Colonial Oppression's Alteration of Identity

• Main Author: Pedersen, Ellen-Marie Sørhus
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Ireland; Norway; Irish famine; Saami; Oppression; Identity; Violence; Religion; Pedersen; Nils; Kautokeino; Holmestrand; Sørhus; saami; sami
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/cord-work/id/1194

Famines may be a threat to the victims' own identity, therefore it is essential to establish a collective memory. In Ireland the potato famine had devastating effects on the Irish identity, much like the Sami situation in Norway, where they suffered under religious oppression resulting in famin...