The Nordic Countries Face a Colonial Reckoning

• Published in: Current History
• Main Author: Andersen, Astrid Nonbo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 2024
• Subjects: History; Arctic; Greenland
• 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

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.