#i don't even think i could claim being saami or anything like that. it's not something i feel i can connect with and it's sad that it was | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

spokelseskladden · 20 days ago

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im from northern norway and i've been pretty lucky with the way most teachers tried to fulfill the learing requirements in the sense that I've actually learned about saami history and erasure, because apparently down in the south of norway a lot of teachers just. skip over the part where the norwegian government tried to erase saami culture and very nearly succeeded so yeah. kinda fucked up that.

#the norwegian curriculum is very open so most teachers are free to do whatever they want to reach the learning goals #and in many ways this is absolutely brilliant because you're not really being micromanaged in what you can and can't teach #but on the other hand it's not great that some really important and dark parts of norwegian history is skimmed over #some of my fellow students from the south didn't even know that the erasure still happens! and they didn't know how shameful being saami wa #for so long! Many people (me included) have saami roots that we're not truly aware of due to this shame because our family members hid -#- themselves away and it's tragic. my case is a bit different because it involves an adoption after ww2 so it's a bit messy #but even after getting in contract with our bio family it's not something spoken about at all. my dad gets angry if i even bring it up tbh #i don't even think i could claim being saami or anything like that. it's not something i feel i can connect with and it's sad that it was #taken from me #but it is what it is

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