Kristin Solberg, Sarakka Gaup and host Tuula Sharma Vassvik talk about their connections to nature, Sámi language and family - ways of strengthening our culture and knowledge. We also focus on the body and knowledge about movement and ritual, embodying resistance and survivance.

MENTIONED IN EPISODE:
Sarakka's father, Ailo Gaup (https://nbl.snl.no/Ailo_Gaup), Linnea Axelsson's "Ædnan" (https://snl.no/Linnea_Axelsson), "Vuoiŋŋalašvuohta" by Tuula Sharma Vassvik (https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/10/512), and the Arctic Railway, for which plans have been recently paused (https://www.arctictoday.com/lapland-regional-council-rejects-arctic-railway/)

Episode 1. "I have chosen not to live in a colonized body"

A conversation with two Sámi water-protectors and artists Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska, taking part in the movement to protect the fjord Riehppovuotna and its surrounding reindeer gracing lands from the Nussir ASA mining project. (Photo: Henrikke Ellingsen)

Fundraiser for the protector camp in Riehppovuotna: https://www.spleis.no/project/180139  
The yoik Gulahallat Eatnamin (we speak earth): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzBmDpDAskQ

Episode 2. Protecting Riehppovuotna - with Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska and Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen

An episode based on two conversations with Sámi politicians Ann Finnbog and Silje Karine Muotka talking about the political issues closest to their hearts.
Music by: Torgeir Vassvik

Episode 3. Election Special: Talking with Sámi politicians Silje Karine Muotka and Ann Finbog

Mari Boine talks about her journey from the "shyest person in the world" to the carrier of a strong voice, listening to her ancestors and becoming an elder.
Music: Lihkahusat - Entranced, Mari Boine. Photo: Knut Bry

Episode 4. A conversation with Mari Boine

Ninthu Paramalingam from the pod "decolonize it" and Vuostildanfearánat invited gender researcher and head of the sámi queer organization Gármeres, Elisabeth Stubberud and Timimie Gassko Märak, a sámi poet, spoken word artist, protector of queer and Sámi rights and "professional homo" to have a conversation about the many ways that sámi culture have been and still is relating to gender, sexuality and relations in what today can be called queer ways. 

We are looking at Sáminess through a queer lens. And we are looking at queerness through a Sámi lens. Remembering that queerness in many ways is a western term that somehow describes «otherness». When indigenizing queerness we make space for talking about how Sámi society have been and still is doing gender, sexuality and relationships in our own ways. 

We also talk about the ways that we as sámi can use our already existing cultural infrastructures to create space for queer ways of existing that have been missing from sápmi for some time.

Episode 5. Indigenizing queerness - with Timimie Gassko Märak and Elisabeth Stubberud

<3 A GENTLE WARNING <3: this episode contains accounts of threats of racial violence and colonial trauma /// Liisa-Ravna Finbog and I talk about her research which strengthens the Sámi infrastructures of duodji (Sámi handicrafts, aestethic practices and storytelling)our histores and our ancestors; taking up space and breaking down colonial spaces and infrastructures that still attempts to silence Sámi Indigenous voices; and Kari from Drammen.

Episode 6. The Completely Unapologetic Sámi researcher and duojar Liisa-Ravna Finbog

This episode is a share from Vuostildan-host Tuula Sharma Vassvik's collaboration with Jiennagoahti, an artwork dedicated to listening in the Bergen Mountains. 

Sážžá Káhtariinná is a Birgon/Bergen based artist, duojár and chair of Birgon/Bergen Sámi Association and one of Jiennagoahti’s curators (alongside Elin Már Øyen Vister). Sážžá Katarina introduces the idea behind Jiennagoahti and explains how a traditional goahti’s architecture and inner layout is connected to Sámi worldviews, philosophy, spiritual meanings and functions. She shares from her own experience of being a Sámi in Birgon/Bergen, and addresses moments of Sámi history in and around Birgon/Bergen. Storytelling is a crucial part of Jiennagoahti. Jietna means sound or voices, but what does it mean to gullat, listen? 
 
The episode includes the sound work “Yoiking the Jekt home”, composed by sea Sámi artist and actor Emil Ráste Nikolavu Kárlsen; Čavkkus-Emil. An old myth from the Julevsámi lands, tells
the story of a wife who yoiked her husband’s Jekt home from Birgon/Bergen, as he got caught in a bad storm and the mast of his ship broke. The wife became weary of his delayed return and
decided to walk up to the top of a mountain in Gásluokta/Kjøpsvik. She had the powers of a noaidi (a Sámi shaman) and began to spin her spinning weel and yoik, to bring her husband safely home.
The story was written down by the ethnographer Just Qvigstad in the 1920s from informant Risten Jonsdatter (born 1894 i Divttasvuodna/Tysfjord). When Čavkkus-Emil composed the music, he tried to embody the feeling of standing on the top of the mountain, yoiking outwards. He then moved his attention to the husband, who must have sailed so fast that the seawater splashed red, green and yellow around the boat. The words joiked and sung
highlights the joy, fear and gratitude for his wife’s powers to help him safely home:
«Vuolggan dál jo ruoktot, de viimat, de giitan dal jo mu eamida og dat juoigga mu dál, in šat
balla»

«Thus I fare home, finally, so I thank my wife for joiking me, I am no longer afraid»

(Bonus) episode 7: Sámi sound art gallery Jiennagoahti and the Sámi history of Birgon (Bergen)

Grateful for her grandparents and their strong presence in her upbringing, our guest talks about the knowledge she inherited and how it has led her to where she is today. Line Efraidsen is a birth and death doula, trauma therapy counsellor, facilitator, and so much more. She grew up in Alta, an important place for Sámi history in many ways. Since she was very little Line has felt the importance of strong relations to nature. The protection of lands and waters from invasive infrastructures is a part of our heritage as Sámi people, but more importantly in Line's experience it is a united global force with similar expressions. After years of traveling  and working with people from all walks of life, she shares her thoughts on building community, strengthening relations to natures and connecting to some of the central powers in Sámi mythology.

Connect with Lines work: https://www.facebook.com/line.s.efraidsen

Episode 8. Line Efraidsen on carrying grandparents knowledge, and connecting to nature and community

(English below)
Podkástta sámaidahttima birra, man vuođđun ja šaddanbáikin leat sámeeallinvuogit. Mii ságastallat das mo doallat iežamet dearvan ja gievran, suodjalit min eatnamiid, servodagaid ja kultuvrraid kolonialasttalaš diliin. Vuostildanfearánat lea ráhkaduvvon ovttasbarggus Árktalaš Silkegeaidnu -dutkanprošeavttain.

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A podcast about indigenizing - sámaidahttin- grounding and growing in Sámi ways of living. We talk about ways of keeping ourselves healthy and strong, protecting our lands, communities and culture amid new forms of colonial state incursion and infrastructures. Vuostildanfearánat is made in collaboration with the Arctic Silk Road research project.

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