Liberating Sápmi

The S mi, who have inhabited Europe's far north for thousands of years, are often referred to as the continent's "forgotten people." With S pmi, their traditional homeland, divided between four nation-states--Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia--the S mi have experienced the profound oppression and discrimination that characterize the fate of indigenous people worldwide: their lands have been confiscated, their beliefs and values attacked, their communities and families torn apart. Yet the S mi have shown incredible resilience, defending their identity and their territories and retaining an important social and ecological voice--even if many, progressives and leftists included, refuse to listen. Liberating S pmi is a stunning journey through S pmi and includes in-depth interviews with S mi artists, activists, and scholars boldly standing up for the rights of their people. In this beautifully illustrated work, Gabriel Kuhn, author of over a dozen books and our most fascinating interpreter of global social justice movements, aims to raise awareness of the ongoing fight of the S mi for justice and self-determination. The first accessible English-language introduction to the history of the S mi people and the first account that focuses on their political resistance, this provocative work gives irrefutable evidence of the important role the S mi play in the resistance of indigenous people against an economic and political system whose power to destroy all life on earth has reached a scale unprecedented in the history of humanity. The book contains interviews with Mari Boine, Harald Gaski, Ann-Kristin H kansson, Aslak Holmberg, Maxida M rak, Stefan Mikaelsson, May-Britt hman, Synn ve Persen, yvind Ravna, Niillas Somby, Anders Sunna, and Suvi West.