| Summary: | The article analyses and describes the oral tradition connected to places and landscape, as well as the connection between place names and oral tradition in a cluster of 20th century North Sami communities by the River Deatnu (Teno) in the municipality of Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), Finland. The theoretical frame of the analysis is based on cognitive linguistics and cultural studies as well as landscape studies. The most important source materials are the tapes recorded in 1960’s and 1970’s during an extensive Sami folklore documentation project lead by Professor Lauri Honko at the University of Turku, Finland. Supplementary materials that help in the interpretation of older materials have been collected by the author since 1996. In the analyses, an emic-perspective has been taken as the starting point by using local genre terminology and by prioritizing local indigenous interpretations. The analysis reveals that the local Sami place tradition is versatile and that the understanding of landscape is profoundly connected to the indigenous ontology and ways of living. Particularly important is the close and intimate connection between families and their inherited family territories. The place tradition is most often represented as a muitalus story that is based on individual personal experiences of the narrator. While analyzing the landscape scheme, it became obvious that the role of place names is not as central as it might seem to be in everyday discourse. In the landscape scheme the sub-schemes of folklore, inherited knowledge (árbediehtu), and inherited knowhow (árbemáhttu) are at least as important as the place name sub-scheme. When the landscape scheme’s functions are examined as an entirety, the place names seem to typically have only a practically determined reference function whereas the other sub-schemes carry much more information and meaning. Artikkeli käsittelee Utsjoen Ylä-Tenolla sijaitsevan kolmen kylän saamelaisten paikkoihin ja maisemaan liittyvää perinnettä sekä paikannimien ja paikkoihin liittyvän perinteen suhdetta 1900-luvulla. Analyysin teoreettisena kehyksenä on kognitiivinen kielen- ja kulttuurintutkimus. Tärkeimpänä tutkimusaineistona ovat ns. Talvadas-projektin suomen- ja pohjoissaamenkieliset äänitteet 1960- ja 1970-luvuilta sekä omat kokemukset ja kenttätyöt alueella vuodesta 1996 alkaen. Aineistoa tarkastellaan emic-näkökulmasta: paikallisia perinnetermejä käyttäen ja kertojien omia tulkintoja kunnioittaen. Artikkelista käy ilmi, että Ylä-Tenon saamelaisten paikkoihin liittyvä perinne on hyvin monimuotoista. Sille on tyypillistä voimakas side kunkin perheen suvun maihin sekä kerronnan perustuminen omakohtaisiin kokemuksiin, jota muitalus-genren yleisyys kuvaa. Paikannimet asettuvat paikkaperinteen rinnalla vähäisempään rooliin kuin arkikokemuksen perusteella voisi arvella: ne ovat vain yksi paikan merkitysverkoston osista muiden joukossa.
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