The Nordic Countries Face a Colonial Reckoning
In recent years, all four Scandinavian countries have been urged to reckon with their histories of dominion over and injustices committed against Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Finnic-speaking minorities on their territories. Within the past six years, truth commissions and historical inquiries have...
| Published in: | Current History |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2024
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.851.95 https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article-pdf/123/851/95/811059/curh.2024.123.851.95.pdf |
| Summary: | In recent years, all four Scandinavian countries have been urged to reckon with their histories of dominion over and injustices committed against Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Finnic-speaking minorities on their territories. Within the past six years, truth commissions and historical inquiries have been set up in all four. With a special focus on public history and different parts of the former Danish colonial realm, this article examines both the long-term and short-term histories of injustices in Scandinavia and Greenland, and how indigenous and minority representatives have pushed governments and parliaments to act. |
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