It's February 6th on Thursday, the national day of my people, so I thought I'd share some info. Because if one things is clear in the aftermath of Frozen II, is that you all know nothing about Sámi people and culture.
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Do me a favour, drop lappland from your vocabulary, from now on use Sápmi, ok?pic.twitter.com/np94hbvOwP
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Lapp is a derogatory word used by Scandinavian colonisers about the Sámi people. It means something like 'simpleton' in English. For a long time Scandinavians belived Sami people to be retarded, and they 'proved' this by studying their head shapes (rounder in shape).pic.twitter.com/bNcoM3mW0D
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If you got registered by the government as a 'lapp' you were not allowed to own or buy land. My family suffered from these laws, as the government made it harder and harder to be nomads/cross borders, but they could not buy a farm either.
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In Norway laws were passed prohibiting schooling in the Sami language, Sami history and Sami culture. Moreover, Sami children were taken from their parents and sent to mandatory boarding schools in other parts of the Norway.
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As late as the 1950s, these laws and policies were justified by stating that Sami people were mentally handicapped: 'In the folk consensus from 1950, Samis were classified in the same category as the “mentally disabled” and “insane”.'
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Since sami could not own land, many Sami families adopted a Norwegian last name, leading to the disappearance of many original Sami names. If they looked Norwegian, dressed Norwegian, spoke Norwegian etc, they could eventually be registered as Norwegian and gain basic rights.
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If a 'lapp' registered person married a Norwegian registered person, their children would be registered as 'b' for blanding, meaning mixed. If a 'mixed' person married a Norwegian registered person, they could buy land.
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One ingenious great great grandparent og mine, decided to give her chidren fancy Norwegian/Germanic lasts names as first names. She gave her chidren the names 'Ole Aschenberg', 'Dankert Heiberg' and 'Adolf Meyer' as first names.
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They could then drop their real last name and parented that their full name was Ole Aschenberg with Aschenberg as the last name etc.
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In this way, it was that Dankert Heiberg, was able to pretend to be of last name Heiberg, and buy an abandoned farm in 1910. He then took the last name Sandvik after the family that had previously owned the farm for some 200 years. And so that's my last name.
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At this point they couldn't have probably stopped giving last names as first names to their children. They have made it. Have a small farm in the Arctic, speak Norwegian etc. But no, they decide to name their son Hagen. Two of the richest men in Norway have the last name Hagen.
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It's such a ridiculous name (sorry grandpa). It is like, they were trying so hard to fit in that they completely failed. Doesn't help that Hagen literally means 'the garden'. The garden sandy bay. My grandpa. Anyways he chose norse names for his children.
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But my mom having the name of a viking goddess did not prevent her from being bullied all through school for being Sami. To the kids in her home county there was no misting her looks, she looked (still looks) 100% Sami.
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From the government programme of Norwegianization the people of Norway had learnt that Samis were stupid, lazy, cheats, drunks etc etc Even Sami people started believing it, and denying to themself that they were Sami.
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