Empowering Saami people: greater autonomy for greater equality
(WorldNews Norway)

Living for the most part in countries praised for their democratic system, the Saami population still feels threatened. Is this evidence that colonialism is hardly a thing of the past? Four Swedish Saami women from Wirijaure Staloluokta outside the shop in Furulund, July 2015. Wikicommons/ Baard Hartvig Lund. Some rights reserved. The first page of the Saami Council declaration held in Tråante in 2017 clearly proclaims: ` To enable the Saami people to live in a responsible way and be able to celebrate the next one hundred years, mercenary states in Sápmi must cease to impede our right to self-determination `. The tone of the declaration may seem surprisingly hostile from an outsider...