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Want to give me a hand turn? [[cough, cough]]
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oh yeah [[background talking]]. Same. Same thing. Actually
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I have a note here that Ms. White from Seaton School should go to the Administration Tent to pick up Michael Tanoic a lost child.
Thank you
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{SPEAKER name="Marvin Salo"}
One, two, three...can you hear me?
Woof, Woof

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Good Afternoon. I am umm glad to be here and I present our Folklife for our Folklife Festival. A little higher.

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Okay. Go ahead. Okay introduce me.
{Background} That is my job

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It is my job to introduce you. From embarrassment of Soda, (laugh) it is spelled that way it sounds. It is a French term. The French got driven out by the Fins many many years ago. I liked to introduce the man who practices traditional crafts in a traditional way. And is very particular to make sure that all of the methods that he uses are accurate and are traditional and he frowns upon the use of nails and glue and things like that. And does everything by hand. (laugh) I remember the glue.

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Mr. Marvin Salo. (clapping). Good afternoon. I am proud to be here as a member of the Folklife Festival and bring some of our finished traditions from Northern Minnesota down to Washington D.C. And as you probably know are traditions in Northern Minnesota has stayed in Northern Minnesota for the reason that even the fourth generations still speak or I should say are bilingual, they speak Finnish and English both. A lot of songs that you probably have heard here are Finnish songs and you probably have heard of a few English songs. Not too many of them.

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But, uh, to hold tradition into the area and the way it was taught the ancestors would have to relate back to your, to the original language it was taught in. So, I believe that a lot of these methods will be lost if we do not try to teach them or translate them to the English language so the rest of the people can enjoy this too. So under this method I have been trying to umm give us survival tool kit for our crafts and our traditions.

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And so I go back where I was raised. I was raised in Northern Minnesota, but they call.. It is a poor area. Everything we had to make. Our mode of travel in the winter time was skis. And in the summertime, are mode of travel was a pair of good feet with hard soles on them that you developed when you started out in the spring and jumped around like a rabbit because you stepped on the first rock and by the fall time, they are so tough you can step on nails.

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And this goes back to umm why I think that most people survive. Because they just had to be tough to make it. Now, under this craftsmanship that witch crafts I do as this was taught to me by my great uncle. My great uncle says in Fin said "nyt opit". And that was the beginning of it. He said now you learn. This is it. This is it. You are not going to get away from me now.

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And if you did not learn. He meant that you will deceive. You won't have a chance at life. He came from Lapland which is upper part of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. And a lot of these methods you will probably will see that I use in my craft pertain to not only the Finnish people. It is of the Scandinavian people, which are Russia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

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And even there are some, I think there are some of this that pertains to Estonia. Estonia, I think, the skis that make the bottom has been developed from Estonia. The Estonians have flat bottom and grooves up and straight across and down again and makes it a lot easier if you have a line that goes like this and you stretch it out it has more friction.

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But if you bring a straight line up, straight line over, straight line down, straight line back for the bottom of the ski which would be a square bottom. This one would have less friction consequently you would not get as tired per a mile as you would if you had around a curved bottom on your ski. So, I think this comes from Estonia. I have a, it come from Finland or Norway, the Swedish have the round groove on the bottom of their skis. Now if there is any questions raise your hand, holler "Wow". Is there anything you would like to me add to that?