My life

My name is Olen’k. I left my Sámi people, but I never became Russian. (in Russian)	I know, I can, and I taught my children traditional Sámi skills.
But I can´t speak Sámi. My tongue is made of wood.	I wish my people knew their language.

Elena Tolstenko (in Kildin Sámi), Loparskaya, Murmansk Oblast, Russia 2018