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Jun 1, 2012 · This article explores the cultural memory-making of one such film, The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008) directed by leading Sámi filmmaker Nils Gaup.
The expression “the Kautokeino rebellion” is used to describe the event that took place Monday November 8th, 1852. A group of Sami rebelled against the non-Sami residents of Kautokeino including merchant Carl Johan Ruth, District Sheriff Lars Lohan Bucht, and the newly arrived pastor, Fredrik W. Hvoslef.
May 22, 2012 · This article explores the cultural memory-making of one such film, The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008) directed by leading Sámi filmmaker Nils Gaup. The film adapts the story of a mortal rebellion in 1852, where a group of Sámi reindeer herders killed the chief of police and the local merchant.
- Cato Christensen
- 2012
- Incredible Glimpse Into The Times
- Provoked by The Authorities
- Drunken Priest on A Sled
- Beaten at School
- Religious Conflict
- Rebellion Not mentioned
- Probably Censored
- Intellectual Convict
- Sinful Sami
- Family Conflicts
Their stories give rare insights into 19th century Sami communities. The writings “open an absolutely incredible window into the times,” says Ivar Bjørklund, a professor at UiT Norway's Arctic University. The stories have been published before, but have been relatively unknown to a larger audience, according to Bjørklund. Together with colleagues f...
Norwegians and Sami who did not speak the same language were like two types of herds that could never become one, as Bær describes it. They did not understand each other linguistically or culturally. The Sami view of life – the moral universe, as Bjørklund calls it – often provoked the Norwegian authorities. And the authorities provoked the Sami ev...
Like many others at that time, Hætta and Bær became part of the Christian Laestadian revival movement. The movement identified alcohol as a great sin in a society that was severely affected by alcohol abuse. Even the men of the church were far from pious. Bær tells of a time when he shuttled a priest to Alta. "The priest was so drunk that he could ...
Bær thought he learned a lot through the revival movement. It was a big contrast to his previous confirmation instruction. Priest Nils Joachim Christian Vibe Stockfleth was a supporter of conveying Christian teachings to the Sami in their own language, but at the same time showed little understanding of the fact that many Sami were illiterate. "I t...
Religious, social, economic and personal issues all contributed to the Kautokeino rebellion, according to the Store Norske Leksikon(Big Norwegian Lexicon). Conflicts had built up over time. The Church of Norway did not like the revival movement, and punished followers for disrupting services. "The awakened," for their part, believed that the priest...
Even the Sami who hadn’t converted to Laestadianism weren’t spared the anger of the rebels. The rebellion was in fact stopped by Sami people who were not on the side of the "awakened" rebels. In the court hearings following the uprising, the participants did not mince their words. The church and state were described as "the devil's work," according...
Bjørklund surmises that the text was read and perhaps censored by Jens Andreas Friis, a linguist who taught the two Sami to write in prison and preserved their stories. “I think it was because Friis was working on applying for a pardon for the two men. I think it wouldn’t have strengthened Bær's application if he’d written about the insurgency as h...
Whereas Bær described his life, Hætta wrote mostly about religion and morality. He described Sami "shouters", who would shout out messages of doomsday. Hætta also wrote about the faith of the Sami before Christianity. “Hætta was obviously the intellectual of the two,” says Bjørklund. Lars Hætta was only 18 years old at the time of the uprising. It ...
Bjørklund thinks Hætta’s views on spirituality in Kautokeino are among the most interesting parts of the manuscripts. The converts weren’t just angry at the authorities. They also wanted to clean up their own ranks. Hætta summarizes the most common sins of his fellow villagers: "To sum it up: drunkenness, theft, lewdness, crude and shameless talk, ...
Family was important among the Sami. Bær vividly describes family relationships, gender roles – and the conflicts with his father. Father and son were prosperous, with a total of 600 reindeer. The father did not accept the marriage of his son to the less well-off Inger Jacobsdatter Hætta, and he wasn’t happy that the family had to feed her younger ...
May 20, 2019 · Chapter 8, the final chapter, also by Nellejet Zorgdrager, “Sámi Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge: The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath,” documents the Kautokeino rebellion of 1852 and the changing attitudes to the rebellion, those involved, and their families across the subsequent 150 years as a result of a film, novels ...
- Leslie A. King
- 2019
The Sámi revolt in Guovdageaidnu, also known as the Kautokeino uprising, was a revolt in the village of Kautokeino in Kautokeino Municipality in northern Norway in 1852 by a group of Sámi who attacked representatives of the Norwegian authorities.
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Dec 1, 2007 · The ideologies emerged after a group of Sami Laestadians in Kautokeino, Norway murdered representatives of the government in 1852 in a revolt against trade practices and restrictions on reindeer...
