living ethnic group today has lived in Sami land before the Sami came in. Thus they are the indigenous peoples in their region and one of the last indigenous peoples left in Europe period.
Why not moving to Mongolia
Did Mongolia belongs to you ? if not, de should start from your home !
We have never stolen land. It is appalling that the Sami are even counted as an indigenous population. That the Sami would be Sweden's indigenous population is a propaganda myth. Sweden was populated from the south by Germanic tribes when the ice sheet slowly melted and retreated north. These wandered over the land bridge that then connected present-day Sweden to the continent. The Germanic tribes migrated further and further north over the millennia and populated today's Sweden. Today's Swedes are direct descendants of these tribes. When Sweden was populated from the south, large parts of today's Norrland were still covered in ice, and people could therefore not live there. The Sami only came a few millennia later, when the ice melted, from the east from the vastness of Asia and had a strong Mongolian element in their gene bank.
That the Sami came later than the Germans is proven by archaeological research results.
Sweden's oldest finds of human activity have been found in Skåne, in Lockarp and Mölleröd, in the form of some arrowheads and flint implements. These finds are over 14,000 years old.
Norrland's oldest find, which does not have to be from the Sami, but could just as easily be from the Germanic people who came from the south, is "only" about 9,000 years old and was found at Garaselet next to the Byskeälven in Västerbotten.
This means that the Germans were there first, at least 5,000 years earlier than the Sami.
The oldest skeleton found on the Scandinavian peninsula strengthens the evidence for the true aboriginal people of the Nordics. The skeleton was found in Norway with an intact skull of the dolychokephal (long-headed) type, which is the skull shape of the Germanic people. The Sami, on the other hand, have a brachycephalic (short-headed) skull shape. Finally, SVT has also admitted it now with Historien om Sverige, which airs on SVT even though a lot of their history is lies. The Swedes are the indigenous population, we have never had to take land from others, we have always had a country
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Firstly, the Sami are only native to the northern parts of Sweden, roughly the areas around the mountain range Skanderna. They arrived several thousands of years after the first Swedes already settled in the southern parts of Sweden. The rest is just Sami trying to copy the struggles of other native peoples around the world without having any reason to.
@Rob Gorman , LOL!!!!!
Herman Spaerman they are native to the arctic circle which includes Sweden. They are indigenous to the north. In a tall country like Sweden thousands of years ago, I think the distance between the north and south is large enough where people arriving in the south wouldn’t claim being indigenous to the north too, which they probably never even saw. And everyone in the north is struggling due to climate change so not sure what you mean by ‘not having a reason to’. Weird
Rob Gorman are you an anthropologist? Explain that to me
@Rob Gorman EXACTLY
@@kristinasoderberg386 if they would be true nordic they would have White skin, light hair, blue eyes and NON ASIAN EYES, they are not nordic and will NEVER BE!
Scandinavia belong to the Scandinavian people not the sami.
@Amalie Olsdatter nothing belongs to you really and you should give away everything you have and move to Africa.
Because Africa belongs to no one, right?
@Amalie Olsdatter The British empire did nothing wrong when they took land around the world because land don't really belongs to anyone.
@@tiddybearkush Don't be surpised over the naive behaviour from fellow scandinavians, they don't know any better because they were brainwashed by schools and media since birth that liberalism is the greatest thing in the world and that the national state has no value.
Sami are not indigenous to Scandinavia
lol
Europeans are indigenous to europe..
How dare you
I truly cannot believe what I am hearing. People are referring to the Sami as "indegenous"instead of Scandinavians and even calling Scandinavians "colonizers" when it is an absolute fact that the Scandinavians settled their after leaving Germany around 15,000 years ago while the Sami people only arrived in Scandinavia around 2,500-1,500 years ago. This is total madness. This just shows further proof that there are people who do not want Europeans to have and celebrate their roots and culture and to treat us as evil colonizers.
This is a wildly inaccurate statement. The Sami settled the Northern part of Fennoscandia 2500 years ago, and the Germanic people didn't settle in the same region until the early 1300s.
Germanic people settled in Southern Scandinavia a long time ago, but that's hardly the issue at stake. The issue is the Northern lands, which the Sami were absolutely the first to live in.
What's been happening to them since is appalling. I'm Swedish, and my nation has a lot of horrific acts to answer for.
The Sami didn't settle then. They occasionally ventured there.@@NHLfreak87
Still doesn't give them the right to try to kill their culture
@@k0lg040 that's true.. I didn't say all that.
So The Sami People are the Palestinians of Europe ? Free Karelia Now!!!! 😢
All land is sacred!
These are santa claus' kin. Protect them at all cost!
leave the trees alone! Make the forest a national park so it can not be touched! Whats wrong with ppl?!
Are you serious.. iq80
No more right to vote for you.
perhaps we need to look at 2020 and 2021.
Sami it's ancient people's as Nomads of Altay
Frozen 2?
Sami people are Finno-Ugric group. They are related to Finns. Native Nordic people both.
Uralic. Not Nordic.
@@ashleigh3021 Language is another thing.
sad
The Sami are not indigenous tho...
Who are indigenous then?
Yes, they are
@@jayfedder1578 the Swedes
@@marwahussein666 no they are not. The Sami people came from central Asia, much later then the Swedes. No hate against the Sami, just history.
@@yurichtube1162 To be indigenous don't mean to native, they were colonized, so they are indigenous (even though, if you don't agree they are native)
Where are the Swedish indigenous to ?
To Sweden and Scandinavia.
The sami are not the indigenous people it a lie.
@@tiddybearkush I think it is ridiculous that some people are considered indigenous and others not. If the sami are "indigenous" to northern sweden, are not the swedes indigenous to southern sweden?
Im here im also samisk
So even though genetics has shown they came from Siberia, they're indigenous ?
AMVM They’re indigenous to the arctic circle which, if you read the description or looked at a map, includes Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. So to answer your question, ya.
@@kristinasoderberg386 They aren't indigenous to those places (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia). Their genetics show they came from Siberia and are related to the nganasan people. They came here during the bronze age and are (considered) an intrusive population.
Ya man these people are more like old immigrants but definitely don’t predate the Swedish.
@@mr.mcdabington9278 The main ancestors of the Swedish, the boat axe culture (Scandinavia's version of the battle axe culture), predates the Sami. Some "uralics" arrived in the bronze age, while others in the iron age, as late as 500 B.C.
AMVM I can see that happening
i thought they fought those wind turbines!!!
Why would they.. they make money from them.
So black people aren't the only ones being exploited, but hiltler did this first.
what on earth are you talking about?
After studying genetics and seeing that the sami are a Eurasian people with asian and native blood, I'm confused that they all look primarily white in all of the videos and pictures on google. The oldest photos of "indegenous" sami look like a mixture of asian, white & native. So who are these white people claiming sami heritage? Or is this just cultural appropriation?
Sami are very diverse looking depending on the area they are from. Also lots where I live have mixed with non-Sami people and so the appearance changes based on that
@cryptic lish yea...studied. After receiving MY genetic dna reports and receiving over a quarter of asian(mongolian & siberian in particular) and fennoscandian ancestry, I went on to discover that the asian dna comes from "Sami" genes. So it IS my business, having an obvious sami grandparent. So back to my original question...If sami have asian & native dna, why are we only seeing the phenotype of Caucasian & not the more indigenous eurasian features that should obviously be present in at leat some? respectfully
@@ericaadmin5195 First of all, The Sami people were not the first in Scandinavia, WHG(Western Hunter Gatherer) and Pontic Steppe travelers(EHG), their archeological footprints predate the Sammi arrival by a thousand years at least, even more if you follow the the trail of the tools, since the Indo-European languages didn't arrive yet, you might think that they arrived later, but their phenotype corresponds majority of the current Scandinavian population, these are the descendants of Battle-Axe culture, with at most have 25% Yamnaya, turn are the descendants of the Swedes. Second, the Sami people do not look Asian in this sense because they do not belong to one phenotype to begin with, since they have been mixing with Nordic for millennia, you can find that in Sweden, their Siberian ancestry is almost one quarter at most, while on the eastern parts it is at most at 40%; the WHG ancestry has about 50% of the Mesolithic Eastern Hunter Gatherer which it's just another way of saying EHG, so this are the genetic ancestors of the Sami people and they look blonde with blue eyes because in Sweden and some parts of Finland they have very little Siberian ancestry, they have much right to use the clothes they are using as any "asian looking" people you might think Sami you think they should look like. You have been contaminated by the American trash-UN version of Indigenuity.
@@emanueljosuerodriguezcasti4328 thank you for taking the time to further explain. However, I have NOT been contaminated by anything or anyone, just trying to understand my own dna that is 25% asian, that my genetic tests say come from that area & probably those people. I understand that they are a diverse people, I guess my major concern is that, the diversity of the people are not shown in photos & websites when we look into the Sami. ALL of their phenotypes should be acknowledged & honored, not just the Eurocentric versions. I'm sure that they would appreciate being recognized in all of their authenticity. I don't think that is a lot to ask.
@@ericaadmin5195 Hello, I did not expect an aswer so soon, glad I could help. If your concern is that representation, maybe you should look at a documentary about the Sami people in general, You'll find in Russia the ons that resemble asians the most, but this pieces is about the ones that currently live in Sweden and their specific struggle, where they mostly mixed with the scandinavians, they are not appropiating anything, their ancestors who look like them, wore those same clothes. Although similar to siberian clothing, the ones they are wearing were developed long ago bu this particular people and moreso, the fact that you imply as if they were appropiating as if it were some stunt, it's disrespectful, they decided to carry the legacy of their ancestors as a matter of respect. Funny, only white people can't be considered native anywhere, not even in Europe.
I have never heard of indigenous tribes from Europe only from native American.
It's a lie..
The indigenous people of northern Europe are not the sami.
It's corrupt globalist people that trying to change things in third advantage so they can use the whole ide as a control tool.
saamis are the native americans of europe, indegenous people that were ALWAYS regarded as primitive and subhumans, that got colonised, and became exploited minorities on their own lands... the only difference saamis and native americans have is skin color, which also proves that white people CAN be opressed
@@kirilll7806 you can't compare Sami to native Americans since Swedes are also indigenous to Sweden. In fact, they were on the peninsula before the Sami (some 11,500 years ago) but the Sami were first to migrate to the Northern area. Both people are indigenous.
Europeans are Indigenous to Europe. Africans are Indigenous to Africa. Australian aboringals are Indigenous to Australia.
@@LookAtThisGuy_ yeah i get it now
stop logging in sweden!!!
*Correction to your statement* Stop UNSUSTAINABLE logging. Wood is the most sustainable construction material when forests are harvested properly. The alternativea to wood are steel, concrete and plastic, which are all far worse than wood. Fighting against logging while thinking you help the climate is completely stupid
WHY GRETA IS NOT DEFENDING THEM
Because Greta shouldn't be taken seriously
because they are white
Because Greta is Germanic and leftist: Germanics and leftists hate indigenous people.
Hahaha Whaaat?? Sweden Whitest indigenous people complain how They have been colonised because of color of their skin ahahahaha 😅😅😅
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙆🏾🙆🏾 beast in mountains doesn't stop to surprise me
Are you some racist person or?
Hahahha whattt??? No one even mentioned skincolor in the video dumbass
No one even talked about skin colour here ... Sorry if it triggers you that there are also people with a lighter skin colour who are indigenous. You can't just generalize people with white skin, doesn't work. This all is not what the whole topic is about ...
You do know groups of white people have been colonized, right? Ireland and Greece come to mind
Good