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TALES OF A SEA SAMI - CHAPTER 1
ENGLISH VERSION
Episode Summary: In this first episode, my father is born in 1906 in the Kola Peninsula. His mother was a North Sámi, born in Vadso Norway. His father dies on the same night that he is born. His mother returns to Petsamo (now Pechenga). In 1908 Skolt Sámi relocate to live in Petsamo. My father describes his early days as a young child living in a turf hut through the long, harsh, cold winters of the north, surviving by eating berries preserved during the summer months, and building traps using birch wood to catch rabbits and grouse.
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Keywords
samiindigenousoral historyfirst nationsLaplandNorth Sami