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Book events in Poulsbo, Tacoma, Portland

January 3, 2013 / Julie Whitehorn / Leave a comment


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Sámi-American author Ellen Marie Jensen is coming back to the Pacific Northwest for three events. If you haven’t met Ellen yet, don’t miss this opportunity! Her book events last summer were not only informative and fun, but sparked lively Q&A sessions and several friendships. On this tour, Ellen will be presenting her book, We Stopped Forgetting: Stories of Sámi Americans (now available in softcover), as well as the new English translation of Johan Turi’s An Account of the Sámi.

Both books are must-haves. They are also popular, so get them while you can. Ellen sold out of We Stopped Forgetting on her last tour, and Thomas DuBois (the translator of Turi’s book) sold out of An Account of the Sámi on his last visit to Seattle.

Ellen’s events are:

  • Tuesday, Jan. 8th, 11:30 pm,  Poulsbo Historical Society, Poulsbo www.poulsbohistory.org
  • Thursday, Jan. 10th, at 6:00 pm, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma http://www.plu.edu/scan/
  • Friday, Jan. 11 at 7:30 pm, Portland State University, Portland, sponsored by www.scanheritage.org

(Find more information at the We Stopped Forgetting Facebook Page.)

From the publisher’s press release (thank you, Rosalie Sundin!), below is further information about the books:

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A Quiet Christmas for the Sámi

December 12, 2012June 12, 2016 / Julie Whitehorn / Leave a comment

Johan Turi - An Account of the Sámi

When Dr. Thomas DuBois came to Seattle this fall to introduce his English translation of Johan Turi’s “An Account of the Sámi,” I was intrigued to find that my subdued childhood Christmases may have had something to do with Sámi tradition (as filtered through Laestadianism).

“It was a time to be very quiet,” Dr. DuBois said.

We certainly were that. In our Laestadian home, there were no “pagan” Christmas trees or lights, no Santas or carols, only a few fir boughs and candles, and a lot of cookies. We read from Scripture and sang hymns (softly). This was weak tea compared to story books and my classmates’ accounts of their holidays, and I was determined, when I had my own children, to make a big fuss of the holiday.

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