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Lavvo - traditional dwellings of the Sami people - set up in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament, in October 2023, to protest against windfarms installed on herding areas for their reindeer. Photo: © Gorm Kallestad / NTB / AFP

Europa,

In Oslo, on Eidsvoll square outside of the Norwegian Storting, the Parliament of Norway, a Lavvo – a traditional temporary Sami dwelling – was put up on November 12, 2024. An unusual gesture by the Storting, which signified an opening to dialogue. During the day, the space was visited by indigenous and minority representatives, members of the Storting, and people passing by.

Meanwhile inside the Storting, parliamentarians were debating how to follow up on the report and recommendations for reconciliation delivered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on June 1, 2023. And it was in conclusion of this debate that the Storting issued a formal apology to the Sámi, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns:

“With this the Storting apologizes for the active role that previous Stortings have taken in the Norwegianization politics, and recognizes its responsibility for the consequences which these policies have had for groups as well as individuals”, Svein Harberg (Høyre/The Conservative Party) said on behalf of the Storting.…  Seguir leyendo »

In Norway, the majority population has little or no knowledge of the language, culture and history of indigenous peoples and national minorities, according to the report by the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. © Olivier Morin / AFP

Europa,

At midday on June 1, Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chairman Dagfinn Høybråten handed over the final report to Norwegian parliament president Masud Gharahkhani at an official ceremony in Stortinget, Oslo. An hour later, only a few 100 metres away, leader of Kvääniteatteri (the Kven Theatre) Frank Jørstad took stage at the National Theatre to give the first reading aloud of the full TRC report, nearly 700-pages long. This reading took more than 35 hours and could be followed live on the national broadcaster NRK and listening posts around the country.

But other than these two events, the Norwegian TRC has rarely made national headlines in the nearly five years it has been working.…  Seguir leyendo »

The president of the Sámi parliament speaks on March 2, 2022 in Oslo to demonstrators from this indigenous Norwegian people who came to protest against the non-application of a Supreme Court decision concerning a wind farm built on traditional reindeer herding land. © Olivier Morin / AFP

Europa,

On March 6th, the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) conducted a larger hearing in the Norwegian Parliament with representatives of various parts of Indigenous peoples and national minorities, the Sami, Kven, Forest Finns and Norwegian Finns. The hearing coincides with intense protests that took place in Oslo last week, when Sami activists protested against outspoken inertia in the Norwegian state administration to act upon the verdict reached by the Norwegian Supreme Court in a case about a windfarms project in a Sami reindeer herding area. Sami activists called it a crisis of trust. A crisis which was also among the key concerns voiced in the TRC hearing.…  Seguir leyendo »