Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community

• Main Author: Magnani, Natalia
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Peterhouse College 2018
• Subjects: memory; Sami; practical knowledge; Finland; Indigenous articulations; materiality; Arctic; Sevettijärvi; Northern Finland; sami; Sámi; Skolt Sámi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.30980; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283612

This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new...