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Norway Issues Historic Apology to Indigenous Peoples

Norway’s Historic Apology to Indigenous Peoples For over a century, Norway has systematically suppressed the languages and cultures of its Indigenous peoples and various minority groups. This oppression included the forced removal of children from their families, part of a broader agenda known as “Norwegianization,” which has left lasting scars on these communities. In a significant move this…

Norway Issues Historic Apology to Indigenous Peoples

[fluffycloudprincess]

Wake up, New Forest Finn doc just dropped!!!! 🤭🤭🤭🤭 I'm so excited to watch ittt and inevitably see them talking about us in the past tense whilst somehow both demonising our excistsnce and denying the impact we had on Nordic culture as it stands today

[freyjaofthenorth]

found a book about forest finn culture and history at the library and as i never knew which things i grew up with came from which culture in my family history it’s always fun to look for things

and in the section on folk beliefs and how forest finn folk beliefs differ from swedish ones i learned that one of the big ones i grew up with, which if i remember correctly in religious studies terms is called total animism (”even rocks think in their own way” ~my mother), is apparently of forest finn descent, and originating in the old east-finnish religion

you learn something new every day

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 3 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

***** Fun migration fact *****

Many people believe Forest Finns came from Savonia then lived and died in Sweden and Norway BUT that's not true.

Many of us (like my ancestors) fled the persecution we faced and went back to Finland only to keep travelling around it (and other neighbouring countries) and in doing so meeting other now considered minority ethnic groups - in my family this was mainly the Sàmi, Karelians and Ålanders

[fluffycloudprincess]

People can be so cruel

I tell you our homes were burned down

I tell you we were beaten

I tell you we were spat on

I tell you we were killed as "witches"

I tell you that our language is buried deeper than our ancestors

I tell you that even though i don't know you, your name to me will always be friend - because all of us are wandering through unknown forests, even men born and raised in grey toned cities

And you call me a foreigner? Tell me my people have nothing to be proud of? Tell me our practices are stupid and backwards that they somehow destroy the earth more than your fossil fuels and fraking? Tell me my people are dead? Tell me you're glad that we're not even a footnote in history? Tell me you're glad to see me beg on the Internet (offering up my pride like a lamb to our now forgotten gods) for someone from my community who speaks my language because I'm so alone?

But I'm a Forest Finn, and so my name for you will always be friend.

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 1 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

[freyjaofthenorth]

i wonder if literally anyone has done any research on forest finn remains from the race biology days

i feel i can't be the only one who wants those remains to be repatriated too

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 2 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

Forest Finn Food Fact #1

. Aside from eating typical Finnish food and the foods of the places we reside we also have some of our own dishes one of these is called Mutti, a dish made from rye or roasted oat flour often eaten with pork belly/fat. 🩷