Assimilation of the Sami – Implementation and Consequences<sup>1</sup>

Minde, Henry

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“…In this period the idea of “Norwegianisation” was a leading ideology based on social-Darwinistic ideas of ethnic Norwegians’ racial superiority, and the importance of nation building with monocultural norms [27–31]. The latter was particularly important in the rebuilding period after WWII [28,29].…”

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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Hämäläinen

Salamonsen

Graff

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Music as a possible health-promoting agent has attained increasing academic and scientific interest over the last decades. Nonetheless, possible connections between indigenous singing traditions and health beyond traditional ceremonial healing practices are still under-researched worldwide.The Sami, the indigenous people living in Northern Fennoscandia, have a distinct ancient vocal music tradition called “yoik” practiced from immemorial times. The Sami share a history of assimilation with many indigenous people. During this period of nearly 400 years, yoik alongside other cultural markers was under hard pressure and even banned at times.Compared to other indigenous people in the Arctic, Sami public health shows few significant unfavourable differences to the majority population. The potential role of yoik as a protective health and resilience factor within the Sami culture is the topic of this review. We suggest a two stage model for the health promoting effects of yoik through i) emotion regulation and stress relief on the level of the individual, and ii) as a socio-cultural resilience factors within the Sami population. This review is to be understood as theory-building review article striving for a scholarly review of the literature.

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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Hämäläinen

Salamonsen

Graff

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…Such open approach led us (as it has other authors) to revolve around and concentrate on the ethnic divide that is upheld between indigenous "Sámi" and "non-Sámi" people. It is this divide that seems to be the most defining categorization, and it is the one on which we will elaborate here (Minde 2003;Gaski 2008;Thuen 2012;Valkonen 2014). Thus, while there exist multiple identities and variations within these categories, our work highlights how the interviewees construct ethnicity in handicrafts through these two denominations.…”

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Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Schilar

Keskitalo

2018

Acta Borealia

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When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are "allowed". They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic norms and boundaries, especially when global tourism enters into the equation. Taking a social constructivist perspective, our study addresses ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our findings are based on fieldwork (35 interviewees) with people of diverse local backgrounds making and selling handicrafts. Methodologically, we avoid preselecting people based on ethnicity, but instead contribute to an understanding of the constitutive processes of ethnicity by looking at how ethnic talk comes into conversations about handicrafts. Our findings demonstrate that the interviewees draw an ethnic divide between "Sámi"/"non-Sámi", while other ethnic-choices move to the background. This divide can be seen to be amplified by tourism. The boundary for who can make a Sámi handicraft or use Sámi symbols remains significant, yet also fluid. The article deepens the understanding of the Sámi/non-Sámi ethnic categorization, here in relation to handicrafts. It also helps unravel the complexities between tourism, ethnicities and handicrafts more broadly. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Sami health needs to contextualised with the historical “Norwegianization” of the Sámi in Norway which targeted children in the form of boarding schools from the 1840s to the 1950s, to fully understand the current impact of environmental and cultural changes in Sámi populations [7]. The ability to internalise Sámi-associated cultural support versus cultural shame has been found to have an impact on Sámi youth health and cultural continuity [8].…”

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“…The ability to internalise Sámi-associated cultural support versus cultural shame has been found to have an impact on Sámi youth health and cultural continuity [8]. In order to countervail this, the Norwegian government passed legislation in the 1950s that makes it impossible to ethnically identify as anything other than Norwegian [7] . Therefore, it is not possible to get population statistics or health statistics on ethnic groups that identify as Sámi in anyway beyond the number of Sámi individuals associated with the Sámi parliament.…”

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Sámi youth health, the role of climate change, and unique health-seeking behaviour

Kowalczewski

Klein

2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The goal of this cross-sectional qualitative study was to assess the impact of climate change on Sámi youth health, health care access, and health-seeking behaviour. Indigenous research methodology served as the basis of the investigation which utilised focus groups of youths and one-on-one interviews of adult community leaders using a semi-structured, open-ended questions. The results of the focus groups and interviews were then analysed to identify trends. We found that Sámi youth mostly associate the implications of climate change to their culture andcultural practices rather than the historical influence the environment had on Sámi health. They also take part in unique health-seeking behaviour by utilising both traditional and Western medicine simultaneously but without interaction due to social and structural factors. Our findings suggest that the health of Sámi teens is not tied to the environment directly, but through cultural activities.

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Assimilation of the Sami – Implementation and Consequences¹

Cited by 170 publications

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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Sámi youth health, the role of climate change, and unique health-seeking behaviour

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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

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