Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom

I do this in school too to teach the kids law so this is to catch catch the reindeer and we used to practice like this and this is youth every year all over the northern part of Sweden we are the First Nation people of Sweden no way kolja insular Island over here and Finland and there are some people in Alaska and in Scotland from the reindeer you could get everything these you can made things of look at this it's reindeer it's very hard and you can use it for many many years this is reindeer skin see they're everywhere snow pieces and this is Ranger skin you can make very strong ropes this is a home it's called forest Sami cottage you see it's like a cottage in the bottom but not the whole so this is not traditional oh yes oh yes it is at least 400 years today the most reindeer owners are what you call mountain Sami but in the middle of the country has been forest Sami and this is a forest Sami hope it's more like a cottage in seventeen eighteen nineteen hundreds still were so many people and they were not allowed to use the language and their own traditions and they were not allowed to have reindeers not allowed to this is a holy white ring who made the earth and here this is what the Swedish state is building the Sam young wins and the Swedish winds are blowing in opposite directions there is a lot of history and politics about Swedish state what the state has done and decided about us and our flag the blue is the heaven on the lakes and the red is the fire and the red half circle is the Sun and that's why we know of fighting so hard to get the language back and our own traditions and our Sami thinking nature is everything for us because we think that we belong to mother earth it is not as Western European thinking that the earth belong to us to the human beings we think that we belong to the earth like the animals and the plants and everything this is a very old and needing repairing a very old winter cottage here you have insulation insulation yes here you have wood here inside and then you have this one to keep the water out but then you have this too and you take that all out there it's taken here somewhere you just take it off yeah and you put it there yes so it's growing well yes that's okay yes that's okay so this is very this is good insulation with it oh yes it is see see what it is it's torn what's the word for that desaad out in the week the where it's wet what the Buddha marsh yes it can be thick like this so that's the type you want to get detect it's wet in the bog in the marsh yes and you dry it up and you built with it and then you put some things over it to keep them so they won't hell down see I see that so these are just okay there's what is protection these are just protection for this sir it doesn't wash away no no no because of the wood protection because of the plants because I'm unbe 'the that right put the dirt on the outside doesn't wash away oh yes it's living is living yeah and sleeping so why should it disappear my school kids they said ah Sami people has been knowing all the time what the science says today that everything is living that is alive in everything there are no nails no screws just wood this one is hold up by this one this one lays on this and this so they keep each other together and then up there there and they and they keep together and it has this it's not coming right up here it's because that would make the sides weak it's going out because if these were coming right right up here yeah then you had this one to be weak but now you have to give the strong to the whole house if you live in it you live branches pieces or branches so you can hang up things you shoes or your wet socks and I'm here you can see the real the real table round here I think least seven eight persons could sleep here there is room my husband he is one of ten kids in a family and he is born in a place of this here you keep reindeer skins clothes food things you need some other time storage yes how do you lose your tree trunks this your this your tree trunk yes you see of course it is of course it is it's trees and you try to find a place with trees are living like this you just cut them no but if you can't find that you cut some other way and take them here but at least one has grown here because it makes it it couldn't fold out this is the summer one we use nature materials to almost everything see stone wood and this look at this this is to keep the rain out the water the bark yes and it should be turned in this way and it's all over under these no water can come in and you should leave your shoes here and the legs it should be there and nowhere else see all there the floor is its soil and sand and this is perch and you should take those who have no leaves because if you use lease it smells so good but you get bugs mole yeah you have to learn how to do this you have to do that this late there you have something you want sleep well long and you lay these over so so they are soft they get up and you go all over the floor with that you would fall along here put your foot in all these if you hadn't played this over see and now I think that we have taken off our shoes because you are not allowed to walk here on the sofa or on your sleeping bed see fire is if I was going or you make fire when you wake up in winter you keep the fire going all night audio we will be value very cold just keep them up a little and see cook here yes you cook all your food here you bake your bread you do everything this is a home and you have your bed clothing around the walls skins yeah reindeer skins oh I never told you because it's so natural for me when it's night you just roll them out and sleep here my husband still says that I don't need that wonderful bed we have at home he gave me just a reindeer skin I can sleep anywhere and when you go to bed and it's cold outside you wait until it's burn the fire is small and you close this almost and then you have to lay down asleep because the smoke is coming now so Sara I'm a little scared that people has come too far for nature nowadays see if I have some some water here they don't know how to survive in nature yes this is the kitchen the kitchen table and all those things you have in the kitchen mm-hmm see I can put it there and then I'll take these this is reindeer skin of course I got this when I was 17 and it's still working it is for coffee and you make those for everything sugar and coffee and things you have on your earrings or anything you make them uh or skin reindeer skin and now I'm going to make some coffee for us it's simple but effective but it's what you need yeah this is our table I'm here well you have your food yes yes that's the Panther and this reindeer meat this has been smoked you have put salt on it and then you hang it up you could put it up there in this book it's smoked and then bright you dry it in the air after smoking so all things smoking drying you can have it in summer heat and you can eat it and you don't need everything refrigerator and you know that reindeer fat is better than everything I mean because they live outside they are free to go anywhere where you get the meat now do you buy it no my husband has Rangers say so it's boiling sea it's coming how did you learn how to do this how did you learn all this my parents that's what we did every Sunday we went outside year-round went on some that's our holiday that's our Sunday to go out in forests on the mountain make a fire boiling coffee and eat our bread and butter belts out I'm here you have the rain gear again pick four and we used silver for these and here you have wood and horn and bring your skill and usually people make these insults it's my husband's cousin has done this so you can see the pattern is northern sami pattern in south we have no pictures just patterns I'm here these are the in I don't remember the intestine yes and everything is right here feel this is everything is light and soft you can use it or a pillow now we can see if see here you have the coffee I'm little scared to think that people they have forgotten I never learned how to behave and survive in nature and it scares me because I think that someday all this maybe will crush and what will people do I've done these myself reindeer skin see that hair is that way and this way because when you walk you want for which or which see this is breaks you continue there's so many of the traditional yes oh yes with you we try to go on with everything but it's so very difficult you have to walk around in tourists to find wreath with the special bending and then you take off the bark here and then you cut it down and it takes maybe two years and to dry it up and there this construction has been for maybe thousands of years people still live in summer you live in nothing up in the mountains if you go fishing and when you go moose hunting you have one at the place where you used to be you have your house guys it's nice isn't it cozy it's a fun one it was quite cold here last night was comfortable it doesn't lose a lot of thermal mass since it doesn't have openings does half a door but other than that you would get in you would have a stove so you would have decent fast way to warm your house and now we feel that people they are talking about nature and things like that and they don't know our traditions could you live there but in some way there are connections this Western civilization we call it they build things and then go and leave it and it's awfully lots of left overs when this is old in several hundred years it just fell down slowly into the middle and the plants are coming and everything and you can't find it you have not disturbed the nature everything goes back to nature everything goes back do you feel like this is enough what you have here for a home it's not really grown up in this I mean just feel like enough to you I'm sort of in two words because we had those four calls and some a very little farm a poor people in some way and rich people in another way and I went to town and I studied and I'm painting righty Sarika she is the goddess of home fire heating food I work in school and I'm teaching the language the salmon language this is South Sami welcomer and this is no famiiy Marco shot me I know the traditional world to class yeah this one is 50 years old I feel very rich because I know the old tradition and I am in this Western word you I feel like I'm richer than many other people and when you leave this place you don't stand up normally you go like this and here you take your shoes and stand up so I live in a very big world but in my heart I'm a Sami people Sami and this is coffee the lost we gave it to Soraka thank you for coffee you

Channel: Kirsten Dirksen

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Keywords: sami, sami shelter, goahti, lavvu, indigenous people, indigenous shelter, arctic, arctic circle, mountain hut, tiny home, small space, small home, tiny house, home size, simple living, simplicity, reindeer, reindeer meat, survival, survival skills, wilderness skills, wilderness survival, offgrid, native swedish, sapmi, sweden, sod, sod construction, wood construction, Gunnel Heligfjell, 1st nation people, first nation, extreme weather

Id: VoXbDhDEgdg

Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2015