Mari Boine - Vuolgge Mu Mielde Bassivarrai download mp3

These were Protestants, not Catholics, but Christianity continues to suppress our individuality, just read the paper.

My Grandmother,Augusta was Sami,she passed away before I was born and I never learned her story . . .

Many people talking here about things they have no knowledge about.

Look at Sweden now, its a nation that will be destroyed by their own self-hate. Talk about karma. 

Love It...Mt Meru is the Sacred mountain in the middle of our flat plane Earth..Namaste X

Did the Swedes and Norwegians actually crucify people or is that just symbolic for Christianity being forced on the Sami? Great music! Never let your culture die out.

once all people knew of the connections to earth and sky.....religions came and demonized this....now we are opening our hearts and minds to the living light that flows in from the cosmos.....we are diverse beings in the one force of the universe.....know....remember who you are.....space/time is upon us....

Many children were taken away from their homes and Sami parents were forbidden to teach their children the Sami language, to dance, etc.

That is no alphabet, that is Saami pictographs/symbols on the Noid drum, a drum used by the Noid "schaman" to communicate or travel with the spirits in the Other World. The pictographs can represent many things: His spirit helpers, the different worlds or the other animals or humans of this world. They vary in design and size from region to region depending on if it´s North, Lule or Southern saami territory.

Brilliant just Brilliant!!  I am a proud descendant of the Sami people. This is the story of my ancestors. I would someday love to visit Northern Finland and see first hand the Sami culture.

and then their belts and knives shown as souvenirs.

Children were removed from their families and placed in boarding schools until about the late seventies. There is a big Sami movement happening now, though

I have read that the woodland fins were actually hunted for sport.

It is important to remember what went wrong in the past, but more important is to treat people better in the hear and now.