B.1.e. The Saami: Norway, Sweden and Finland

Volume Two -> B. Indigenous Movements -> B.1. Campaigns for Civil, Political and Cultural Rights -> B.1.e. The Saami: Norway, Sweden and Finland
Ingold, Tim The Skolt Lapps Today, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1976 , pp. 290

Primary focus on Saami in Finland. Study of reservation resettled due to boundary changes with USSR after 1945, looking at ecological imbalances, links to government and debates about future. But also notes influence of broader Nordic movement and its different approaches (conservative defence of Lapp culture, or left focus on neocolonialism). Chapter 21 examines the evolution of the wider Saami movement and inter-Nordic conferences (pp. 235-44).
Paine, Robert Ethnodrama and the “Fourth World”: The Saami Action Group in Norway 1979-81, In Noel Dyck, Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State: ‘Fourth World’ Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway (B.1. Campaigns for Civil, Political and Cultural Rights) St John’s Nfld, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985 pp. smaller than 0

Analysis by social anthropologist of campaign against the Alta Hydropower Dam, and its impact in promoting cultural and political rights.
Lawrence, William Saami and Norwegians protest construction of Alta Dam, Norway, 1979-81, ed. Rennebohm, Max, 2011 , pp. 3

Useful summary with references.
Thuen, Trond Quest for Equity: Norway and the Saami Challenge, St John’s Nfld, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995 , pp. 300

Websites recommended

Ethnodrama and the “Fourth World”: The Saami Action Group in Norway 1979-81 St John’s Nfld Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985

Analysis by social anthropologist of campaign against the Alta Hydropower Dam, and its impact in promoting cultural and political rights.
Quest for Equity: Norway and the Saami Challenge St John’s Nfld Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995
Saami and Norwegians protest construction of Alta Dam, Norway, 1979-81 (http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/saami-and-norwegians-protest-constructi...) , 2011

Useful summary with references.
The Skolt Lapps Today Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1976

Primary focus on Saami in Finland. Study of reservation resettled due to boundary changes with USSR after 1945, looking at ecological imbalances, links to government and debates about future. But also notes influence of broader Nordic movement and its different approaches (conservative defence of Lapp culture, or left focus on neocolonialism). Chapter 21 examines the evolution of the wider Saami movement and inter-Nordic conferences (pp. 235-44).

(NB Saami is sometimes spelled Sami in the literature)