{"id":1547,"date":"2013-02-06T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2013-02-06T23:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:15:51","slug":"happy-sami-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/happy-sami-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Sami Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By Jeltz [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASami_flag.svg\" aria-label=\"256px Sami Flag.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\"  alt=\"Sami flag\" width=\"256\" height=\"190\" \/ src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1b\/Sami_flag.svg\/256px-Sami_flag.svg.png\"><\/a><strong>Gratulerer med dagen!<\/strong>\u00a0(Congratulations [with the day]!) Today is\u00a0<strong>samefolkets dag<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the day of the Sami people. Did you know Norway had an indigenous minority?<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe feel like Native Americans,\u201d two Sami girls told a Norwegian reporter. Like many Native Americans,\u00a0<strong>samene<\/strong>\u00a0(the Sami) are fully integrated in the mainstream society. They go\u00a0<strong>i barnehage<\/strong>\u00a0(to kindergarten),\u00a0<strong>p\u00e5 skole<\/strong>\u00a0(to school) and work. But some keep ancient Sami\u00a0<strong>tradisjoner<\/strong>\u00a0alive and many still speak\u00a0<strong>samisk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Some important bits of Sami culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>samisk<\/strong>. Actually, there are several Sami languages. They\u2019re spoken by 40-50.000 persons across Northern Scandinavia. The largest is\u00a0<strong>nordsamisk<\/strong>\u00a0(Northern Sami). Sami languages are distantly related to Finnish.\u00a0<strong>Nordsamisk<\/strong>\u00a0has some exotic\u00a0<strong>bokstaver<\/strong>\u00a0(letters), as in\u00a0<em>Gos mun oa\u017e\u017eun juhkan\u010d\u00e1zi?<\/em>\u00a0(Where can I get drinking water?) Pretty different from Norwegian, don\u2019t you think? \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>kofte<\/strong>. This colourful\u00a0<strong>drakt<\/strong>\u00a0(dress, costume) is a powerful symbol of Sami identity. Sami people wear their\u00a0<strong>kofter<\/strong>\u00a0at important events, like\u00a0<strong>17. mai<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the day of the Norwegian constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>joik<\/strong>\u00a0[yoyk]. The traditional Sami\u00a0<strong>joik<\/strong>\u00a0sounds a bit like yodeling or Native American spiritual songs. A skilled\u00a0<strong>joiker<\/strong>\u00a0can almost make her listeners fall into a trance. The corresponding verb is\u00a0<strong>\u00e5 joike<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Sami were the original inhabitants of the Scandinavian peninsula. In\u00a0<strong>vikingtida<\/strong>\u00a0(the Viking Age) there were still a few Sami hanging around in Southern Norway, but today most Sami live in\u00a0<strong>Nordnorge<\/strong>. There are also Sami in Northern parts of Sweden and Finland, and on the Russian Kola peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a\u00a0<strong>friluftsmenneske<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201doutdoor kind of person\u201d), you\u2019ve perhaps slept in a\u00a0<strong>lavvo<\/strong>. This huge tent \u2013 which looks a bit like a tepee \u2013 was invented by the Sami. Traditionally, the Sami moved from place to place herding\u00a0<strong>reinsdyr<\/strong>\u00a0(reindeer). Only a small number of Sami still cling to this lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of racism and discrimination toward Sami people. Sami children were punished if their\u00a0<strong>l\u00e6rer<\/strong>\u00a0(teacher) caught them speaking their own language, and Sami adults were treated like idiots. For that reason, the historical name \u201dLapps\u201d is considered offensive by many Sami and should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, conditions have improved considerably for the Sami. There is a\u00a0<strong>sameting<\/strong>\u00a0or Sami parliament, and Sami languages have become officialized and are taught at schools in Karasjok, Kautokeino and other places in Northern Norway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S\u00c1MI GRAND PRIX 2011 | Yoik Competition: The Winner\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tz6CPs6geoo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the 2011 Sami Grand Prix,\u00a0Jan Ole Hermansen, joiks in a <strong>kofte<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"256\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2013\/02\/256px-Sami_flag.svg_.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Gratulerer med dagen!\u00a0(Congratulations [with the day]!) Today is\u00a0samefolkets dag\u00a0\u2013 the day of the Sami people. Did you know Norway had an indigenous minority? \u201dWe feel like Native Americans,\u201d two Sami girls told a Norwegian reporter. Like many Native Americans,\u00a0samene\u00a0(the Sami) are fully integrated in the mainstream society. They go\u00a0i barnehage\u00a0(to kindergarten),\u00a0p\u00e5 skole\u00a0(to school) and work&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/happy-sami-day\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[913],"tags":[191730,11852,274070,274068,274071,3388,274069],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traditions","tag-discrimination","tag-joik","tag-kofte","tag-samer","tag-sametinget","tag-sami","tag-samisk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}