Challenges to Reindeer, Reciprocity, and Indigenous Sami Sovereignty Amidst the Impact of Green Energy Developments

• Main Author: Heikka-Huber, Lisa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt 2024
• Subjects: Food Soveeignty; Indigenous rights; Green energy; Energy development; Windfarms; Wind energy development; Industrialization; Cultural heritage practices; Conservation and green energy; Reindeer herding; Sami people; Sami sovereignty; Cultural History; Energy Policy; Environmental Studies; Food Studies; International and Area Studies; Natural Resources and Conservation; Oil; Gas; and Energy; Other Political Science; Scandinavian Studies; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Sustainability; Arctic; Kola Peninsula; Norway; Roland; Climate change; Fennoscandia; kola peninsula; saami; sami
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ideafest/vol7/iss1/5; https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/context/ideafest/article/1144/viewcontent/52_Challenges_to_Reindeeer.pdf

The Indigenous people of Europe known as the Sami, (also spelled Saami) many of whom live throughout the world, have continued to maintain active nomadic communities today as their ancestors did. A wide spanning region of Northern Europe’s Arctic Zone or Sampi often referred to as Fennoscandia, en...