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...
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crunicaliforniap:10.1525/curh.2024.123.851.95 2024-04-07T07:50:04+00:00 The Nordic Countries Face a Colonial Reckoning Andersen, Astrid Nonbo 2024 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 en eng University of California Press Current History volume 123, issue 851, page 95-100 ISSN 0011-3530 1944-785X History journal-article 2024 crunicaliforniap https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.851.95 2024-03-08T03:46:50Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland University of California Press Arctic Greenland Current History 123 851 95 100 |
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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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