Who Are The Sami?

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In the frozen Far-North of Europe, beneath the Northern Lights, lies a land of snow, endless tundra, and dense forests. Where ancient languages and songs echo on the frigid air. Where majestic reindeer roam...majestically.
Anyway...this is Sapmi, home of the Sami people. The indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula.
Located mostly north of the Arctic circle, in Sapmi the sun disappears for months in the winter, and may never set in the summer. This is what midnight looks like in summer. For thousands of years the Sami have not only survived but thrived in this land of -30 degree celsius winters and midsummer snows.
But who are the Sami, what is their story, and wizards...can they help you find your lost socks??? Well Let's Find Out!
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@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

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@maeam 3 года назад

Hi!!

@shrekwithawillsmithface465 3 года назад

@mehakpreetsinghsohi4428 3 года назад

I am requesting you from a long time please make a video on what is Christianity

@lijahsmum 3 года назад

I tried the link but got this error message: 500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERRORCode: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILEDID: sfo1::24c5w-1614479551215-9f08cabc72df I love your videos and am interested in any future stuff you are involved in.

@IronpenWorldbuilding 3 года назад

Mooses might be more fun to say then moose, but meese, beats out them all. Lol

@1307 3 года назад

The erasure of saami culture and language by way of forcing the children into boarding schools reminds me of the residential schools founded in Canada in order to stamp out First Nations culture 😔

@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078 3 года назад

This also happened where I grew up in southern Appalachia with the Muskogee Creek and Chicamauga Cherokee tribes through the 1950s.

@jonathan545 3 года назад

Same thing was happening in Australia with aborigines too, it’s devastating for culture

@maryammahdavi 3 года назад

As Canadian, I agree with that emoji. Settlers back then were evil.

@jennyleung7533 3 года назад

It’s still happening to Uyghur people in China

@ajarofmayonnaise3250 3 года назад

@@jennyleung7533 bruh they isn’t taught they are put in concentration camps to die

@Cosmiccoffeecup 3 года назад

The Yoik singer was so peaceful.

@joelstephenson8017 2 года назад

9:47

@ashlaskash 3 года назад

Somebody's probably already pointed this out, but the modern Sámi flag doesn't represent a drum. It represents a sun-moon symbol that was often depicted on drums. Outside of that minor mistake, this is a top-tier video.

@TheMrPeteChannel Год назад

Also the first flag was unofficial.

@ycasto1063 3 года назад

Broke: Moose Woke: Mooses Ascended: M E E S E

@1leon000 3 года назад

Gods: *_M E E C E_*_-_

@thedodobird1709 3 года назад

Kratos: *_M I I S_*

@cum3448 3 года назад

saami:PORO

@fatpotato3512 3 года назад

Me: M E E Z

@TheEmart13 3 года назад

Even more ascendeder: meeses

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

Thank you for the video! I'm not Sámi, but I'm studying Sámi studies in the university, and I think this was resonably accurate, and raised many of the most important Sámi issues.

@pelayo341 3 года назад

The state of it

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

@@pelayo341 What

@luringen947 Год назад

The Sami are not the indigenous people of Norway! Norwegians were already here 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the Sami came much later, about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

@valkeakirahvi Год назад

@@luringen947 Lol. Norwegians didn't exist back then. Even Proto-Indo-Europeans didn't exist until 6500 years ago.

@luringen947 Год назад

Norwegians come from two ethnic groups. one group came to Norway for approx. 12,000 years ago. and the other group came about 5,600 years ago. but the Sami did not arrive until 2000-2500 years ago. and mingled with us. you can just google and you will see.

@Jo-Heike Год назад

As a Sami I found this video surprisingly accurate, and detailed, not that both couldn't have been improved.

@Kapteinpro 10 месяцев назад

duohtavuohta

@Kapteinpro 10 месяцев назад

I am also a Sami. Sad thing is when my class is learning about our people, all the girls are disreapecting our people and all the boyse are speachless.

@datpiff2344 2 года назад

My ancestors were sami and this is such a useful video, my great grandfather passed away before i could really talk to him about our finnish/semi ancestry. I just wish I could have wathed this video with him. I know he would have loved it. Thank you.

@laurelcook9078 Месяц назад

Mine too, mine died at war in a plane crash.

@zahando5420 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for making this video and educating the internet about my people. Eatnat áktet!

@shinydas1767 3 года назад

This video makes me so sad. I wish all of human race treated nature with respect, and didn't let greed get the better of us. Great video...loved learning about the Sami. Love from India.

@Hoe-numan5 2 года назад

You guys kill Adivasis in India

@shinydas1767 2 года назад

@@Hoe-numan5 yes we did, and I wish that didn't happen.

@Hoe-numan5 2 года назад

@@shinydas1767 it still happens whyyy

@Hoe-numan5 2 года назад

@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh where are you from

@feargripper 2 года назад

@@shinydas1767 this didn’t age well lmaooooooo

@Joseph-qd9ew 3 года назад

I was just thinking yesterday “what if cogito did a video on the Sami” 😂 thanks cogito!

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

I sensed it and made this for you : D

@chrischilleen5131 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu Wizard O.O

@frostyalaska6371 3 года назад

Please do a video on the Alaskan natives extremely under appreciated culture

@psycologo121 3 года назад

Have you seen Molly of Denali

@gailism 3 года назад

Are they different from Inuit in Canada?

@098saw 3 года назад

There was a great little game called never alone that followed one of the Alaskan native peoples stories

@frostyalaska6371 3 года назад

@@gailism Very different the brooks mountain range separated them completely the inupiaqs spoke a different language but are always called inuits. Theres many different groups do to the size all with there own unique languages and cultures. Do to the horrible atrocities of the boarding schools. almost all of our languages an cultures were destroyed by taking kids over the age of 5 and having the older kids beat the younger kids for speaking there native tounge since we were all oral cultures it just devasted our ability to keep our history alive. They even banned singing and dancing because it was how we memorized and kept our stories throughout the years. We dont even get compensation the "indians" in the lower 48 get 50 grand by age 21. Sorry for the long rant haha just passionate about my ancestors past wish it was known to more people, hopefully theyll make a video on it and teach more people about us.

@gailism 3 года назад

@@frostyalaska6371 Thank you for sharing! I have met some Inuit Canadians but did not know that there was much difference from Alaskan natives. Natives in Canada went through a very similar experience as the one you described. We had residential schools all across the country until the 1990s that tried to take away language and culture from the native people here. The government even killed sled dogs up north to stop people from moving around. Some people in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon still speak Inuktitut though, and Cree is also widely spoken

@brandonhiraeth4537 2 года назад

It's heartbreaking what the rich and powerful did to the tapestry of beautiful and diverse cultures of the world.

@siervodedios5952 2 года назад

@Eric Walls As well as alcoholism, disease, genocide, poverty, erasure of their culture and language, human trafficking, etc. All these has been done to not just the Sami, but also the Ainu of Japan; Native Americans and various other Indigenous Americans throughout North, Central, and South America, the Aboriginal Australians of well Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, etc. If you truly think this bs is good for these people than you're even more moronic than I thought.

@zsoltsandor3814 3 года назад

This is an exceptionally well put together video, absolutely high quality in all aspects. As a Hungarian with a special fondness for the Sámi people, I shall say: giitu.

@mysteriousDSF Год назад

Yes, we should embrace our real origins than claiming to be Turkic or Iranic. Maybe Orbán is personally a Turkic-Iranic person but Hungarians aren't.

@alexwall7204 3 года назад

I particularly enjoyed the visuals this video, they were really well done! Thanks for the content as always, Cogito. There's a great museum section on the Sami in a museum (the Nordiska museum) in Stockholm, for those interested and visiting.

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

yepp, and some beautiful stolen artifacts, that we Sámi are trying to return to their families.... colonialism...

@pelayo341 3 года назад

Charly KatBat owned

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

@@pelayo341 ?

@KellieSuttle 2 года назад

"I know it's 'moose', but 'mooses' is more fun to say." Not all heroes wear capes. ❤

@maeam 3 года назад

Idk why, But RU-vid isn’t giving me notifications for y'all. Like this is the first upload i've seen since the history of tea.

@spongeboblover7052 3 года назад

same problem

@jenelaina5665 3 года назад

@@spongeboblover7052 I got one for this one, but the first one in ages. Since Tea too, pretty sure.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Thanks for letting me know. RU-vid is really bad at telling subscribers about their subscriptions

@jenelaina5665 3 года назад

@Ze Porg done that no dice

@maryammahdavi 3 года назад

Same

@heathenfire 3 года назад

I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the land of the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

@jameskosusnik1102 3 года назад

I come from a very similar land, Alaska the land of the midnight sun, our native cultures and their histories are very similar, sadly. Have a great day, blessed be.

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

Too bad all the springs are cold in Sápmi :D

@cheriann6461 3 года назад

lol. Apparently not too many Led Zepplin fans, on this thread.

@heathenfire 3 года назад

@@cheriann6461 apparently not😅

@heathenfire 3 года назад

@@jameskosusnik1102 hi I've never met anybody from Alaska. are you of native American descent?

@TurtleChad1 3 года назад

*A turtle approves of the Sámi people*

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

And I approve of this turtle

@buzzthebuzzer6230 3 года назад

Thanks turtle

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

On behalf of the Sámi people, giitu =)

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

@Kadir Garip on behalf of the people of the land, children of sun and wind, guardians of the reindeer - yes If you want to take the piss, do it properly.

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

@Kadir Garip since most of us Sámi don't live in Sapmi anymore, we don't call ourselves "people of Sapmi" aka "people of the land" but just simply Sámi people (we're not one "tribe" given our different history, language, Gákti and culture)

@Sarah-bd1yr 3 года назад

If you are curious about how the Sámi language sounds, Frozen 2 has been dubbed in Sámi! There are videos of it available on youtube

@ChantelStays 3 года назад

Kristoff is Sami for sure

@alis.b.4631 2 года назад

@@ChantelStays That honestly could be! Makes sense now.

@emenefer 3 года назад

I'm thankful for content creators like you. I'm fascinated by indigenous peoples' culture but far too lazy to do the research.

@grizzlybearkid3265 3 года назад

i encourage you to put in the effort! it's the least we can do living in a colonized world

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Happy to help people learn about indigenous people. Most people wouldn't bother to even watch a video, so you're not lazy :)

@pas-giaw6055 3 года назад

I agree with all of the people, every one liked

@emenefer 3 года назад

@@grizzlybearkid3265 I think my best effort was checking out the museum of anthropology in Dumaguete. Although even my own folks don't have all the pieces to their own past.

@copeandseethe9279 3 года назад

@@grizzlybearkid3265 the Sami were not colonised. Nords existed before they did.

@Protoplanetary 2 года назад

it's important to note that "Sámi" as a language encompasses a large range of dialects, which each belong to a unique culture within the larger Sámi one. Northern Sámi is the most stable out of all of them, and is what most Sámi media is made in today

@david82633 Год назад

There are 10 recognized languages aswell as the extinct ones spoken in Kemi and Kaiinu, and within each language there are many dialects

@Atlas_Uncharted 2 года назад

Otters are magical. Look at the way they hold onto each other. They show us the importance of community and looking after each other. Otters are great fishers and quite intelligent. Also I did a tiny bit of looking into it and the Sami saw their lives on both the land and on sea as a crossing of two worlds and connected that to shamanistic practice. Some Sami tamed otters to help with fishing. Also they are extremely cute.

@kramp154 3 года назад

Thankyou so much, whenever you two make a video it really is a gift

@kramp154 3 года назад

Cogito im sorry to ask but no nebula commentary?

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

The commentaries have stopped for now because we haven't had a good recording space. We're setting something new up at the minute :)

@kramp154 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu ok thankyou, they are definitely the highlight on the site, and so fun, take your time and thankyou for all you do, love the origins of peoples and things series,

@nebiru00 2 года назад

This is so nice. Other history channel's pick apart the Mediterranean but when they get to this part of the world it's like " Then some scary sailors came from here and wrecked stuff, anyway here's wonderwall".

@CJBroonie 2 года назад

Someone watches oversimplified!

@Kurtizss 3 года назад

Saami Culture in 9th-19th Century: Stop please!! Saami Culture in 20th-21st Century: *The Future is now old man*

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

I have to admit, I first was very sceptic about your video. I always am, when it comes to my people, as sadly a lot usually gets sugar coated, not to offend modern Swedish or Norwegian ears. And although I (surprisingly) widely agree with your video, there is one thing I'd like to add. In Sweden, we're still legally a "foreign minority", so we're not seen as the indigenous people of northern Sweden (at least as a legal status), and sadly also in a lot of people's heads, we're still just "stupid, smelly reindeer herders". But as you said yourself, we Sámi have time on our side, and we know how to wait. Mus lea sáme siellu!

@pelayo341 3 года назад

Go back to asia

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

@@pelayo341 Dude, I'm European. Doavki!

@ANTSEMUT1 3 года назад

@@pelayo341 you do realise that only 20%-15 of the Sami people's dna is of "recent" asian origin.

@lemonlemonade9497 3 года назад

@@pelayo341 shut up they are European

@lemonlemonade9497 3 года назад

@@charlykatbat4468 don't listen to those people. They are probably from USA trying to divide us more like they did to themselves. You guys are Europeans and natives as much like others. We came from the same hunter gatherers anwyas. We just mixed with different people.

@heavenly2k 2 года назад

These videos are something special. Never voyeuristic, just wanting to learn about and respect others. I love it.

@anterb2540 3 года назад

this is a pretty good introduction to the sami people, its the best english video i have found so far on YT, good work!

@evropatsar4282 3 года назад

Please do a video on the Iroquois confederacy, they are an amazing people, also loved this video

@djamelben9221 3 года назад

10:48 i never knew i would want to marry a voice seriously though all my respect to the saami people and hope that you keep fighting for you culture without any casualty _an amazigh man

@SweetLilWren 3 года назад

Wow! Absolutely fascinating, I had never heard of these people I'm so happy that I found your video this was just so frikkin great!!

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha 3 года назад

400th like ... and Yes Young Blood Otters are truly amazing ... in some of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation the story of how soil came to be so the first person could plant the tree of life . The Tuscarora ( the People of the Hemp) tell wonderful stories of the Otter. Part of my family is Scandinavian/Sámi genetically, many blessings upon you for this video.

@jameskosusnik1102 3 года назад

Thank you for doing this video Cogito, My home of Alaska, unfortunately its natives share a similar history from both the russians and Americans. Good video Cogito and greetings from Anchorage, Alaska.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Interesting fact, the USA imported Sami into Alaska to teach the native Alaskans how to heard reindeer

@jameskosusnik1102 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu Thats so cool 😎. Although I believe I've heard of it but it was in elementary school, I think. Sometime when I was a kid. Could you also do a history of Alaska video as well?

@jameskosusnik1102 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu also you should try reindeer sausage if you come to alaska Cogito, its amazing

@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 3 года назад

The major difference is that the Sami are technically not even indigenous to Europe. They migrated west into northern Scandinavia from Siberia just a couple thousand years ago. Hence why they have Asiatic features. The majority population of Scandinavia today, the Nordic people who are descendants of Vikings, are the indigenous people of the region.

@mehmetcanoner7897 3 года назад

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Same with Indo European groups. IE people came from north caucasus to euro,assimilated entire old european groups.Almost no people of eurasia is actually native to nowhere.

@takdangkasaysayan9098 Год назад

I do remember this from Frozen. I am proud that Frozen represents the Sami people as well.

@GreasyFox 2 года назад

The eradication of Sami culture is a dark spot in the history of Scandinavia.

@SveinJohnnyFedje Год назад

Blame Christianity. The same was done to Scandinavians between 900-1000bc.

@đœwæþ 2 месяца назад

@SveinJohnnyFedje Christianity didn't exist in 1000 bc

@anxiousfoodperson8116 3 года назад

I was so sure yoiks was just Cogito saying yikes in an Irish accent

@AmbientFocusAudio 2 года назад

Just saw this on Nebula, very good - and amusing in a delightfully silly way. 🙃 It's a sad state of affairs that I, as a Swedish citizen from birth, learned more about our indigenous population from an Irishman in a half-hour video on the internet than in 36 years of life. I only really knew they herd reindeer (didn't know they used to hunt), that colonialism went about as well for them as for the natives across the Arctic, that we committed cultural genocide through forced assimilation of their children like Britain/Canada did to the Inuit and First Nations, and the forced sterilisation. And the parliament and TV/radio programmes of course - pretty feeble as reparations go. Like all Christian peoples (I reckon the Christ dude in that word might take issue with that), ours is a history of unbelievable hypocrisy - right up until recent times. We should be teaching this history in schools from a very early age - we are no better than the British, French or Spanish, we too have exploited, persecuted and murdered people on the native lands which we have stolen from them. As we see the precursors to genocide falling into place all over Europe, we need to be teaching about ALL colonialism in EVERY part of the world from the perspective of the colonised here as in all majority-white countries, but we should start at home! I knew very little or next to nothing beyond "they worship nature and stuff", knew about yoik but not its significance, knew there was some sort of shamanistic thing going on, heard of the creation myth. And I love Lapphundar! One of the oldest and most intelligent dog breeds, and total little charmers. They need a ton of exercise and activity though, so I think I'll have to do without their company. Anyway, thanks, great vid.

@shadrichardson6627 Год назад

My family escaped to America in 1898 and I think I understand why now.

@Artur_M. 3 года назад

Your 'Peoples' videos are my favourite. Anyway, time to listen to some Yoik bangers.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Yoiks bangers are my new favourite genre of music. They make everything sound epic

@JixieDyeAuthor 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu I was glad you put Keiino in there and Frozen, both my favourite Yoik/Joiks and was glad to see new ones too!

@abthedragon4921 3 года назад

I had a feeling these people would be next. Fascinating culture

@liezelvevang5306 Год назад

I love Sami people remind me of the Philippines indigenous people called Aeta that have been through so much tough times in there own land😞❤️

@chavamara 3 года назад

I documented a series of slides covering a research expedition among the Sapmi people for the Bata Shoe Museum a few years back! Glad to learn a bit more about them now. :)

@lucas.ruault 3 года назад

I prefer the plurals “ Meece” or “Moosi” for Moose .

@panntherapannthera4093 3 года назад

I was born in the UK and just got my maternal DNA results showing the Sami people as my ancestors. I responded on a visceral level to their mythology, drumming and yoiks from this video and intend to explore my roots further. Thank you for such a well-made and contemporary video

@antifazisbonifaz6964 2 года назад

Is that possible? Some sami came with the drakkars of vikings in the year 536 AD and settled in Great Britain? And his Dna can still bee traced? It sounds very dubious to me sorry. Perhaps a more prosaic, modern, normal explanation? (your great great grandmoder came from Samni to England as a cook for some rich diplomat who were in Finland? or some simmilar history)

@eclecticraeen Год назад

@@antifazisbonifaz6964my results said the same thing and also linked me to great Britain as well. I was confused by this because of how I look and the fact that I was linked to anywhere in between e everywhere else is indigenous Americas and A LOT of places in Africa. This confused me.. especially after researching I couldn't understand the link.. especially looking through family records I'd hoped to find maybe one side of family there and I guess in great Britain but my research was to no avail. This is the first video that has been this good with details so now I understand completely. ❤

@eclecticraeen Год назад

@@antifazisbonifaz6964I'm just a mix of the worlds indigenous 🥲

@antifazisbonifaz6964 Год назад

@@eclecticraeen a very good lineage. You should be proud of it. Very remarkable 👍👍👍👏👏👏🙂👌👌

@donovannewton8242 3 года назад

The Sámi people, send representatives to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (DAPP). Which was the largest indigenous protest in North America.

@DasIllu 3 года назад

Goose - Geese Moose - Meese The more you know.

@scottbruner9987 3 года назад

I looked up some more Yoiks o RU-vid. Absolutely beautiful! Thanks Cogito, for introducing me to a new form of entertainment.

@Aeyekay0 3 года назад

That was a really well done video, I knew a little bit about the Sami but now I feel very educated. Good work

@dominiccummings1893 3 года назад

Hail to the otters!

@oddmahttesara773 3 года назад

You’re going love the fact that there’s a small village which is called: the otter

@newone5198 3 года назад

13:02 Finns did not force Sami to move to north, actually. For a large part, Sami people in the south melted into Finns.

@paikio 3 года назад

As far as I know Finns robbed and killed Sámi and that's why Sámi moved to north. If I'm wrong and you have some sources I could read or something please let me know I definitely want to know more about our history

@FINNSTIGAT0R 3 года назад

@@paikio One thing about us Finns is that we never ever will admit any large scale wrong doings towards any other people group. That's because it messes up our self image as innocent, honest, just people. You see us Finns like to see ourselves as victims of constant oppression (Swedish and Russian oppression), which washes away our own sins. I know little of how much Finns did cruel things to Sami, but I do know about our tendency to see ourselves as pure of evil, especially the evils of European style colonisation and oppressing other peoples. That's one of the Finnish soul's corner stones - the self image of pure innocence in all things bad and cruel.

@paikio 3 года назад

@@FINNSTIGAT0R yeah I know Finns like to ignore everything that's wrong in this country. Funny thing is Finland is still treating Sámi like crap.

@GodsGreatest 3 года назад

@@FINNSTIGAT0R that is just how humans are . Only small percentage of humans admit such truths and you should be proud to be one of them . Believe me , even In Africa , some tribes did bad things but they completely deny because they weren't the oppressed ones . Thanks 😊

@askman1116 2 года назад

@@FINNSTIGAT0R Varmaan oot kuunnellu joitain saamelais nationalisteja. Useat tutkijat nykypäivänä kyseenalaistaa väitteet jostain väkivaltaisesta kolonisaatiosta.

@LodiJP 3 года назад

I thought I knew about the Sami... but this video was WAY more in-depth than I thought! Learnt loads!

@sparksi2519 2 года назад

Weird. Im Finnish and learned a whole lot from this. I mean what I knew beforehand can be summed up in "yeah, so there is this people up north who herd reindeer, have drums with stickfigures on them, like blue clothing and apparently our government was a bit of dick to them sometime ago." 🤔

@Lemwell7 3 года назад

In what sense are they indigenous in a way that other Europeans are not? Edit: as I understand it now, what’s notable is they are ‘indigenous minorities’. It’s not that they are more indigenous than the Norwegians, it’s that they are a minority community in Norway that is indigenous to Norway.

@oddmahttesara773 3 года назад

He actually try to explain that, the first people to come to Scandinavian after the ice melted are the ancestors of the Sami, yes it’s true that the language is from the east but that is just because the migrants from the east got integrated with the already existing people

@Lemwell7 3 года назад

@@oddmahttesara773 I saw that, that doesn’t really answer the question though (not to sound rude). In what sense are the Sami indigenous to northern Fennoscandia in a way the Swedes are not to southern Sweden?

@jael3177 3 года назад

@@Lemwell7 They're not. Obviously, most European ethnic groups are Indigenous to their land, like the French in France. Indigenous is a term primarily used to refer to stateless minorities, but even then UN recognizes other European peoples as Indigenous, such as the Basque and Circassians. The Sami have just gotten notoriety because their history has been compared frequently to that of the Native Americans.

@BELZAURA 3 года назад

The sami comes from Asia The other European groups come from east Europe or are the Basque who come from western Europe

@jokemon9547 3 года назад

@@oddmahttesara773 Claiming Sami are indigenous on the basis that the proto-Samic speakers assimilated the scattered paleo Europeans in the region does not really make sense in my opinion. Sami are linguistically Finno Ugric and genetics wise are connected to other Finno Ugric speakers. Those scattered paleo Europeans left really nothing behind, except for a handful of loanwords in Samic languages. Even cultural and religious remnants seem to be pretty much nonexistent since the Sami religion had the same basic principles and roots of other religion practiced by Uralic speakers. Same goes for reindeer herding, that is a common thing among Uralic people too. Even the creation myth with the white heavenly reindeer is very similar to myths found among Ugric and Samoyedic people. They are not a continuation of the people who were there before, they are a continuation of the people who came out on top culturally and linguistically, which was Finno Ugric migrants into the region.

@ap9893 3 года назад

The art, the subject, the educational value on this video was *chef's kisses* Thank you for this video!I had never heard of these indigenous peoples before.

@tateoien871 3 года назад

Been waiting to see you cover this! Love your content, you inspired me to check our Sikhi for a time. Would you consider doing an episode on the Assyrian people, culture, religion, etc? That's another cultural group that I find utterly fascinating.

@daginn896 3 года назад

Its importaint for ppl to know that "urfolk" in Norway and Sweden, the status the Sami ppl have is not a synonyme for "indigenous" as in refrence to for example Native Americans. While the Sami ppl inhabited the utmost upper northern parts of Scandinavia, they came later than the ancestors of modern day Swedes and Norwegians, who inhabited the southern and middle Scandinavia. The reason the Sami ppl have "urfolk" status - or "indigenous" as a close term, is because they were present before the formation of the Scandinavian countries (about 9000 thousands years after the first settelers). Because of that, and because the are a minority they are regarded as indigenous.

@themangospy8288 2 года назад

Yes, the term indigenous as applied to the Sami is a political status rather than as native settlers. In fact, the Sami being regarded as the only indigenous people in Europe by certain organisation has confused many to believe they are the only European natives. Really offensive actually. 😞

@christianmiller9934 3 месяца назад

Indigenous in a political sense just means a peoples who land is colonized which Sampi is it doesn’t mean first to have arrived

@jeostone5255 3 года назад

Dude you editing is just so good.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Thank you :D

@jeostone5255 3 года назад

@@CogitoEdu hey, if you don't mind, It would be great for you to make a skillshare class. It could earn you some pocket money, and for people who are starting youtube like me, it would be great to have lessons from the best. Thanks!

@Benni777 3 года назад

This culture is so cool! This is the VERY first time that I’ve EVER heard of this culture! I guess I’ve heard of them before from Frozen, but I’ve never k ew of the name of this culture! It’s so sad what colonization has done to this culture and other indigenous cultures around the world! Thank u SO MUCH for enlightening me about the Sami people! ☺️

@ManiacMayhem7256 2 года назад

@SpätzlenFoxTea quiet

@brittanyhayes1043 2 года назад

There white \0/

@ManiacMayhem7256 2 года назад

@@brittanyhayes1043 uh what point are you trying to make?

@eionthegod Год назад

Well it’s not really a case of colonialism since the Norse(the ancestors of the Norwegian and Swedish) have been there for thousands of years as well it’s more of a case of one powerful group subjugating a weaker group which has happened throughout all of human history doesn’t make it any less bad it’s just not colonialism

@scythianking7315 Год назад

@@eionthegod These people are idio ts. They think anyone that lives in a Tipi is "indigenous". Sami are the Colonizers here, they arrived THOUSANDS of years after the Norse. Anyone with even 10 minutes of Anthropoligcal study under their belts knows this

@HoH 3 года назад

I had to go to your channel and open this video through your videos tab to get here. I'll leave a comment for the algorithm. Very frustrating I can imagine.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Thank you :)

@carrinahanson9821 Год назад

The parallels of the Sami and the indigenous people of North and South America are striking. Oddly, Christianity seems to be the common denominator in their erasure. Culture after culture Christianity has destroyed. It's heartbreaking. I'm grateful that the Sami are still here to tell their stories of their ancestors, and continue their stewardship of the earth.

@Ignisan_66 Год назад

It is amazing and beautiful that these peoples learned about and accepted Christianity. They gained access to Heaven. For Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior said that no one comes to the Father except through Him. Accept the Gospel and the Gates of Heaven shall open before you.

@carrinahanson9821 Год назад

@@Ignisan_66 Jesus didn't advocate for cultural genocide. They didn't just accept Christianity, it was forced on them. Btw, if you're so interested in the gospel, you'd know that Jesus wasn't sent for everyone. Only Yahweh's chosen people. Christianity is a scam from the Romans to regain power, and they succeeded. Bravo.

@SveinJohnnyFedje Год назад

The Sami came and settles on the Scandinavians land. Not the other way around. But yes, Christianity also fucked Scandinavians. Convert or die was the choice. Most Sami settled here in Norway hundreds of years after this and most of the Norwegian population was already brainwashed.

@brianpingle4175 9 месяцев назад

we went to a small war killed a swedish catholic king and where driven out of europe to north america in the 1600s but never written down.

@espribrockway 3 года назад

Just found out through ancestry dna that im almost 50% Sámi and Siberian. Just don't tell my Irish dad hahah.

@markdenney7977 Год назад

I was very lucky as an Englishman, to have lived with a Sami family on the island of Kvaløya, close to Trømso for 2 years. Really was an amazing experience. I have travelled a lot, but that was the most memorable time.

@miriamzajfman4305 3 года назад

Yoiks - a truly beautiful sound 👍

@jokemon9547 3 года назад

"Around 1000 CE, Finns began to force the Sami north." This isn't really the case though, the heartlands of settlement by the Finnish tribes were still in southern Finland and would be for centuries. Now of course there were people who did go further north during this time and even before, but those were mainly hunters, trappers and traders. Some permanent settlements were established, but those were few and far between and mainly served a purpose of trade. Finns did not expand into the rest of Finland in a meaningful way until Sweden started settling Finns further north (and into other regions like the Karelian isthmus and Ingria) in the 1500s/1600s.

@jokemon9547 3 года назад

@@finnicpatriot6399 Ok, I accidentally deleted my first response. But yes, I do know Finns were in the region before 1000 CE. The point of my comment was that Finns did not migrate and settle beyond southern Finland in a large migration before Sweden started moving Finns around into the "empty" lands that was the rest of Finland. This video implies that Finns were somehow already by 1000 CE pushing Sami north more and more and settling further north on a large scale, which was not the case at the time.

@christianmiller9934 3 месяца назад

@@jokemon9547Finland did still sterilize them and try to take their culture away so

@princesspat5239 3 года назад

i never knew i loved sami culture until now

@Roncellius 3 года назад

We learn way too little Samí history even here in Sweden. There was some in the curriculum, especially regarding one of the Samí languages, but it is honestly shameful how much they don't teach. I knew about the forceful sterilization, but I am certain most Swedes my generation don't. We really need to teach this, I am ashamed watching this video with how much I didn't know. The things the Swedish government have done to "repay" the Samí for what can only be described as humanitarian crimes are way too poor and almost disrespectful. Thanks for the video Cogito!

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

So happy to hear that this video was useful to you. Learning about the Sami is so important to Nordic people. It's a shame the entire history isn't taught

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

Yes, this video was more informative on the topic than all my school education in Finland.

@oddmahttesara773 3 года назад

Colonialism has that as a side effect

@jokemon9547 3 года назад

Wait, so the classification for Sami being "indigenous" is because their supposed ancestors (paleo Europeans) got completely assimilated by proto-Samic speakers belonging to the Finno Ugric people with nothing being left behind from their culture(s) and language(s) except for a handful of paleo European loanwords in Samic languages?

@felixjohnston3402 3 года назад

White people can't be indigenous to anywhere. It's why the Maori and Bantu are considered "natives" but the English and Germans aren't.

@fatrooster4632 3 года назад

@@felixjohnston3402 Indigenous is a legal category. The Scandinavian countries were the first countries to recognize Sami as indigenous.

@fatrooster4632 3 года назад

Indigenous is a legal category. The Scandinavian countries were the first countries to recognize Sami as indigenous.

@fatrooster4632 3 года назад

@@anonanon8057 It is a legal category and the Sami are legally recognized by the Scandinavian governments as indigenous and they're the only people in Europe who are labeled as legally indigenous by any European government

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

@@anonanon8057 It's literally a legal category though. I understand that you feel differently but the Nordic nations and other colonial states might use words differently than you

@marcusfridh8489 3 года назад

My theory for the otters, and looms, and both other animals that live in water and on land, is that water is sacred and even seen as one of the portals to the spiritworld in most north and centraleuropean cultures, . in the late bronze age and in the iron age, sacrifices was made in lakes and creeks, both material objects and human sacrifices, the humen sacrifices became the bogmummies like the egtveds girl, the tollund man and so on.

@ryanbright1363 2 года назад

At 2:18 I have to correct you as a Ural myself. Whilst modern Sámi are largely European in DNA, their origin begins in North Asia & Eurasia & their ancestors are Cro Magnon whereas Indo-Europeans are from the Yamna branch.

@mudshovel289 2 года назад

So do you mean that Sami are primarily descended from the ancestral European population known as Western Hunter Gatherers?

@scythianking7315 Год назад

Cro Magnon were from Central Europe, around the French and Italian Alps. Not from Siberia. Also, ALL Europeans DNA is originally from Eurasia, includiing Indo-European Yamnaya

@spaceyofficial.0127 10 месяцев назад

I just learnt something new and I will be looking more into this to be educated thank you 🙌🏾

@thrownchance 3 года назад

19:56 how are wind turbines destroying grasing lands? Where I am from they basically just need 10m and are spaced about 7times the diameter (so 400m - 700m) or so apart. And they are tall enough to stay above the trees anyway.

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

The actual turbines aren't the only thing needing space though, they also need roads and power lines to function. As far as I understand, the reindeer are also afraid of power lines and turbines and might refuse to go near them. They are also harming the area's natural beauty, and thus value to tourism. The biggest problem however seems to be, that the companies pushing for wind farms aren't asking for the Sámi people's consent properly. The irresponsible behaviour is making them inherently distrust the projects.

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

@@valkeakirahvi Yeah the Sàmi aren't anti wind farm. They're anti building windfarms on their land without their permission and hurting they're livlihoods. There is a lot of room in Sweden but Sami land is always seen as disposable

@tuff9486 2 года назад

@@CogitoEdu Unfortunatly it´s not Sami land, it´s swedish land. But most of sweden is covered in forrest, except the north. There is a almost an extinction of grassland and fields in sweden. Most fields are farmland ,and you can´t really build on a farm. This is why they have to impose on the Sami

@christianmiller9934 3 месяца назад

@@tuff9486yeah that’s not true first of all it is Sami land it’s literally called Sampi it’s just the land was stolen/conquered by Sweden so doesn’t automatically make it Swedish land lol and also you aren’t required to have flat grassland to have windmills it’s just the Swedish government is racist and can’t be bothered to force any of its own citizens to give up their land headass

@sisenor4091 2 года назад

I just love this video. Funny and very respectful.

@Tjonny1000 2 года назад

Thank you for giving voice to indigenous peoples, movements for decolonization, and challenges Eurocentricism.

@brittanyhayes1043 2 года назад

I don't think this is going to help decolonization buddy. Decolonization is not happening.Erucentralism is going to stay but the Native cultures ca. Be revived within it.

@ManiacMayhem7256 2 года назад

@@brittanyhayes1043 with a rising China and a further declining USA and Europe, im not sure Eurocentrism will remain dominant

@veronicajensen7690 5 месяцев назад

Scandinavian didn't colonize the land, Scandinavians arrived thousands of years before Sami, the Sami population were pressed into Sweden and Noway about 2000 years ago , the Swedes and Norweigian ancestors came there 12,000 years ago , how early Sami came to Finland i'm not sure but I think it was 3500 years ago the label indigenous is a legal term to protect their culture and language, it does not mean they are native to the land

@elle7938 Год назад

10:49 What was the yoik listening sample? Please it’s so pretty!!

@chelseap2071 3 года назад

Wow, it just struck me... How do they mark the passing of time in the winter when the sun is gone for months? How do you know when to sleep, when to wake up? By the stars maybe? Or do the auroras help somehow? Would be a wild experience.

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

Yes, in the old days the Sámi were observing the stars to keep the time. It's also not completely dark during the day, it gets lighter, but the sun just doesn't rise above the horizon. Sometimes they also worked during the night in the moonlight.

@chelseap2071 3 года назад

@@valkeakirahvi Fascinating! And beautiful. Thank you!

@luralord9202 2 года назад

I'm a norwegian, and I really wish my people treated the sami better than we did.

@SveinJohnnyFedje Год назад

You do know that Christianity did worse to our forefathers the Vikings right? Convert or die was the choice. Most of the Sami and their decedents came hundreds of years after this happened.

@victor9sur768 3 года назад

the most confusing thing to me on the Mappa Mundi is the two fecking Wombles bashing each other with axes, they're just above the Sami skier

@charlykatbat4468 3 года назад

really? That's the most confusing thing about the Mappa Mundi? Honestly I couldn't even pick one single thing, maybe a "Top 20" or something like that haha

@Ignisan_66 Год назад

I'm Slovak and the word Sami is funny to me cause in Slovak language "sami" means "alone". (Specifically "we alone", it is a plural nominative of the word "sám" which means "alone").

@milkypants7778 3 года назад

I learned more from this video about the Saami than 12 years of school did.

@oddmahttesara773 3 года назад

Let me guess, you’re Scandinavian

@milkypants7778 3 года назад

@@oddmahttesara773 Yeah, I’m Norwegian and the two most boring “sub subjects” in school are “Nynorsk” (a less popular version of Norwegian written by a minority of the population) and Sámi history. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when I enjoyed learning about them here, something I wouldn’t imagine ever doing during school.

@2010stoof 2 года назад

Learning a whole lot on your channel. Things I never knew about

@donovan5656 3 года назад

They seemed so chill. Literally.

@teresarivasugaz2313 3 года назад

This is a wonderful video, I have always wanted to know about the Sámi but I had no idea of the scale of their suffering. Every time I stumble upon some video or article about how some people were massacred and their culture erased in the name of religion and progress, I feel so angry and disgusted that my parents had me baptised and raised as Catholic. I don't care that there are religious people who are horrified by these atrocious things, nothing can remove the metaphorical vomit I feel covered in.

@jokemon9547 3 года назад

Same thing happened to Finns. One difference is that it happened to Finns much earlier compared to the Sami, when the Swedes launched a supposed crusade to Finland in the 1150s. 2 more "crusades" would happen in the following century, although only the second one out of the 3 was actually sanctioned by the Pope, and many native uprisings as well.

@UneEtincelleNocturne 3 года назад

Literally relax. Every major religion, Abrahamic or not, has done this. You're not special.

@laurajanis9690 3 года назад

I am Sami. Thru Greenland into Canada then Boston

@mariammontaser7843 3 года назад

it'd be awesome if you did a video on the inuit next :)

@Stetch42 2 года назад

Sami are a protected people here in Sweden. And I for one are very glad they are here ^_^ They are important.

@david82633 2 года назад

Still a lot of racism in the north

@suzbone 2 года назад

The snowshoe and boot combo at 7:04 is genius

@joeshabado1431 3 года назад

Awesome video. I'm just sad you didn't mention just HOW they used the fly agaric mushroom to travel between worlds. The reindeer had to eat them and then they drank the urine. It's poisonous to humans but the reindeer metabolize the main compound and make it just right for humans. It further strengthened the bond between shaman and reindeer

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Santa had to get those flying reindeer from somewhere!

@antifazisbonifaz6964 2 года назад

@@CogitoEdu A very good 😁😁solid point 👌👍👍👍👍🎯🎯

@TheSaltyHyena 2 года назад

This is a myth, and isnt even about sami. It was invented by some dude sitting in europe in the 1700’s, writing about siberian natives he’d never met. In other words, an unfounded myth based on nothing. Its often repeated tho.

@haleybunker1339 11 месяцев назад

They are all beautiful gorgeous animals.

@Hermit_mouse 3 года назад

So fascinating! This channel is always really good, but I think this my favorite episode so far. I would have never even heard of these people. And to think, a culture that stayed in complete harmony with the land and animals, and never over hunted or over foraged!

@hhhhhhhfjjrjrjrjrirh148 Год назад

I'm a saami - Anglo American I wish I was more into my culture mostly I only know my southern culture I grew up in but there's just something about my culture I feel connected to I do love my area and the heat but we had a blizzard here with constant snow for a few weeks it was amazing I wish to visit sapmi one day

@The-Plaguefellow 2 года назад

Frankly, it's amazing how we "civilized" people had committed so many typically "barbaric" actions against "barbaric" peoples... While never realizing the utter hypocrisy of our actions. But alas, such is the Human Way, where one person's 'even hand' is not the same as someone else's.

@eszterhorvath2599 Год назад

Very intressting, so I am from Hungary, our history says, there were two brothers in somewhere in Mongolia, and then they split, one traveled to the north, and became the Sami, the other traveled to Hungary. When the first time a met a Sami, I felt so connected, even I dudnt know, he was a Sami. Because of the colours of the clothes, and the open way we spoke.

@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 3 года назад

I love my Sami brothers and sisters in Norway

@baijayantidebbarma3586 3 года назад

In Tripura🇮🇳 also. In Tripura now Tripuris are less than 30% & illegal Bangladeshi more than 70%. Our Tripuri language is called as Kokborok. Forcing Bengali language on us.

@tamirthedirector 3 года назад

A similar video on the Basques is just waiting to be made by this channel.

@ajaykumar-ge5oj 3 года назад

anyone have the link to the yoilk song used in the video? at 10:50

@donquaviuslaquariusdinglen3066 2 года назад

Thank you for the video! One thing that I have to address though, is the fact that the word "indigenous" gets thrown around a lot and it seems to have lost its meaning. To be honest, I personally don't consider the "indigenousness" to be a very solid factor when it comes to describing peoplegroups. Even for us, despite having been here for a while, we still have an original ancient homeland where we came from and we are not really the orignial inhabitants so it's not like we're originally from here either. It is nice to see us getting more recognition though, especially positive stuff so we don't always have to keep our identities and backgrounds as a secret in the public anymore.

@david82633 2 года назад

Everyone originally came from Africa, so in that case only africans can be indigenous

@themangospy8288 2 года назад

The Sami are considered indigenous by political designation. The traditional meaning of indigenous as original settlers would apply to most Europeans (excluding eastern/Slavs that arrived on the scene relatively late.) It's important not to confuse the cultural/political designation of the term with native settlers.

@TheSaltyHyena 2 года назад

Huui buorre! («Well done» in sami, literally «very good».) 👏 One small detail: Many sami have never relied on reindeer as their main staple food; hunting/fishing and gathering was the way of life for all sami, until the black death. Then a lot of us was recruited to settle empty scandinavian farms, so the state could earn taxes. These sami have never been reindeer herders; the same with those of us living in regions where moose or fishing was the most important food source.

@TBA968 3 года назад

What about you know, the Europeans?

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

Indigenous is a legal catagory. Since the Europeans tend to be in control of European states they don't need the title

@CogitoEdu 3 года назад

@@holywaterbottle3175 We both know that isn't true. The Sami are currently watching their lands being destroyed by corporations that they have no control over. Watch the video I promise it's more interesting to comment about whats in the video than the title.