| Summary: | The article is combining historical facts with fiction to tell the history of salmon fishing and natural resources in the land of the Indigenous Sámi, Sábme. Sábme was and still is the core territory for the natural resource extractions providing the wealth of the colonial Swedish state since the establishment of the state in the 16th century. The silver, iron ore, the forest, hydropower, taken from here has made the state and its elites rich and wealthy. It is a colonial process, as much as any colonial project elsewhere in the world, yet the word “colonisation” has until recently seldom been used for analysing the relationships between the Swedish state and the Sámi territories. Salmon fishing was an important source of livelihood for the Sámi in the area. The fishing rights was as early as in the 14th century transferred to colonialist from the south and came to play a major importance in the creation of the wealth of Swedish noblemen, as well as of Uppsala University and the Church of Sweden. In 1960 the salmon fishing ended with the hydropower exploitations. Today there are no more any salmon here, they are stopped at the first hydropower station at Boden, close to the coast. Photo archival research work has been made by May-Britt Öhman. Work with the article has been supported by the research project Rivers, Resistance, Resilience: Sustainable Futures in Sápmi and in Other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories, led by Dr. May-Britt Öhman and financed by Formas, 2012-2015. Om arbetet med artikeln samt språkförklaringar Berättelsen levandegör med en blandning av fiktion och fakta historien om laxfisket och naturresurserna i samernas land, Sábme, som varit kärnan i det moderna Sveriges ‒ Svea rikes ‒ välstånd sedan staten etablerades på 1500-talet, samt även relationerna före detta. Det är malmen, skogen, vatten(kraften) som genom kolonisationen gjort den svenska staten Sverige rik. Såväl kyrkan som staten, inklusive utbildningsväsendet – universiteten ‒ har kunnat byggas på grundval av denna koloniala ...
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