#forest finns

[folkfashion]

Forest Finns duo's clothing, Norway, by Begrenset gjenbruk

[fluffycloudprincess]

DON'T STOP

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF SÀMI

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF KARELIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF FOREST FINN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF KVEN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF INGRIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF SETO

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF LIVONIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF THE NAME YOUR ANCESTORS SHOUTED WITH LOVE AND BLED FOR !!!

(One of the deadliest weapons of genocide is forced assimilation through language and self-identificstion)

[nexus8e]

Terje Abusdal     Lindalstorpet farm, by Lake Skasen

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/06/the-fire-and-fury-of-forest-finns-in-pictures

[ohagios]

Kontti, a backpack used by Forest Finns who were Finnish migrants from Central/Southern Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries before they largely assimilated into Swedish and Norwegian cultures.

[fluffycloudprincess]

Nomadic people and ethnic groups are always hypersexualised so for those of use who are ace it's like.......🧍🏽‍♀️

[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

[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.