Historjá - Stygn för Sápmi

Yet another of those tedious films depicting indigenous people as poor victims of the so called "civilisation" - the white man is to blame for everything that has gone wrong with with the traditional lifestyle of this people.

For some reason indigenous people are always depicted as having a special gift that "civilised" people lack - they can talk to Mother Earth and understand what is wrong. Even the change of climate is an issue here - and of course the white man is to blame for it. It's also interesting that they mean that they have the right to the land - but suddenly it's said that the land is not theirs - they are just borrowing it.

Furthermore, I'd call it hypocrisy when you are able to use modern inventions like snowmobiles, quad bikes and helicopters in order to maintain the ancestor's way of living - and you're still opposing to the modern society. In my opinion one must make a choice - adapt to new times or live like the ancestors did hundred of years back; which would mean not relying on modern technology.