Safe Haven for an Indigenous Fugitive: Indigenous Internationalism and Illegal Protests

• Published in: American Indian Culture and Research Journal
• Main Author: Crossen, Jonathan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Niillas Somby; Sámi; asylum; North American indigenous groups; 1980s; Norwegian government; Alta-Kautokeino Hydroelectric Project; dam; World Council of Indigenous Peoples; Kautokeino
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1570s5sx; https://escholarship.org/content/qt1570s5sx/qt1570s5sx.pdf; https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.40.2.crossen

In investigating the case of Niillas Somby, a Sámi activist who sought asylum with North American indigenous groups in the 1980s, this article finds it to be a grassroots exception to the how “indigenous internationalism” is usually understood: that is, formal bodies that support indigenous rights t...