Welcome to the culture evening at Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš / Centre for Northern Peoples. The event is titled Mii leat dás – We are here. Stories about Norwegianisation. Don't miss the film premiere and book presentation where Norwegianisation is the theme.
Where: Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš / Centre for Northern Peoples, Kultursalen
WhenFriday 16 November at 5.00 pm
Programme:
17:00 – 18:00
Henrik Olsen (Sámi Parliament):
The Sámi Parliament's expectations for the Truth Commission's work. What does the Sámi Parliament expect the centres in Sápmi to do in relation to the commission's work?
Author Ellen Thorsdalen presents her new book Mother's Daughters.
Indoctrination and assimilation meet Sami and Kven children in Northern Norway when they start school in the 1930s. In this novel, the daughters encounter two language worlds. At home, all conversation takes place in Sami. At school, they only encounter Norwegian because the teachers have their guidelines to follow. Some of the teachers show no pedagogical insight, not even when small seven-year-olds turn up for their first day of school.
18:00
Film premiere – Portraits from Kåfjord. Stories about the Norwegianisation.
Filmmaker Roger Mandal from Manndalen, in collaboration with the Centre for Northern Peoples, has made a documentary about the consequences of Norwegianisation.
In the film, we meet both older and younger generations who have experienced, and are still affected by, the process of Norwegianisation, both spiritually and mentally.
Conversation with the audience
Roger Mandal
Filmmaker Roger Manndal is from Manndalen, and is also the man behind the documentaries 9175 Sveagruva from 2007 and Viddas Voktere from 2014.
9175 Sveagruva won the audience award at Riddu that same year. It was also shown at Eurodok and Skabmagovat.
– I grew up in Manndalen myself and know the feeling of being neither a fully-fledged Norwegian nor a fully-fledged Sámi. I was born in 1976. For the first fifteen years of my life, I was a Norwegian Norwegian. In 1991, I was wearing a suit with a cummerbund and a bow tie for my confirmation. But by then, doubts about my identity had seriously begun to surface. Things were changing. When I turned 30, I put on a 'kofta' for the very first time, says Mandal.
The filmmaker has visited people in their homes and collected their stories, including everyday stories with their spiritual aspects. These everyday stories have been compiled into a cohesive whole, with the effects of the 'fornorskingspolitikk' (Norwegianisation policy) as a clear common thread.