From the amalgamation of land [flesh] and water [blood] a metamorphose happened, and the one who creates, Sivdnideaddji, took the two elements to make the soil. From here, They shaped our Máttaráhkuid, the Foremothers that are the first ‘landed’ beings, entities that both are of and emerge from the land. In the sky above, Beaiváš looked upon those that were newly formed. Arrayed in the splendour of Her yellow light, a deep and abiding love grew.
Kategori: reflections
«NO ONE CAN REALLY OWN CULTURE»
«To a trained eye, the costumes marketed by said company are of course easily spotted as fake, but its not so much a question of the visuals being authentic or not. To a much larger degree, the problem is that our cultures are still perceived as a free for all, the property of no one and therefore applicable to everyone.»
THIS WOMAN’S LIFE
«The sjiele is a very complex cultural expression. Like many Indigenous communities, a central aspect of the Sámi experience of indigeneity is the philosophy of the gift»
Of “Lappish origin“, and yet “gracious“
«far from being gracious, most contemporaries perceived the Sámi people to be far inferior to the civilized Westerners, and in fact more likely to be related to animals, or at best a race of beings that had once – in the Stone Age – populated the entirety of Europe. «
«Why the Whiteness of Archaeology is a Problem» – some reflections from an Indigenous archaeologist.
Wanting to diversify the fields are all well and good, but why would any of us want to train in disciplines that has made victim blaming into an art?
Liisa-Rávná Finbog 