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- From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
- Subject: Re: What do the "Lapps" call themselves?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.020141.25330@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
- References: <1993Jan19.100929.1@sara.cc.utu.fi>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:01:41 GMT
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- This article contains information on a U.S. publication about Sami life and
- culture, as well as a bibliography.
-
-
- In alt.native <1993Jan19.100929.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> riilai@sara.cc.utu.fi writes:
-
- > I don't know about the other countries but in Finland the Lapps call
- > themselves samis (in Finnish actually it is saami (the language) and
- > saamelaiset (the people)) and nowadays it is customary for other Finnish
- > people to call them Samis too. The name Lapps is used too but not as much
- > it was used earlier, and it is definetly not proper to use it in official
- > or public matters.
- >
- > Riitta
-
-
- The following is from a friend in the U.S. who has been speaking the
- Norwegian language all her life (both of her parents being from Norway):
-
- | Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 19:13:39 EST
- |
- | On the subject of Sami or Lapps: When I was a child the term I always
- | heard was Lapps. However, that was when Norwegians were not particularly
- | conscious of the wishes or needs of their citizens in the north part of
- | the land. The Samis have sought rights for themselves more recently and
- | one of the results has been that others have been told fairly forcefully
- | that they should use the name Sami for this people. (It is spelled "same"
- | in Norwegian, but it is a two-syllable word.) This is now the official
- | name. "Lapp" means a patch of cloth for mending, thus the name suggests
- | that these people wore patched clothes, in all, a derogatory term and one
- | that needs to be dropped today.
-
-
- By the way, I have recently written to a woman who publishes a magazine on
- the Sami people (in Sweden?), and will report if and when I get a reply.
-
- Meanwhile, I'd like to mention that there is an English language publication
- called "BAIKI: the North American Journal of Sami Living" published in the
- United States. A free sample copy can be obtained by writing to:
-
- BAIKI Subscriptions (subscription rates are $10/year regular,
- 2416 London Road #702 $6 seniors & students, $15 international
- Duluth, MN 55812 $50 sponsor [includes free T-shirt]
- four issues published annually)
- STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
-
- It is the purpose of _BAIKI: the American Journal of Sami Living_
- to serve as a medium of education and communication between Sami
- people from North America and Sami people worldwide. We believe
- that our culture has survived the attempts to destroy it and that
- the publication of Sami art, literature and poetry, and the promo-
- tion of Sami music will help us to redefine our Sami identity for
- ourselves and for others. We seek to reaffirm our cultural aware-
- ness as a source of pride in who we are and where we are from. As
- the people of the sun we believe that our indigenous roots connect
- us to each other and to the earth.
-
-
- Issue #5 (Fall, 1992) contains a bibliography:
-
- "The following titles will interest people who want to know more
- about Samiland and its people. I doubt that many are still in
- print but a good second-hand bookstore may have copies. And
- your public library will have some of the titles or can borrow
- them for you on interlibrary loan."
-
- CLASSICS
-
- Schefferus, Johannes. _The History of Lapland_. The first
- edition, in Latin, was published in 1673. Much of the infor-
- mation about the early Sami came from this book.
-
- Turi, Johan. _Turi's Book of Lapland_. New York, 1931. It
- could be called the Sami _Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions_.
-
- SCHOLARLY WORKS
-
- Bosi, Roberto. _The Lapps_. Praeger, 1960.
-
- Collinder, Bjorn. _The Lapps_. American Scandinavian Foun-
- dation, 1949.
-
- Gjessing, Guttom. _The Changing Lapps_. London, 1954.
-
- Hill, Rowland, editor. _The Lapps Today in Finland, Norway
- and Sweden_. Paris, 1960.
-
- Ingold, Tim. _The Skolt Lapps Today_. Cambridge, 1976.
-
- Nickul, Karl. _The Lappish Nation_. Indiana University, 1977.
-
- Spencer, Arthus. _The Lapps_. Crane, Russak, 1978.
-
- Vorren, O/mulv [the slash is through the "O"] and Ernst Manker.
- _Lapp Life and Customs_. Oxford, 1962.
-
- PICTORAL WORKS
-
- Crottet, Robert. _Lapland_. Oslo, Dreyers, 1968.
-
- Huhtanen, Urpo. _Porovuosi, Reindeer Year_. Helsinki, Werner,
- 1970.
-
- Jannes, Elly. Photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick. _Nomads of the
- North_. Stockholm, 1950.
-
- Manker, Ernst. People of the Eight Seasons_. Beautiful photo-
- graphs and drawings. Viking, 1963.
-
- Marsden, Walter. _Lapland_. A Time-Life International Book,
- 1976.
-
- FICTION
-
- Friis, Johan. _Lajla_. A popular romantic novel which was made
- into a movie. Based on the story of a Sami girl with whom the
- author was madly in love.
-
- Frison-Roche, Roger. _The Raid_. Harper, 1964. _The Last
- Migration_. Harper, 1965. Two popular novels about the struggle
- of a Sami girl to resist Norwegianization in a boarding school.
-
- Prepared by Rudolph Johnson.
-
- --
- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
- Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
-