Liberating S疳mi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781629637129)

The S疥i, who have inhabited Europe's far north for thousands of years, are often referred to as the continent's "forgotten people." With S疳mi, their traditional homeland, divided between four nation-states--Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia--the S疥i have experienced the profound oppression and discrimination that characterize the fate of indigenous people worldwide: their lands have been confiscated, their beliefs and values attacked, their communities and families torn apart. Yet the S疥i have shown incredible resilience, defending their identity and their territories and retaining an important social and ecological voice--even if many, progressives and leftists included, refuse to listen.

Liberating S疳mi is a stunning journey through S疳mi and includes in-depth interviews with S疥i artists, activists, and scholars boldly standing up for the rights of their people. In this beautifully illustrated work, Gabriel Kuhn, author of over a dozen books and our most fascinating interpreter of global social justice movements, aims to raise awareness of the ongoing fight of the S疥i for justice and self-determination. The first accessible English-language introduction to the history of the S疥i people and the first account that focuses on their political resistance, this provocative work gives irrefutable evidence of the important role the S疥i play in the resistance of indigenous people against an economic and political system whose power to destroy all life on earth has reached a scale unprecedented in the history of humanity.

The book contains interviews with Mari Boine, Harald Gaski, Ann-Kristin H虧ansson, Aslak Holmberg, Maxida M舐ak, Stefan Mikaelsson, May-Britt ﾖhman, Synn ve Persen, yvind Ravna, Niillas Somby, Anders Sunna, and Suvi West.