Saturday, August 8, 2015

At the SIIDA, The National Museum of Finnish Sami Culture.  Sami are the indigenous people.

The Sami hat was derived from the Russian mariners. The gift store had some interesting contemporary art.  A catalog of contemporary Sami artists had a realistic depiction of Elvis in Lapland sharing a fire with a Sami in full festive dress! 

Below is a political protest sticker using Munch's "The Scream".  Notice the Sami hat and the windmills on the horizon.  Former president of the Sami parliament Lars Anders Baer points out:
The issue is that today’s global climate debate focuses primarily on the symptoms of climate change. From a Sami perspective this is not good enough. Our holistic approach dictates that we all have to look at the underlying causes of climate change – the processes of industrialization and globalization, our lifestyles, our consumption habits, and the continuing large-scale exploitation of natural resources (Baer 2011).

Protest sticker about the use of Saami reindeer herding land being used for wind farms.

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