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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi

The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi

Graham, Fiona
Labba, Elin Anna

Hardcover

Indigenous StudiesScandinavian History

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 1517913306
ISBN13: 9781517913304
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The deep and personal story--told through history, poetry, and images--of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today

More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba's ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts, Labba shares, citing the Sámi poet Áillohas. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today's world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.

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