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Last yoik in Saami forests? / Elonmerkki-Signs of Life presents ; a documentary of Saami forests for the United Nations ; director, Hannu Hyvönen.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 360
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Finnish
- Inari Sami
- Subjects (All):
- Finland. Metsähallitus.
- Finland.
- Greenpeace International.
- Sami (European people)--Land tenure--Finland.
- Sami (European people).
- Forest management--Environmental aspects--Government policy--Finland.
- Forest management.
- Logging--Social aspects--Finland.
- Logging.
- Reindeer--Effect of logging on--Finland.
- Reindeer.
- Conflict of interests--Finland.
- Conflict of interests.
- Documentary films.
- Logging--Social aspects.
- Sami (European people)--Land tenure.
- Forest management--Environmental aspects.
- Government policy.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English, Finnish and Sami with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This video documents the conflict in Finland between the Saami reindeer herders and the state-owned forest company Metsähallitus. The conflict is over the harvesting of trees in the Saami's traditional territory. The documentary seeks to provide a chronology of events as well as an explanation of the continuing conflict.
- Contents:
- Same sad story around the world (3 min.)
- What's behind the battles? (2 min.)
- Consulting the destruction? (11 min.)
- Niilas Somby, yoikhing the Saamiland (10 min.)
- The future of Lake Inari? (7 min.).
- Participant:
- Narrator: Rita Thomassen.
- Credits:
- Dramaturgy, Pauliina Feodoroff ; editors, Hannu Hyvönen and Ossi Kakko ; music, Nils-Aslak Valleapää, Ingor Ántte Áilu Gaup, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Wimme Saari ; narrator, Rita Thomassen.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary in 2007.
- Awards, Pärnu Film Festival, 2008; Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival, 2008; Wildlife Vaasa film festival, 2008; Green Planet Blues environmental movie festival, Romania, 2009.
- OCLC:
- 463292517
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