Erasmusu in Sweden (Pablo en)
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An entire year living in Sweden gives to you hundreds of experiences. And not all of them can be gathered in only one blog. This blog collect little experieces in Sweden, pieces of advise, unnoticed details, etc (en)
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Nature photography exhibition in Vasterbotten Museum
In the Vasterbotten Museum, there is a room focused on the nature of the region and sorroundings. They are represented by many amazing and spectacular images taken by the nature photographer Svante Lundgren (1913 – 1988). He is though as one of the pioneers in the...
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The open air Museum of Gammlia.
Just at right of the Vasterbotten Museum building we can find the open air museum of Gammlia. The place is situated in the current center of the town and a walk from downtown takes no more than 10-15 min. This open museum shows the traditional life of the Swedish and...
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Gammlia farm
The open air museum of Gammlia includes many different buildings that represent a traditional Swedish farm. The idea of recreate this important part of the Swedish tradition comes from a local history association from the Vasterbotten region. They wanted to move a...
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The Helena Elisabeth-Church of Gammlia
The open air museum of Gammlia doesn’t only include farm buildings but also city buildings from 1800’s. One of the most important and, at the same time, beautiful buildings is the Helena Elisabeth-Church of Gammlia. It is a wooden church with octagonal plant. It was...
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Sjidda – The first Sami’s organization
The early hunting and fishing society of the Samis was organized around small family groups that worked and lived together. As the Sami population grew, new needs evolved that put greater demands on organizing and dividing the resources in the form of hunting grounds,...
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Sameby – The actual Sami’s organization
A sameby is a geographical area as well as organization and administration fore reindeer husbandry. The geographical area stretches from inland forest to mountain ranges on both sides of the Swedish-Norwegian border. Many of the mountain samebys own grazing rights and...
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The Sami heritage of Umea
The Sami people are the only recognised indigenous people in Sweden and Europe. And Umea will be the first European Capital of Culture that highlights them. This is due to the big importance that Sami culture have had as a part of the history and culture of the city of...
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The Sami Culture in Umea 2014
The Sami culture is represented in the activities of the European Capital of Culture in many different ways. The most important is the division of the culture year in 8 seasons according to the 8 seasons of the Sami calendar. Moreover, the programme of the year include...
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Sami objects
The Sami people have been elaborating their tools by hand for thousands and thousands of years, since they were the first people in populate Sweden until nowadays. And they still do them as they did, with the refined experience of centuries. But they are also renewed...
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The Sami flag
The Sami people is one of the world’s indigenous peoples and have been living unconstrained by borders for thousands of years. They have their own unique culture, languages and costumes which make them different from the rest of the society. One of them is their flag....
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Sami History I – from the beginnings of the knowledge of this people.
The Sami history is a long journey that started at the end of the last ice age and it is still going nowadays. There are many important events along this time that have marked the life and culture of this indigenous people. The beginning of this people started more than...
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Sami History II – the Viking and Middle Ages.
During the Viking Age, the Vikings from Iceland told histories about the Sami, mostly in relationship with the hides that where the most important good of trade between both peoples during this period. In this time the Sami goods were very valued for traders, but also...
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Sami History III – the 16th and 17th centuries.
In the 16th century, the King divided the Sami people into different “Sami villages” to take the control over the Sami people from the “Birkarls” and take their taxes. One of the advances in the Sami rights was when the King Gustav Vasa ordered to punish those...
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Sami History IV – the colonization of the Samis land
1673 was the year when started the “Lapp mark-proclamation”. It was a point to start the colonization of Lapland to encourage new settlements in the Sami area. It was thought that agriculture and the Sami traditional ways of life could coexist on the same area. But...
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Sami History V – the 19th century
During the period 1868-1873 the Swedish government drawn the borders of cultivation. They divided the Swedish land between state and private land and also drawn a line for the protection of the Sami are from further colonization. It should prevent these areas from...
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Sami History VI – the beginning of the 20th century
After centuries and centuries when the Sami people interests were run over for the Swedish nation’s best, in the 20th century Sami people started to organize to claim for their rights. The first meeting was in 1917 in Trondeheim (Norway). The day of this first meeting...
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Sami History VII – the last decades
In 1986 there were 2 events that marked the development of the Sami people in the last years. The first one was the explosion of the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl. Even been so far away it had a great effect over the Sami people, since the nuclear waste fall over...
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Sami fishing
When we were in the Sami camp in Kiruna, one of the activities we more did was fishing. Fishing have always been very important for Sami people as a source of income and trade. It is very important in summer months, when the reindeers live alone in isolated mountains,...
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Sami reindeer.
Reindeers are a central point of the live of the Sami people. Only Samis who are members of a sameby are allowed to practise their husbandry. Their importance comes from the perfect adaptation of the animal to the Arctic climate with long and cold winters. The full...
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Reindeer meat
One of the things I wanted to try before coming Sweden was the reindeer meat. Of course, after being here more than 6 months I have had several opportunities to taste it. In the supermarket you can buy this meat in many different forms, mainly dried or frozen. Although...
