Hunting in the Arctic Circle - The Sami vs the Swedish State | Close up - The Current Affairs Documentary | DW
Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/3qfIy For the Sami people, the Supreme Court ruling was an historic moment - the culmination of a decade-long legal battle. Yet it is one that has sparked outrage among some non-indigenous hunters and anglers. Sweden’s top judges conferred exclusive fishing and small game hunting rights to the Sami in the village of Girjas Sameby, persuaded by their argument that Sami people had been hunting, fishing and grazing reindeer here since time immemorial until the Swedish state came and took away more and more land. Some 20,000 to 40,000 Sami people live in Swe...
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