As a museum, we make sure that we include our tradition, our society needs in a way.

So if you see that in my mind, the museum have a really important role to make sure that the

generation in the futures have the same traditional knowledge that we have today, but also have the

knowledge about the change that is going on. I think that the museum role is the key role in

connecting past and future in a way, because we are losing something, but hopefully we are also

winning something. That was Anami Oli. She's the director of the largest Sami Museum in Norway,

the Redu Duat Museum. The museum manages photographs, art, and information on Sami cultural heritage.

Anami says that the museum is thinking 100, 200 years into the future, about how what they're

documenting today will affect and inform Sami people in the future. For example, the vitality of

reindeer husbandry, something the Sami people have been practicing for generations is a concern.

On top of climate change, causing diminishing grazing areas, the Norwegian government

is taking land from Sami people by putting things like windmills and power lines on their land.

Anami says that the museum is focused on documenting these changes, to keep a record of the past and

the present in order to inform the future, that there's a strong possibility that northern countries

will be looked at for guidance in a future affected by climate change. She has a vested interest

in Norway. In addition to her work at the museum, she's a farmer. Her husband is a reindeer

herder, her kids are farmers and reindeer herders, and she's of Sami heritage.

So here she is, Anami Oli.

Welcome to Chattermarks. A podcast of the Anchorage Museum.

Dedicated to exploring Alaska and the circumpolar north, through the creative and critical thinking

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