The indigenous Sami people in northern Sweden took a step toward self-determination in the New Year, when the government gave them full control of reindeer herding for the first time.
Now the people once known as Lapps face a far more crucial battle — for rights to land they have used for millennia, a struggle that has raised complex questions about traditional land use and the north’s vast mineral wealth.
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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