Traditional Saami Songs and the immense land

[workatthefarm]

Sami people are NOT related to Finnish people. They are both Finno-Ugric but Finns are not related to them.

[ndrussiangerman1]

My great, great grandmother was a full-blood Sami from Sweden. She was darker and shorter in stature. This genetic marker passed to my mother which is why people think she's Japanese. Also my brother looks like Keanu Reeves or Dean Cain. I look more Dinaric/Nordic like people from central Europe. Yet, it would be interesting to see what any offspring would look like if I married a Sami woman.

[mandoplusguitar]

@ndrussiangerman1 My Grandmother was full-blood Sami from the Southern Sami group in Sweden, i love my heritage and how rich it is. really neat to see what my ancestors heart song was, and that people are willing to share that with us.

[soxmonki]

And why couldn't we be related to them? The Bering str8t theory ... who knows ... maybe it was always there ... we went there - you came here ... and vice-versa - so the Asian theory populating Native America ... baloney -- I think this concept is lost when you have peeps like this in Nordic countries ... I personally think we interacted years and years ago

[tuomaankuoma1]

Vain perkelettäkö kaikki englanniksi jauhavat? Hyvä oli. Jo vain.

[ferusaccalia]

Beautiful :)

[RaisingTurul]

What should i say... i´m Hungarian. looking Nordic (blond hair, blue eye) but small.

But I feel common roots with Asiatic tribes.

Anyway i like Finnish music. Your language sounds so beautiful ;))

Greetings from Hungary!

[mthalion]

@RaisingTurul Hungarians and Finns are actually from the same line of descent, the UrgoFinnic one :) So you are kind of connected :)

[jahsay69]

There is encrypted wisdom in these songs that resonate with how you do certain things in your life. It's no new age stuff but a very old tradition. Much of it seems to be lost or forgotten for the most of us. The saying "natives have a deep connection to earth" doesn't come out of nowhere, but it's not what you may think... I think they were just wise in a different way. You see it in a different way when you look at from a different world view. Good joikhu.

[ovenofcreation]

when the earth speaks with a voice

this is it

[MrScothern1]

NICE

[02sweden]

Native people may still bear the costume, color and songs of a similar past from central asia (somewhere about Xinjiang-region China. (The birth place of Europe and East asia) and north/South Amerika, passing the Berings sund). Nice, if the colour and culture of those days have these living traces left, might be about 20 000 years old or older?

[kozmon0t]

@02sweden it's not from all one place. Genes flow but that doesn't mean the populations migrate with them.

Pre-civilized cultures weren't isolated at all. The Neolithic bear cult is preserved in modern cultures from Sapmi to Siberia. Not because they all came from the same place, but because the bear cult really covered that much area.

[deadxkorps]

He's handsome. Is he single? (Great singing, too).

[666Nauthiz777]

Äntligen vanlig jojk och inte en massa jävla indianpopliknande mög. Keep it real, dammit.

[Managuense1]

Very interesting! Although these guys look Scandinavian (they must have just a tiny pinch of Sami blood) their music sounds native American, which as you know are also mongoloid people! Even Sami tents look like Indian tepees which proves that the Sami must have come from Siberia. By the way, pictures of Samis in the early XX century (before assimilation) show that they used to look more Asian than nowadays! Just amazing!

[SecretQT1]

@Managuense1 Their "Y chromosome" is from Siberia region, which means the Sami has Asiatic blood through their paternal side.

[MrScothern1]

related to inuits ,red indian it sounds like

[PuppyZwolle]

Where is the world coming to that this has to be done at a university. But better this way than not at all right?

[Freakfolker]

@PuppyZwolle - The University is the perfect place for this! As an institution of Learning and Knowledge, this could be discussed in Musicology, Anthopology, Music History, Scandinavian Studies, Traditional Folk Music studies.... you name it! You know, learning, knowledge, heritage! Just because it's not Jazz or Classical, doesn't mean that other forms of music aren't covered in Music Programs. Also places like Smithsonian collect folk pieces from around the world.

[PuppyZwolle]

@Freakfolker Agreed. Point taken. But it reminds me of the Dodo. It almost seems like it's the ONLY place where it's heard. THAT was what made me a bit sad.

[DavidOdden]

@PuppyZwolle Try visiting Guouvdageaidnu for Easter. It's not the only place.

[kennedyjames007]

sorry about double post

[kennedyjames007]

As you go further north the people are fewer and more spread out. While it is difficult to travel long distances in these regions the people tend to be very good at at. Where weather is hostile people need to be less so. While there may have been hostilities, and litle need to trade, there would still be sharing of culture. Given thousands of years, stuff gets around, even say from the Sami to the Mikmaq and the now extinct Beothuk. Similar plants, animals, materials also. Mikmaq much like Sami.

[kennedyjames007]

As you go further north the people are fewer and more spread out. While it is difficult to travel long distances in these regions the people tend to be very good at at. Where weather is hostile people need to be less so. While there may have been hostilities, and litle need to trade, there would still be sharing of culture. Given thousands of years, stuff gets around, even say from the Sami to the Mikmaq and the now extinct Beothuk. Similar plants, animals, materials also. Mikmaq much like Sami.

[daemonaeon]

Yeah, there is a strong physical resemblance too. If you darken the skin of the singer and dye his hair black, he could easily pass as a native American. Just look at his fatures. It is amazing how these peoples are so similar in so many aspects!

[Innle]

was this guy in kautokeino opproret as an extra?

[acerb45666555]

wow! its almost like Mohawk singing!! same gutteral vocals, very powerful.

[canine2]

I agree with you...it's amazing, some of the music, clothing, and physical chacteristics of these people are so similar to native American, yet the scientists say there is no genetic link between Laplanders and Native Americans. Not sure if I believe them.

I mean, if Asians could come to N.A. by ice bridges and the Bering Strait, then why not from the other side? I'm not saying they did, just a theory...

[Koyzo11]

I heard they're closely related to Finnish ppl as well

[kiku19]

@Koyzo11  Genetically they are actually closest to estonians. Finns are group byself.

[Managuense1]

@kiku19 Well, chances are Samis, Finns, and Estonians being so close to each other have a common origin but after centuries of admixing with Germanic people have lost most of their original Asian look. But there are too many clues like language, music, architecture, instruments, traditions, and a subtle physical appearance that telltale about an Asian past.

[Sulimaaren]

No they are not related to native americans, but if you look at native peoples around the world you will find striking similarities in clothing, songs and chants. Dont know why, but that's how it is.

[paleoncologist]

@Sulimaaren maybe culture is subject to a natural selection-like pressure - if it looks the same, it's probably there for the same reason. if people have similar cultures, it's because they have similar needs and culturally converge to cope with them. or something. wild speculation.

[nightfireivey]

@Sulimaaren maybe before native americans came from the original natives from siberia and crossed the berling bridge across to america.

[TheEmsann]

@Sulimaaren

Yes they're.

Sami is related to the real americans so called indians american indians.

They're song seems very like and they're look on the face.

They're face is very simmular to american indians.

And indians and samis have the same backround they found out and that aint so weird if you look.

[anglinthemtns]

@Sulimaaren Both came from Siberia but changed over time depending on groups they encountered. We have 3 different gene pools among Native Americans- those who came from Siberia through Alaska down the West Coast (these people are direct from Siberia), those who came from E. Polynesia & down to S. America (Easter Island) then North & others who came from stars... they have all mixed but the Indian people of Central America are the same as the SW Indians of US- Zuni, Yaqi, Pima, etc...

[destinyislandgirl]

Im Saami and the Saami acually have some connections (distant but still there) to the Inuit people of Canada

[orinemma]

It reminds me of Native American singing.

[specopps117]

Im guessing the Saami are one of the Native tribes up their?

sorry for my lack of knowlegde bu i live in Texas a few hunred miles from the US-Canadian border...

[orinemma]

They are native to Scandanavia. The used to be called Lapplanders, but that term carries negative conotations, like "Eskimo".

[specopps117]

So hey are like Innuits of Europe?

(Innuit: Native Icemen of Canada)

[orinemma]

Yes, except they are different racial stock. Some of them herd reindeer. It is where our idea of Santa and his sleigh pulled by reindeer comes from.

[specopps117]

Interesting.

So thats where that came from lol!

[Qnsilta]

sorry, they're from the Scandinavia, Europe, not USA :D

[specopps117]

I knew that i didnt put enough detail in my comment allow me to reiterate :

I'm guessing the Saami are a native tribe in Scandinavia as the Inuit are of Canada?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge but the only thing i know of ice people is that they have it rough...

(i used to live in Anchorage and it was) (cooooolllldddd....)

[PaulyPlz]

The northernmost area of Texas is about 1300 miles from the US-Canadian border, not a few hundred... but anyway. The Saami people inhabit Sápmi, which covers areas of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia.

[TackyTakazawa]

Oh my god noisy.

[xxx777x99y]

Trottel!

[rakastaus]

se on kaunis!

[Flycka]

Beautiful!

[MBranen]

Beautiful. Thankyou from Canada.

[valkonrad]

Brilliant - dead cool and what a strong and characterful voice! Great

[liquidshare]

Respect

[samishjojk]

Bra jojk! Mycket fin. :)

[revolverjohn]

Thankyou for the comment (even if I cannot understand, I can sort of figure out what ou mean).

I thought he had an excellent voice and this tune is really deep.