The land management arrangement – the Finnmark Estate (FeFo) established in Finnmark County - the northernmost county of Norway, is built on indigenous right claims, which implies that particular values, norms and principles are constitutive for and underpin FeFo as an institution. Still, the involved actors - FeFo and the two appointing bodies of the FeFo board - the Sami Parliament and the Finnmark ...

Across the world, Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their cultural and political identities, after having suffered decades of assimilation, repression and marginalisation. A major tool in this process is Indigenous journalism, which allows for storytelling and news reporting from the inside, as opposed to being a marginalised group that is only reported about from the outside. This article ...

To evaluate issues and party positions in the Sámi parliamentary elections, voters are dependent on information about political alternatives. Based on The 2017 Sámi Parliamentary Election Study, this chapter examines Sámi voters’ use of various information sources, how this use has changed over time, conditions that explain differences in use between voter groups, and whether voters have confidence ...

In 2018, the Norwegian Parliament appointed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the Norwegianisation policy and injustice against the Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finns. We focus on the commission’s public engagement, and emphasise Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finns’ perceptions and expectations in relation to these efforts. The mandate’s goal is to establish a common understanding of the ...

Denne rapporten søker å løfte fram ulike sider av «det samiske» i Nordkapp kommune i møte med nye arealinngrep, gjennom både informanters beskrivelser og gjennom bruk av statistikk. Vi presenterer data knyttet til identitetsskifte og at samer har blitt færre i området. Vi belyser også dagens situasjon gjennom å ta for oss temaer som på ulike måter viser at det i dag er en samisk tilstedeværelse ...

Sami Parliaments were established in 1989 in Norway, in 1994 in Sweden and in 1997 in Finland. Representative Sami institutions are regarded as a condition for Sami self-determination. State formation in the Scandinavian context has been enacted through several historical dynamics. First, nation-building relied on the assimilation or segregation of other cultural groups, through coercive measures ...