Sami Blood

Sami Blood, a film that examines the dark history of the Sami people, not so unlike what most Indigenous peoples have undergone throughout the globe, by quintessential colonizers who sought to impose their ideals onto the Sami people — by way of stripping Sami youths of personhood, families, freedom, and culture. As with most Indigenous youths throughout history the story goes as follows:

In the era of 1930’s Sweden Sami children were forcibly removed from their homes and families only to be placed in Eurocentric boarding schools throughout the Scandinavian region where all sense of our culture was denied. This regulated practice of bigotry lasted throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Sami Blood follows the life of teenager Ell-Marja as she endures one such boarding school as she wrestles with assimilation into the “acceptable” white society all the while holding onto her heritage… and humanity.

There is a trigger warning advised due to the fact at one point as furthermore not so unlike the experiences that have lasted to this day belonging to fellow Indigenous youths, Women, etc there is a scene of sexual violence in the film.