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Pirttijärvi was raised with joik music and chanting. As a young child, she listened to her mother and uncle sing stories to her, and she chanted along; by age ten she was singing on her own. She then started performing in public with a group of young girls who called themselves Angelin Tytöt.
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Pirttijärvi is very involved promoting Sami culture and Sami self-rule. In 1996, she wrote a music book called
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Pirttijärvi was awarded with Nordic Sámi Council's Literature Prize in 1996 for her book.
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music festival in
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292:"Hoŋkoŋ dohkká / Ulla Pirttijärvi"
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