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Round II: NRK Sápmi

1. They Believe In Spirits

In 1965 comes a young, newly educated doctor to Kautokeino. He meets a society where belief in the "supernatural" is most alive. Øyvind Vandbakk from Bærum has worked 40 years in Kautokeino. His patients believes that it’s possible to stop wounds from bleeding with words.

2. The Search for Grandfather’s Skull

Under Kautokeino Rebellion in 1852 took a group of reindeer-breeders called "the righteous" a settlement with the Norwegian clergy in the Sami village of Kautokeino. It was a social rebellion against the priest, the sheriff and the merchant. Aslak Jacobsen Hætta led the Kautokeino Rebellion. Two years later, he and Mons Somby beheaded at Gallows Mountain in Alta.

I do not get peace of mind until I have found my grandfather's skull, "said Hættas granddaughter, 90-year-old Risten Hætta Pentha. The documentary focuses on Kautokeino Rebellion and Risten Hætta Penthas painful looking at her grandfather's skull. First, in 1997, the skull was found at the University of Copenhagen, where it has been used for research. For the descendants of "the righteous", it has been a painful time. The church and much of the Sami community has since denounced those actions. In many ways, were the descendants of Hætta Somby and ostracized by the community in Kautokeino. They were called the "lost ones" and were often told that they came from the killer family. It took over 100 years before Hætta-kin received redress.