I was born in Western Norway, where my mom was also born, her family having been there for centuries. My father was from Finnmark, from a long line of proud fisherman. We moved to the US when I was young and I've spent the bulk of my life here, but still feeling very much Norwegian. It was a lark to recently do my DNA and to find out I'm part Inuit, Finnish, Swedish, as well as Norwegian . Inuit????? Even the Finnish and Swedish was weird. But then I looked at where in Sweden and Finland my DNA was from, and it was from the very northern parts of both of those countries, bordering Norway. Then I looked at my DNA relatives, and many from those areas were wearing traditional Sami Kofte/ Gakti. I then started my geneology. Most records don't say who is Sami and who isn't, but my great grandfather's did, and there were several others, as well. Near as I can figure out, I'm about 40% Sami. And I had no idea, because it was a shameful thing to admit in my father's family. They assimilated and hit it in order to survive. I'm over 60, and I'm just now finding out a bit of who I am, that I'm part of a rich culture with long roots that I resonate with. If one believes in those kinds of connections, it explains my restlessness, an inability to stay in an area for more than 2 years, my connection to nature and to animals, my joy in music and traditional songs from all over the world. And I'm both sad and angry that I've missed out.
I am 40 and did almost the exact same thing you did, and just like you, found out about the erasure, the scattering, the religious education, and my own grandfather who i never met. Apparently there are too many of us figuring this out later in life because NOBODY in our family would admit to it. I only wish I knew what color gakti they wore.....
You have Finnmark in bouth Sweden and Norway, that the Settelment frome the Svedjefinnar. The burnd Land in the Forest that the was able to have Grains of There Homstead. They usuelly came frome Finnland = Finnmark
my family is german and i had been told that we were swedish but after some more digging we figured out we were sámi which explains why we have a lot more slavic features with button noses or “ski jump” noses and round faces that are much different from the lanky sweds with long faces. i’m glad we now know what we are. it feels nice to know that there’s reasons to why we look the way we do ❤💚💛💙
@freddiekrueger8715 people take their culture and traditions with them when they immigrate to other places, just because my family decided to move doesn't make me any less sami it makes me sami-american which is still sami.
I only found out my family descended from the sámi because I was frustrated that I didn't look like any of the other euro-centric people in my life! It's crazy to see how our heritage can really influence how we look and not knowing where we come from can be a source of incredible frustration
My grandfather was a preacher. My grandmother always made me give thanks for nature. Even when I hurt myself she made me go and ask the thing that hurt me take the pain back. Always. I miss her.
Thank you Mari for your strong testimony. I live in Belgium, the European heart (hard?)land. I believe a shift is happening now. More people are tired of our over imposing culture. They reconnect to nature which is nothing more than life itself, maybe they discover something of wildness within and around. From this new roots are growing to our common ancestral heritage which is still here, right under the surface. I believe people like Mari are interconnected, together they are like a protective shield , wathching over this planet...
I was honored to meet Mari very briefly a few years ago. I wish I had known my close biological connection to Saami Loppa peoples then. Such a powerful point of irony, our ancestors lived by the leave no trace and sustainability for our future generations, yet that has made us non-existent in the eyes of Euro-christian and capitalistic greed. I hope to share space with Mari again someday, to learn from her insight and continue to carry the torch forward. I share your wish for equal respect of our scientific and philosophical worlds, particularly for our tree relatives. Ollu Giitu Sámisosa!
living with the land in community with little to no class system has been carried out successfully by so many indigenous communities. thank you for pointing out that European Christianity and capitalism are VERY tied because so many European governments had no problem exploiting indigenous ethnic groups because they were not Christian and therefore subhuman according to colonizers.
Mari Boine you are a beautiful being, planter of seeds of change with your Otherworldly songs and spoken stories. Bless you Sister. The world has a fighting chance, because you are here.❤❤❤🦋🦋🦋
Maris music made such a big difference for me. It made me dear to use my voice. And her story is such a profound one for how indigenous peoples knowledge has been treated, and needs to be listened to, for the good of mankind. It can not be lost.
Thanks you so much for this truth and your nice energy Mari. And yes, it happened through whole Europe, they destroyed our holy oaks, our cultplaces, built churches on it and they burned our wise women. We all have to find our roots back to heal again and to connect to our real animistic nature.
Mari Boine you are an incredible soul and singer ❤️🙏❤️ Thank you for this message. Information, especially in English, about my Samí ancestors is so difficult to find. I really appreciate how respectful you were in describing the cruel ways we were removed and our culture destroyed. Love and light to you, sister of the stars and the moon 💓✨
Mari Boine is amazing, and she makes me proud to be from Norway, but sometimes a little ashamed of being Norwegian, of the people who have been trying to destroy and repress such a rich, beautiful and important culture. When I hear her sing it brings tears to my eyes, both for what has been lost and for what many of us has yet to rediscover.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Let’s lose the drama. Sami culture like many others is amazing and interesting, but tribal domination and expansion is a tale as old as time. Some winners some losers.
@@morespinach9832 Winners and losers. I get your point, I agree with it. To some extent. The thing is, when the game is about sawing the branch you're sitting on, I'd rather be on the losers' side. If there are any sides at all. The Earth is a sphere. Now, why do you think that is ? It is healthy to have enemies, as long as you treat them with respect. No fight can be truly won regardless of that condition. When a people destroys another out of unconsciousness, they bring dishonor upon themselves for generations. Because we know in our core that all humans are brothers. In order not to feel the shame we then need to cut ourselves from it, from our heart. Which leeds to illness. There are laws. Humanity is a body. Losing oneself to win the battle should not be an option anymore. Take care 🫀
She is a goddess. Her album In the Hand of the Night helped me so much through my grief and loss. Thankyou forever and ever. I love you and your voice and power. Thankyou ❤
The Pagans(So many of the different forms from the north and all the way down Europe) also had this rythm, in different sounds, love and respect for the world around them. It's so sad that it's been lost and we've completely forgotten who our ancestors actually were.
Nothing is lost! Humanity all over the globe has lived in shamanic societies from our beginning until appr. 2500 years ago. But even only 1000 years ago, shamanism was still the culture in which the majority of all people on Earth lived. The old wisdom, the old knowledge, the love for Mother Earth and her beautiful nature: it is all still in our genes, in our bone marrow, in our eternal spirit and soul. Nothing is lost as long as millions of people get goose bumps all over when they hear Mari Boine sing, when they "recognize" her music in their hearts, even if they don't understand a word with their ears. We only have to re-member to be able to re-connect... And that's what's happening world wide, right now.
I am Sami and for a long time my family said we were Finnish in America. We aren’t. There is a lot of shame and fear with being Sami. It is unjustified. We are correct in our respect for nature and relations to it.
Strong & Wise human she is Mari Boine,❤ skilled artist & proud 2 be samish. I wish I could some words. BUT in history the culture & offcorse tha language "was in som places succesfully vansihed/destroied". Hope we can do better with ouer planet than the samish culture🌍 ALSO she is so beatyfull & strong. Well, abit like Boine 🔴🟢🟡🔵 (the color of the samish flag)
Dear Mari, The Vatican opened its archives a few years ago. I would be curious to go there, just to find out about shamanistic traditions all over the world.
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I was born in Western Norway, where my mom was also born, her family having been there for centuries. My father was from Finnmark, from a long line of proud fisherman. We moved to the US when I was young and I've spent the bulk of my life here, but still feeling very much Norwegian. It was a lark to recently do my DNA and to find out I'm part Inuit, Finnish, Swedish, as well as Norwegian . Inuit????? Even the Finnish and Swedish was weird. But then I looked at where in Sweden and Finland my DNA was from, and it was from the very northern parts of both of those countries, bordering Norway. Then I looked at my DNA relatives, and many from those areas were wearing traditional Sami Kofte/ Gakti. I then started my geneology. Most records don't say who is Sami and who isn't, but my great grandfather's did, and there were several others, as well. Near as I can figure out, I'm about 40% Sami. And I had no idea, because it was a shameful thing to admit in my father's family. They assimilated and hit it in order to survive. I'm over 60, and I'm just now finding out a bit of who I am, that I'm part of a rich culture with long roots that I resonate with. If one believes in those kinds of connections, it explains my restlessness, an inability to stay in an area for more than 2 years, my connection to nature and to animals, my joy in music and traditional songs from all over the world. And I'm both sad and angry that I've missed out.
Where in Finnmark?
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I am 40 and did almost the exact same thing you did, and just like you, found out about the erasure, the scattering, the religious education, and my own grandfather who i never met. Apparently there are too many of us figuring this out later in life because NOBODY in our family would admit to it. I only wish I knew what color gakti they wore.....
You have Finnmark in bouth Sweden and Norway, that the Settelment frome the Svedjefinnar. The burnd Land in the Forest that the was able to have Grains of There Homstead. They usuelly came frome Finnland = Finnmark
@@enneaf1676 If you know where they were born, you can find the information for at least the bigger towns.
my family is german and i had been told that we were swedish but after some more digging we figured out we were sámi which explains why we have a lot more slavic features with button noses or “ski jump” noses and round faces that are much different from the lanky sweds with long faces. i’m glad we now know what we are. it feels nice to know that there’s reasons to why we look the way we do ❤💚💛💙
@freddiekrueger8715 people take their culture and traditions with them when they immigrate to other places, just because my family decided to move doesn't make me any less sami it makes me sami-american which is still sami.
That makes about as much sense as saying you stop being your ethnicity when you learn another language.
I only found out my family descended from the sámi because I was frustrated that I didn't look like any of the other euro-centric people in my life! It's crazy to see how our heritage can really influence how we look and not knowing where we come from can be a source of incredible frustration
What the Swedes did to the Sámi people was horrible!
Mari Boine's music uplifts, calms and opens hearts. The wisdom carries through, irrespective of language. Thank you Mari Boine ❤💚🧡💛💙💜❤
My grandfather was a preacher. My grandmother always made me give thanks for nature. Even when I hurt myself she made me go and ask the thing that hurt me take the pain back. Always. I miss her.
Found out some time ago that part of my Norwegian Heritage is Samí.
We are here in America too. I feel connected to her songs.
She's a treasure for the world and the wonderful Culture she upholds.
Thank you Mari for your strong testimony. I live in Belgium, the European heart (hard?)land. I believe a shift is happening now. More people are tired of our over imposing culture. They reconnect to nature which is nothing more than life itself, maybe they discover something of wildness within and around. From this new roots are growing to our common ancestral heritage which is still here, right under the surface. I believe people like Mari are interconnected, together they are like a protective shield , wathching over this planet...
I was honored to meet Mari very briefly a few years ago. I wish I had known my close biological connection to Saami Loppa peoples then. Such a powerful point of irony, our ancestors lived by the leave no trace and sustainability for our future generations, yet that has made us non-existent in the eyes of Euro-christian and capitalistic greed. I hope to share space with Mari again someday, to learn from her insight and continue to carry the torch forward. I share your wish for equal respect of our scientific and philosophical worlds, particularly for our tree relatives. Ollu Giitu Sámisosa!
living with the land in community with little to no class system has been carried out successfully by so many indigenous communities. thank you for pointing out that European Christianity and capitalism are VERY tied because so many European governments had no problem exploiting indigenous ethnic groups because they were not Christian and therefore subhuman according to colonizers.
Mari Boine you are a beautiful being, planter of seeds of change with your Otherworldly songs and spoken stories. Bless you Sister. The world has a fighting chance, because you are here.❤❤❤🦋🦋🦋
Her music is excellent. I wish she had more vinyl out. I have so many of her cds.
Maris music made such a big difference for me. It made me dear to use my voice. And her story is such a profound one for how indigenous peoples knowledge has been treated, and needs to be listened to, for the good of mankind. It can not be lost.
Thank you for your story, Mari. So beatifully told.
🌺🌿🔥
Thanks to Marie Boine, ❤️ 💛💙her unique voice, her unique creativity, many people in the world learned about the Sáami culture.
Thanks you so much for this truth and your nice energy Mari. And yes, it happened through whole Europe, they destroyed our holy oaks, our cultplaces, built churches on it and they burned our wise women. We all have to find our roots back to heal again and to connect to our real animistic nature.
The sámi religion survived until the 1800s
Mari Boine you are an incredible soul and singer ❤️🙏❤️ Thank you for this message. Information, especially in English, about my Samí ancestors is so difficult to find. I really appreciate how respectful you were in describing the cruel ways we were removed and our culture destroyed. Love and light to you, sister of the stars and the moon 💓✨
Mari Boine is amazing, and she makes me proud to be from Norway, but sometimes a little ashamed of being Norwegian, of the people who have been trying to destroy and repress such a rich, beautiful and important culture. When I hear her sing it brings tears to my eyes, both for what has been lost and for what many of us has yet to rediscover.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Let’s lose the drama. Sami culture like many others is amazing and interesting, but tribal domination and expansion is a tale as old as time. Some winners some losers.
@@morespinach9832 Winners and losers. I get your point, I agree with it. To some extent.
The thing is, when the game is about sawing the branch you're sitting on, I'd rather be on the losers' side. If there are any sides at all.
The Earth is a sphere. Now, why do you think that is ?
It is healthy to have enemies, as long as you treat them with respect. No fight can be truly won regardless of that condition. When a people destroys another out of unconsciousness, they bring dishonor upon themselves for generations. Because we know in our core that all humans are brothers.
In order not to feel the shame we then need to cut ourselves from it, from our heart. Which leeds to illness.
There are laws.
Humanity is a body.
Losing oneself to win the battle should not be an option anymore.
Take care
🫀
She is a goddess. Her album In the Hand of the Night helped me so much through my grief and loss. Thankyou forever and ever. I love you and your voice and power. Thankyou ❤
Слава Богу Вы живы и здоровы!Радуете своими песнями,распространяя самодийскую культуру,очень приятно слушать и видеть
I am so pleased to have found this lady and her stories. The will help me to sing Vuille from the Film version of it with the SAHC.Thank you .
Mari, your voice is still so young!!!
The Pagans(So many of the different forms from the north and all the way down Europe) also had this rythm, in different sounds, love and respect for the world around them. It's so sad that it's been lost and we've completely forgotten who our ancestors actually were.
it's called colonialism, and coverting to Christianity!
Nothing is lost! Humanity all over the globe has lived in shamanic societies from our beginning until appr. 2500 years ago. But even only 1000 years ago, shamanism was still the culture in which the majority of all people on Earth lived. The old wisdom, the old knowledge, the love for Mother Earth and her beautiful nature: it is all still in our genes, in our bone marrow, in our eternal spirit and soul. Nothing is lost as long as millions of people get goose bumps all over when they hear Mari Boine sing, when they "recognize" her music in their hearts, even if they don't understand a word with their ears. We only have to re-member to be able to re-connect... And that's what's happening world wide, right now.
@@hexxan007Nothing is lost. I remember 🌱🫀⚡
@@maybreathingstone Good, sister, good! Let us re-enchant the world together! 🪄
@@hexxan007 We will 😌
I share your dream. Thank you for what you are doing for our world.
Thank you!
Thank you so much💙
Tears all over, thanks.
me too!
I am Sami and for a long time my family said we were Finnish in America. We aren’t. There is a lot of shame and fear with being Sami. It is unjustified. We are correct in our respect for nature and relations to it.
Strong & Wise human she is Mari Boine,❤ skilled artist & proud 2 be samish. I wish I could some words. BUT in history the culture & offcorse tha language "was in som places succesfully vansihed/destroied". Hope we can do better with ouer planet than the samish culture🌍 ALSO she is so beatyfull & strong. Well, abit like Boine 🔴🟢🟡🔵 (the color of the samish flag)
I love Mari ♡♡ her music and her courage inspire me through many times.
dang i saw a ted talk before it got a ton of comments, leaving my mark
Also the lady is right and shes really cool
My soul trusts Mari Boine
Thank you Mari, I learned something from you
Dear Mari, The Vatican opened its archives a few years ago. I would be curious to go there, just to find out about shamanistic traditions all over the world.
I'm Sámi live in the USA my family is Ter Sámi. Kola Peninsula of Russia 🪆
Tack Mari.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay strong ❤❤❤
This lady looks good for her age! And she can sing!
danke Mari ich liebe Dich🙅♀❤❤🙅♀
that explains my dreams coming true , like seeing the future , thank you .A.L.D.S
Beautiful
Giittus eatnat❄️🙏🏻💚
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🙏🏻❤️
🙌♥️🎼
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❤❤❤❤❤Mari Boine❤❤❤❤
Meegwetch Mari
I love you❤❤❤
Me fan 2!
Köszönöm Anyám.
Lol weirdo Hungarian
Giitu Mari
Let us go home for the sake of our ancestors let us go back to our seidis
..good luck for us you sing...
Quyanaq Mari!
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