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For hundreds of years,

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Sámi artifacts have been taken
away from Sápmi, the Sámi lands,

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into museums around the world.

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In 2021, The National Museum of Finland
and the Sámi Museum Siida

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agreed on the repatriation of
over two thousand Sámi artefacts to Sápmi.

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This is a globally significant
repatriation.

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-[wind howls]
-[bells chime]

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[Suvi] Ancestors,

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you, who live in the sacred Sáivu
beneath our feet.

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What is this story you want me to tell?

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[man sings a joik] ♪ Le, le, leh, le ♪

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♪ Le, le, leh, le ♪

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♪ From Inari, Utsjoki ♪

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♪ Sevettijärvi, Näätämö ♪

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♪ Saariselkä, Vuotso ♪

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♪ Enontekiö, Paatsjoki ♪

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♪ Le, le, leh, le... ♪

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♪ To The National Museum of Finland ♪

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♪ Le, le, leh, le... ♪

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♪ Grandpa's sledge, cradle,
copper pointer, trough, bowl ♪

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♪ Needle case,
coffee bag, tobacco pouch ♪

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♪ Netting needle, cup, halter,
reindeer coat, case, fishnet weight ♪

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♪ Widow's hat, tether,
loop, bear neckpiece ♪

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♪ To home ♪

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♪ To Sápmi ♪

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♪ They return ♪

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HOMECOMING

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COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION CENTRE
OF THE FINNISH HERITAGE AGENCY

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VANTAA, FINLAND

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[Eero] We're using this as a project room

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for Sámi artefacts, for example,

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most of which we have in this room here.

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And on that shelf,
we have the items for the exhibition.

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Here's a selection for you to examine

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before they are sent back
to the Sámi Museum Siida.

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[Suvi] Ooh...

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[quiet piano music]

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[Suvi] There's love in it.

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It was a shelter for a child.

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I wonder who it belonged to in Angel...

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[Eero] That's the curious thing
about these.

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They make you wonder
about their previous owner.

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I think that's a part of the allure
of museum pieces.

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[Suvi] This is so fascinating.
Oh my, this has both...

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-It has a cross.
-That's a cross.

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But it also has a symbol
related to Sámi spirituality.

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They wanted to combine Christianity
with the old Sámi faith.

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[Eero] Christianity came in, sure enough,

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but all the old traditions and beliefs
continued to coexist with it.

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They still do, in a way.

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Look.

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This is absolutely special.

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[Eero] I can see that handling them
evokes some special joy in you,

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understandably.

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Phew.

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Do you sense any sort of energy
or spirit in these items?

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Do you ever get a feeling like that?

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Yeah, I feel it now when you're here.

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-Okay.
-That plays a part in it.

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Now that I'm experiencing
these items with you,

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it somehow affirms the idea

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that their return will grant them
the life they deserve.

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I
ITEMS

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[piano music]

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[Suvi] Ancestors,

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the items carry with them
our shared joys and sorrows.

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What will happen when they return?

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[ambient music]

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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINLAND
HELSINKI, FINLAND

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[woman] The repatriated items can now
be reintroduced to the Sámi community.

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They bear knowledge

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that only the Sámi community
can read and interpret.

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[woman] I can now bring my children
to the museum,

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and together we can start to decipher
our family history

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without second-hand interpretations.

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[woman] I consider this
the first step on a road

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that leads to the improved social status
of the Sámi people,

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control over our own cultural heritage,

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and fairer representation
in the museums of the world.

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[piano music]

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SÁMI MUSEUM SIIDA
INARI, SÁPMI

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-[truck's back-up alarm]
-[piano music continues]

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Here they are.

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[Heini] I'm not sure... These have been
assigned to Grandmother Naska,

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but are they women's leggings?
Or, does it say...

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I've never seen reindeer fur leggings
worn by a Skolt woman before.

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I think they were worn by a woman.
Here is the raw edge.

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Here is the calf side.

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This is the shin side.

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This part is not very wide.

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But there are two seams here
and this thing here.

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-So, the owner clearly had thick thighs.
-Right.

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Of course, the most important heritage
and, you know...

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...our heirloom, what we've inherited,

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is our craftmanship.

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That's what I've inherited.

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How do you feel seeing
Grandmother Naska's items?

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I don't know, they always feel like...

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...answers.

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Though I don't know the question yet.

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Looking at these items, do you feel that

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Sámi culture is something that thrived

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back in the days of Grandmother Naska?

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Or is Sámi culture,
rather than tied to these items,

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or at least in addition to them,
more in your hands?

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As you're literally making
handicrafts every day.

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It lives through your craft

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as much as in these items,
these museum items.

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True.

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We should keep in mind that...

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Or what I'd like to say is that...

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Looking at these items, we're still here.

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And that's what matters.

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-It's so lovely that you have these.
-Yeah, I think so too.

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[Suvi] Your identity
is not limited to your person.

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It also includes your whole family.

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And it's not only about handicrafts.
You made me wonder what it is for me.

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[Heini] You have your own form
of expression, storytelling.

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I think that it might actually come
from Biennáš-Jovnna.

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Biennáš-Jovnna has even visited
my dreams, telling me how to make films.

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SÁMI MUSEUM SIIDA'S EXHIBITION
UTSJOKI, SÁPMI

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[woman] Who are these women?
Who do you think they are?

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[woman] Eila Tapiola.

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[woman] That's probably
someone from the Laiti family.

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[murmur of voices]

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[man] She's not a Laiti girl.

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[woman] No info on this picture either.

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-[woman] Is that Čalku's wife?
-[man] Ingg' Elle.

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-[woman] Who?
-[woman] Iŋgg' Elle.

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[man] From before the war,
before the evacuation.

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[woman] Before the evacuation, yes.

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[man] The fashion
was different afterwards.

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[woman]
Yes, after they returned from the south.

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[woman] Uhca Ovllá Káre.

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[man] That's Gánddáš-Biret on the left.

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[man] That's my grandmother.
[Suvi] Really? You recognised her?

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Go tell them. You'll get the picture,
since she's family.

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-I'll go and tell them.
-[Suvi] Go tell them.

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You'll get the photo.

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[woman] Let's continue.

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[woman] These items we have with us,
they are region-specific.

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They're from around here.

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[woman] These are from Theodor Schwindt's
collection trip to Lapland in 1902.

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[woman] Those decorations seem strange.

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[woman] There has been a mistake.
They're not from here.

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[woman] These are from 1902.
120-year-old shoes.

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[woman] We've never had
decorations like these in the heels.

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Not to mention the use of a cross pattern.

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We had these foreign cross patterns
only in knitwear, maybe.

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[man] Could they be influences
coming through the Skolt Sámi culture?

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[woman] I suppose that's possible.
People do move around.

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[man] Because these decorations point
more to that direction.

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[woman] They are made from calf legs.

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I'd say the reindeer was butchered
in August or September at the latest.

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The legs have no guard hair yet.

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So it was butchered very early.

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[man] A shame that the collectors had no
interest in the stories, only the items.

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[woman] Indeed.

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[piano music]

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[dog barks in the distance]

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I have to show you
and ask for some advice...

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-[Suvi laughs]
-Whoa! You're using a lot of pins.

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But because this isn't completely even,

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I'll still have to sew some parts.

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Yes, even it out.

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It takes a lot of work,

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but I doubt
it'll take as much as this one.

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I couldn't do that.
I can barely manage River Sámi crafts.

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There's no way I could do
the western or Skolt handicrafts.

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[Heini] Every single stitch
is like a prayer to the child

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and also to our people.

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It connects us
to the past, present, and future.

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This is the horn hat

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that Theodor Schwindt brought

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to the National Museum's collection
in 1902.

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He bought it in Dalvadas.

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And wasn't Golle-Gáddjá
an ancestor of yours, too?

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-No, she isn't.
-Oh, I see.

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[Eeva-Kristiina] As you can see,
the maker was a very skilled artisan.

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But looking at the ears,

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we find something odd.

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It has been sewn rather crudely,
not as beautifully.

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And this is what has allowed

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the analysis of the stitching.

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It's made of the underfur of a bear,
man's hair,

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and grass yarn.

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Imagine, the woman who wore it

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carried the strength of a bear with her.

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This has been on display
in the National Museum for 97 years.

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All that time, it has visualised
what a Sámi woman looks like.

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-This hat?
-Specifically this hat.

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Actually, I have a feeling that...

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...she's here right now.

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Are you picking up a sort of
special feeling right now?

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[vibraphone music]

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[Suvi] Ancestors,

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many form a connection
through these items,

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reaching through generations
all the way to Sáivu.

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But where are you?
You, my own ancestors?

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Nillá Risten, Biennáš-Jovnna,

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Issát Sámmol,
the Rávnnás, Mággás, and Pieras.

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Maybe I'd feel
your presence more clearly

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if I could only find
some of your possessions.

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[Heini shouts] Can we come?

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Can we come?

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-We're coming!
-[Suvi] You saw a bear here?

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[Heini] Yes, on Saturday. A big one.

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[Suvi] Without cubs? Alright.

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Don't bears have some kind of
special significance to the Skolt Sámi?

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[Heini] Yeah, they do. A Skolt man
is to wear a bear's tooth on his belt.

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Everyone used to wear one.

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It prevents back pain,
but maybe it also has symbolism to it.

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Like the strength of a bear.

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[Suvi] Was the story that

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the Skolt Sámi ancestors
were a hybrid of bear and man?

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[Heini] Yeah, there's a story like that.

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-[Suvi] Bear people.
-[Heini] Right.

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I feel slightly conflicted
about this repatriation,

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as all the people around me
seem so happy,

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and I feel somehow that I don't...

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I feel like I'm an outsider
in this process.

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Maybe it's because I don't know
what items are my ancestors'.

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[Eeva-Kristiina] I'm sure some of them
are your ancestors'

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and your family's items,

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and I do know that Biennáš-Jovnna's
Sámi dress is in Gothenburg.

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Huh? Biennáš-Jovnna's
Sámi dress is in Gothenburg?

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-You're kidding me!
-They have his laces also, I think.

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Why would they be in Gothenburg?

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Well, some researcher has come and...

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There we go.
You're finding the connection.

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-Told you so.
-Yeah.

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I'll send you the information.

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[ambient music]

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[Suvi] Ancestors,

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how did being
objects of study feel like?

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They tested you,

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took your possessions,
recorded your odd customs.

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They said
we'd become civilised and fade away.

00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:09.400
What you went through in the past

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still lives on in me.

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[Veli-Pekka] One time I met with
foreign visitors in Oulu,

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and they were very interested
in Sámi culture.

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I was called in to tell them about it.

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They were excited by
a real Sámi coming in.

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I got hot and took off my shirt,

00:24:45.760 --> 00:24:49.880
and I was wearing
a Bart Simpson t-shirt underneath.

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Immediately,

00:24:52.280 --> 00:24:58.520
I saw how their idea of me
as a real Sámi crumbled,

00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:02.960
as did their interest.

00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:09.120
[Suvi] I've often experienced the same,
that you should look a certain way.

00:25:09.280 --> 00:25:11.680
That's why I haven't, for example,

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worn a Sámi dress
outside Sámi areas in years.

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People might comment on my appearance,

00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:22.280
wondering if I look Sámi enough.

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The background for that
is in racial research, I guess.

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[Veli-Pekka] It was founded on the notion

00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:37.080
that each people had
a characteristic mode of existence.

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For example, Sámi people
were considered wild folk,

00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.600
incapable of becoming civilised.

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A real Sámi couldn't eat
with a fork and a knife.

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I suppose some still think like this,

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that modernisation is not
within the rights of indigenous peoples,

00:26:05.520 --> 00:26:08.720
that they should remain a certain way.

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.120
[Suvi] You lead me to Europe,

00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:43.720
to zoos, circuses, research centres,

00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:48.240
places that the Sámi once inhabited.

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:55.920
Do you want me to tell
how you were seen then?

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.800
[birds sing]

00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:03.280
[Clemens in English]
Shows of exoticised humans.

00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:09.000
We know that most shows attracted
a lot of people at the time.

00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:12.720
We know that one of the shows
at the end of the 1890s

00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.400
attracted 90,000 people a day.

00:28:15.560 --> 00:28:20.080
That clearly explains the motivation
for the zoos all over Europe.

00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:24.200
They were not free
in how they would spend their day.

00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:29.880
It was expected that
they show "their natural life".

00:28:30.040 --> 00:28:34.840
It was highly staged.
It followed a certain dramatic setting.

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:40.160
So there would be seal hunting
with the Inuit groups, for example.

00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:45.040
And the Sámi would probably be expected

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:49.560
to deal with the reindeer
that accompanied the group.

00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:56.960
They would build
a hut, a yurt, a tent every day

00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:59.920
in a certain dramatic setting.

00:29:01.080 --> 00:29:03.680
[Suvi] It's like so...

00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:06.920
...unauthentic. [laughs]

00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.440
[Clemens] None of the impresarios
who brought them over

00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:14.520
were aiming for authenticity.

00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.040
It was in order to recreate images,

00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:23.560
which already probably were present
in the minds of the zoo visitors.

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:28.400
It was never meant to destroy stereotypes
but to enhance them.

00:29:28.560 --> 00:29:31.720
Here you can see the audience.

00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:38.440
It's an interesting image,
as it shows how they were stared at.

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:44.560
They are not just sitting in a café.
It looks like part of the show.

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:49.560
Going out to the Kurfürstendamm
and having a coffee there is like,

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:54.040
"come to the zoo
and watch more of these guys".

00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:00.760
[Suvi] I don't know
what to think about it.

00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:05.680
It's weird, because I've been dealing
with questions of representation

00:30:05.840 --> 00:30:08.520
and otherness so much.

00:30:09.120 --> 00:30:12.640
I thought I was done thinking about this

00:30:12.800 --> 00:30:15.200
and done with these feelings.

00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:18.080
But they are so striking for me.

00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:23.200
The times of exoticism and human zoos
are definitely not over.

00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:26.600
This still has a huge modern-day effect.

00:30:26.760 --> 00:30:30.680
This is the way how the Sámi are portrayed

00:30:30.840 --> 00:30:37.240
not only in 1887 and 1952.

00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.560
In many places this is still

00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:46.800
a regular image of Sámi people
in the museums of the world.

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:50.600
And it means that we,
who are living our lives,

00:30:50.760 --> 00:30:55.160
are not seen Sámi enough,
like authentic enough.

00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.720
[ambient music]

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:43.680
-[in English] How is the position
of the head rest? -It's good.

00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:29.000
MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN CULTURES
BERLIN, GERMANY

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:53.920
-[Suvi in English] Okay...
-Here's our Sámi collection.

00:32:54.080 --> 00:32:56.360
These three cupboards.

00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.080
And over there, around the corner,

00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:05.640
we have a special cupboard for Sámi hats.

00:33:05.800 --> 00:33:09.400
-[Suvi] How many items?
-[woman] Altogether 1,600.

00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:12.760
And 1,000 pictures.

00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:17.880
-This dress is from our...
-Area?

00:33:18.040 --> 00:33:22.560
[Suvi] That is exactly my area's hat.

00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:26.440
That's food, right?

00:33:26.600 --> 00:33:29.200
-Dried food.
-Food?

00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.640
-[woman] For a boy.
-I think this is the back.

00:33:36.800 --> 00:33:39.920
Ah, so it's the wrong way around.

00:33:42.040 --> 00:33:44.040
Yeah, you're right.

00:33:44.520 --> 00:33:49.960
-It's said that the colour red
is usual for girls. -Yes.

00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.000
Excuse me...

00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.000
What if we don't...
Maybe I don't need to see this.

00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:25.320
-This is not from my area at all.
-But this is "the original one".

00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:30.760
I know it's the original,
but maybe I'm not the right person to...

00:34:31.160 --> 00:34:35.320
I will ask the cinematographer
one question.

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.040
[in Finnish] Anssi, what do you think?

00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:45.400
This second drum,
which is an original, certainly genuine...

00:34:45.560 --> 00:34:52.400
Should I take a look at it
now that I'm here or not,

00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:56.360
since it's not from my home region?

00:34:56.520 --> 00:35:00.960
It's from the Swedish side of Sápmi,
which is kind of outside my culture,

00:35:01.120 --> 00:35:03.080
so maybe I...

00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:06.600
We were supposed to look at it,

00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:12.280
but I'm not sure if it's something for me
to look at. What do you think?

00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:17.600
[Anssi] If that's how you feel,
I don't think we need to see it. -Right?

00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:19.800
[ambient music]

00:35:43.080 --> 00:35:48.000
II
SACRED DRUMS

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.240
-[music stops]
-[birds sing]

00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:21.640
[Suvi] I think it's interesting that,
for other native peoples,

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:25.000
repatriation refers to sacred artefacts.

00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:28.320
Sacred, like our drums are for us.

00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.400
Or the return of human remains.

00:36:32.560 --> 00:36:36.320
Yet, we are so tied to everyday articles.

00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:43.200
I see it at as a feature of Nordic,
or maybe Sámi, repatriation.

00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:49.000
For us, it's about cups,
Sámi dresses, and laces,

00:36:49.160 --> 00:36:52.520
and not so much about ancestors

00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:57.200
or spiritual heritage.

00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:03.120
Then again, it's good that
we get to practise repatriation

00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:09.640
with things that don't involve
as much trauma or feelings of loss.

00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.920
[ambient music]

00:37:21.240 --> 00:37:26.040
[Suvi] You take me to deeper
and darker waters.

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:31.680
Where our drums play
the music of melancholy.

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:39.760
VARDØ, SÁPMI

00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:02.240
[child yells]

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.280
Uh-oh.

00:38:07.520 --> 00:38:11.560
[wails] Mum, my dress.

00:38:11.720 --> 00:38:14.000
My dress got wet!

00:38:14.520 --> 00:38:17.040
[Suvi] Right on the Elsa dress.

00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:20.800
Try not to spill it...

00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:25.760
There.

00:38:32.560 --> 00:38:35.600
[Suvi] Poala-Ánde, Anders Poulsen.

00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:40.800
Brought before the court in Vadsø

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:43.680
on 9 February 1692.

00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:48.760
Accused of using a rune drum
and practising witchcraft.

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:55.080
Confessed that his mother had taught him
the wisdom of the drum.

00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:59.760
That he had crafted the drum himself.

00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:04.240
That he knew the meaning
of every symbol.

00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:08.960
That he had not cursed
the Heavenly Father or Christianity.

00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.760
Confessed that he had learned
to use the drum

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:18.720
to understand how distant people lived,

00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:22.240
to predict the fortunes of travellers,

00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:29.040
to help people in need,
and do other good deeds.

00:39:34.560 --> 00:39:36.640
STEILNESET MEMORIAL

00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.800
COMMEMORATING 91 PEOPLE
BURNED FOR WITCHCRAFT

00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.360
VARDØ, SÁPMI

00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.680
[Suvi] Killed in his cell with an axe
while awaiting execution.

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:07.640
[fire burns loudly]

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.040
[peaceful music]

00:40:37.200 --> 00:40:41.840
Ancestors,
the drums appear in my dreams.

00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:48.360
How to talk about something
that is hidden from outsiders

00:40:48.520 --> 00:40:51.160
but so very sacred for us?

00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:55.120
How to explain

00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.120
that the drums have allowed us
to navigate through life?

00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:05.640
That they are personal and
shouldn't be handled by just anyone.

00:41:08.680 --> 00:41:12.520
RDM - SÁMI ARTEFACT COLLECTION
KARASJOK, SÁPMI

00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:24.320
[Jelena] When we started our work,
I learned from the elders

00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:27.920
that they talk with the drums.

00:41:28.640 --> 00:41:34.360
They ask for permission to visit
and say thank you afterwards.

00:41:34.520 --> 00:41:38.680
They say: "Thank you
for allowing me to see you."

00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.280
In a way,
it's like talking to a human being.

00:41:44.160 --> 00:41:49.520
[Suvi] I don't know.
Now that I'm working on this story,

00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:53.880
I don't know how it will turn out
or where it will take me.

00:41:54.040 --> 00:41:58.000
Often I'm completely...
It's out of my control.

00:41:58.720 --> 00:42:05.400
Stories, people, and artefacts lead me,
and I simply follow.

00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:11.880
Now I've began to feel
that the ancestors are with me.

00:42:12.040 --> 00:42:17.640
I wonder about the connection
between the drums and ancestors.

00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.280
Do you have any answers for me?

00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:27.840
I wish I had the right answer,

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:32.800
but when it comes to this, I think...

00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:38.400
See, our drums have always served as ties

00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:42.480
between the living and the ancestors.

00:42:42.640 --> 00:42:46.760
The most precious value

00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.040
is to know your family
and where you belong.

00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:54.960
Without that knowledge, you have no roots.

00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:01.080
Society can't function either
if it's unaware of its roots.

00:43:01.240 --> 00:43:04.520
So, the drums' connection to the ancestors

00:43:04.680 --> 00:43:09.120
is our entire people's connection
to our ancestors.

00:43:10.520 --> 00:43:12.520
[monotone music]

00:43:25.080 --> 00:43:28.120
[Suvi] How many drums
even are there, 60?

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.200
[Eeva-Kristiina] I think there are 71.

00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.680
In Rome, Berlin, Leipzig,

00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:40.000
Meiningen, Munich, London.

00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:44.480
You see, it was a very expensive item

00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:48.400
back then in the 1600s.

00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:53.960
Every prince and great lord wanted one

00:43:54.120 --> 00:43:57.440
for their cabinet of curiosities.

00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:02.680
[Suvi] Yes, and only four of them
are in Sámi museums.

00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:12.720
[Jelena] We must reclaim the drums.

00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:17.280
Back to our people,
so we can tell their stories.

00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.840
So, in one way, we can mend the wounds

00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.400
that our people have suffered.

00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:33.360
[Áile] The drums are important
because they represent

00:44:33.520 --> 00:44:37.800
the starting point of
the eradication of our culture.

00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:42.760
You have to remember
that the drums are objects

00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:45.120
that someone has died for.

00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:51.440
An object stolen from someone
because of their faith.

00:44:54.240 --> 00:44:59.560
It's completely different from taking
something mundane, like a shoe.

00:45:17.560 --> 00:45:20.800
[Suvi] Is it rolling?
[Anssi] It's rolling.

00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:25.480
[Suvi] This is specifically
our region's drum,

00:45:25.640 --> 00:45:29.640
and yet, it's only on loan
here in Inari from Stockholm.

00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:33.080
The museum in Stockholm
still decides its fate.

00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:39.440
But I have a very strong feeling

00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:42.640
that I'm allowed to
see the drum and meet it.

00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:47.040
Because it is our region's drum,
and I even dreamed of it.

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.040
Concerning the filming of the drum...

00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:56.440
I'm still not sure
whether we can film it or not.

00:45:56.600 --> 00:46:00.880
That's also up to you, Anssi.

00:46:01.040 --> 00:46:05.080
You have to examine your feelings
about filming the drum.

00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:08.680
[Anssi] I should probably avoid
filming it directly.

00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.920
At least the front of it.

00:46:12.640 --> 00:46:17.280
The drum and its symbols

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:23.320
were used quite differently back then.

00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:29.400
-I don't think it's necessary to show it.
-[Suvi] Okay.

00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:41.000
-Shall we head over there?
Oh, it's here? -Yes, over here.

00:46:41.160 --> 00:46:45.840
-We'll move it from here to there.
-Oh, you move it? I see.

00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.280
It's in here.

00:46:50.560 --> 00:46:52.520
[ambient music]

00:47:49.080 --> 00:47:50.880
[silence]

00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:06.120
[heavy door bangs shut]

00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.320
[Suvi] You were allowed to touch it?

00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:13.200
[Áile] I got to see it for the first time
outside the display case.

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:18.120
I held it in my hands,
and I had a tremendous expectation

00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:22.640
that this experience will change my life.

00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:28.720
And perhaps it did,
for the artefact was truly dead.

00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:33.520
I felt no connection to it.

00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:40.640
It was a great experience to see
that it isn't suffering a great deal,

00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.200
that it has found its own peace
in the state that it's in.

00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.320
[ominous sounds]

00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:04.600
III
ANCESTORS

00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:06.880
[peaceful music]

00:49:12.640 --> 00:49:14.640
[Suvi] Ancestors,

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:20.800
you who are in Sáivu,
and you who have been taken from us.

00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:26.440
How did it feel when outsiders
were digging up our graves?

00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:34.520
They placed the skulls and bones
into black sacks and disappeared.

00:49:35.560 --> 00:49:40.880
Left behind open graves
and unprocessed sorrows.

00:49:46.640 --> 00:49:49.840
[Áile] I'm sure we'll find
the Moor of the Dead.

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.520
[Suvi] Your ancestors are buried there.
Maybe mine, too.

00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:03.720
-Hello!
-Hello, hello!

00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:06.880
[Suvi] I reserved a room for today.

00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.840
-Okay, I found it.
-Yeah.

00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:15.280
Áile and I are looking for
the Moor of the Dead.

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.200
[man] It's over there, past the cabins.

00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.920
But the old burial site
is right next to here.

00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:31.960
-[Suvi] So, the old burial site is
on the other side of the car park? -Yes.

00:50:32.120 --> 00:50:38.520
-And that's where people were
dug up for research? -Yes.

00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:41.400
[ambient music]

00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:50.760
[Suvi] Would this land be different

00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:55.120
if our people had been allowed
to remain in their graves?

00:50:58.720 --> 00:51:02.680
Ancestors, did you know then

00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:06.440
that graves were being disturbed
all over Sápmi

00:51:06.600 --> 00:51:10.920
for centuries in the name of research?

00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:34.040
-[Áile] That could be one.
-[Suvi] And look, there's one.

00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:36.800
-[Áile] Here's one, too.
-[Suvi] A grave.

00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:41.240
-[Áile] And over there.
-[Suvi] This one has clearly been dug up.

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:45.200
[Áile] That could be one,
or it could be two, side by side.

00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:48.920
-[Áile] Also back there...
-[Suvi] There's one, too.

00:51:49.080 --> 00:51:53.240
-[Suvi] And here. How horrible.
-[Áile] Several over there.

00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:56.800
Okay, this is very clear.

00:51:58.040 --> 00:52:00.480
There, and also here.

00:52:05.520 --> 00:52:09.840
Do you know what they were looking for?
Only adults?

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.760
I doubt they knew much about
the remnants they found back then.

00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:17.520
Although these graves were fairly new

00:52:17.680 --> 00:52:20.080
when they were excavated.

00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:25.280
I don't think there were any markers,
or anything like that.

00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:28.680
Most likely,
they opened the graves randomly

00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.160
and only then saw what they had found.

00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:38.840
[Suvi] And now they'll be buried in Siida?
[Áile] Possibly, yes.

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:43.280
The information is so scattered
that they can't be entirely sure

00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.240
whether the remains are exactly from here.

00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:51.680
[Suvi] It's crazy to think that,
suddenly, this kind of...

00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:55.720
-[Áile] Whoa, I stepped in one.
-[Suvi] ...graveyard was found.

00:52:57.080 --> 00:53:00.720
-[Áile] Quite a sad place.
-[Suvi] You said it.

00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:01.240
[oppressive music]

00:55:25.520 --> 00:55:27.440
[silence]

00:55:29.240 --> 00:55:32.720
[Juhan]
It's been clear to me since childhood.

00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.720
Whenever we played or visited there,

00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:40.720
my mother, my uncle, and the elders
would always bark at us,

00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:44.040
telling us not to jump around.

00:55:44.200 --> 00:55:47.400
Because our ancestors are resting there.

00:55:48.200 --> 00:55:51.920
[Suvi] Why were the skulls taken?
Any information on that?

00:55:52.080 --> 00:55:57.680
[Juhan] As I understand it, they were
taken to Stockholm or somewhere,

00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:02.160
where people studied
whether we were men or monkeys.

00:56:05.040 --> 00:56:09.320
I've been thinking a lot
about what it meant.

00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:13.240
Have you heard about the time
when the people came,

00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:18.200
the ones who converted us
to Christianity, priests and so on,

00:56:18.360 --> 00:56:24.320
how it was easy for the Sámi people
to accept new gods, or a new God?

00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:28.120
Accepting God was not the difficult part.

00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:32.880
But it was difficult to abandon
the connection to the ancestors.

00:56:33.040 --> 00:56:39.480
The priests saw
communication with spirits as sinful.

00:56:39.640 --> 00:56:43.680
I've often thought about how Christianity

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and traditional spiritual practices
go hand in hand here.

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Quite firmly, at least in my own life.

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My mother was rather special

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in that she had dreams
and often talked about them.

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I've had these experiences
since my childhood.

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I'm sure many people have,
but they don't dare talk about it.

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Many fear that they will be discriminated

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and mocked because of that.

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[Suvi] Ancestors, can you hear me?

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As you probably know,

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some of our people's skulls
have been returned to Siida.

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Soon, they will be returned
to the earth.

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But how can we bury the grief and fear?

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How can we forgive?

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[Áile] I've been their neighbour
for a long time.

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I used to work for a long time
in the room next to them.

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They were next to my office.

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Why were there skulls in the other room?
What was that about?

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When I started working in Siida,
I was just told:

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"Here's a room with old Sámi skulls."

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That they were
the property of Helsinki University,

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and study permits for them were granted
by Siida and the Sámi Parliament.

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We wouldn't be admitting
study permits for them,

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and looking after them was
one of my responsibilities.

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I had no idea you had
such a strong connection to them.

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Yeah, and I've also felt deep guilt

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over my role in enabling this.

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Why didn't I say that it wasn't right?

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Why wasn't I the one to tell everyone

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that I don't approve of them being there?

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So, I've played a part in it and,
of course, that is my cross to bear.

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That's my mistake.

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But I also try to be merciful to myself.

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I didn't have the strength,
the knowledge, the resources,

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nor the status to correct it.

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Still, this is what
I've been apologising for,

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for not being able,
for not having the strength.

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I'm thankful
you were the one with the skulls.

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Did you ever go and comfort the ancestors?

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Yeah, I did.

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It's true, I did,
but I also got strength from them.

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When I was going through rough times,

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the awareness that they were there...

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It is wrong to say that they comforted me,

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or that it was good for me
that they were there, but I felt like...

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Yes, they were my ancestors.

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It's difficult to say who comforted whom,

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but somehow the feeling
that we were together in that situation

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gave me strength.

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[singing]

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[woman] The events of those days
wounded the Sámi people,

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and the pain still lingers.

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We hope and pray

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that this day would, for its small part,

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serve to heal those wounds
and ease the pain.

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[priest] The excavation of
deceased Sámi folk from their graves

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for research purposes

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reflected the values and attitudes
of the scientific community at the time,

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as well as society at large,
and the Church.

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I would like to
unequivocally express regret

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over the fact that the Church allowed

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the scientific community
to open the graves.

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[singing] ♪ ...and be your protector ♪

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♪ Let Him wash your tears away ♪

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♪ And bring joy to your heart ♪

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♪ May He carry your sorrows ♪

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♪ And give you what you need ♪

01:03:59.040 --> 01:04:01.680
ON 8 AUGUST 2022,

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68 DECEASED SÁMI PEOPLE
WERE REBURIED HERE.

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[peaceful music]

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SÁMI MUSEUM SIIDA'S
NEW EXHIBITION SITE, INARI

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[Suvi] You, old artefacts, will be
the centrepiece of an exhibition.

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Could you have believed

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that our heritage is finally
on display to and for us?

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[Heini] I'd say they are not ours.
Maybe they were sewn for someone else.

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Considering the size.

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Yeah...
What do you mean, for someone else?

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For like a Finn?
As a present or something.

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GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN

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[Suvi] Biennáš-Jovnna.
My great grandfather.

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You, who visited my dreams,
telling me how to make movies.

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You must be laughing in Sáivu
at my scrambling, as I travel abroad

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only to see your children's old things.

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[in English] Oh my god, they're cute.

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Yes, like a small, small child.

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A baby girl.

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[Suvi] So others can see, too.

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Anssi, what do you think?

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What comes to mind?

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[Anssi] Our children could've worn these
when they were small.

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[Suvi] Yeah.

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Biennáš-Jovnna is here.

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He's here. With us.

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[piano music]

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[man laughing and speaking indistinctly]

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[woman] One minute to go.

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I guess we'll go first.

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-Welcome.
-Thank you.

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-[applause]
-[piano music continues]

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SÁMI MUSEUM SIIDA'S
NEW EXHIBITION OPENING

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INARI, SÁPMI

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The design is not from around here.

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[woman] I don't know of any other items
my ancestors made.

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That's a lot more than many others have.

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[Suvi] Ancestors, are you here?

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Is this the story you wanted me to tell?

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Museums around the world still hold onto
about 50,000 Sámi artefacts.

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Most of the Sámi drums were destroyed
in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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71 drums remain, of which only four
are kept by Sámi museums.

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Thousands of Sámi ancestors still lie
in research institutions around the world.

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The skeletons and skulls
were sought-after merchandise,

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in the era of racial research,
for example,

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when scientists strove to prove
that the Sámi were a lesser race.

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Translation:
Arttu Pasanen & Aleksi Mörttinen

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Captions: Maarit Tulkki
Saga Vera