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Challenges To Reindeer, Reciprocity, And Indigenous Sami Sovereignty Amidst The Impact Of Green Energy Developments, Lisa Heikka-Huber Mar 2024

Challenges To Reindeer, Reciprocity, And Indigenous Sami Sovereignty Amidst The Impact Of Green Energy Developments, Lisa Heikka-Huber

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Cal Poly Humboldt

The Indigenous people of Europe known as the Sami, (also spelled Saami) many of whom live throughout the world, have continued to maintain active nomadic communities today as their ancestors did. A wide spanning region of Northern Europe’s Arctic Zone or Sampi often referred to as Fennoscandia, encompasses four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula (Roland & Löffler, 2012). The nomadic Sami people follow the migration pathways of their reindeer herds through the wilderness bi-annually. This paper will discuss many perspectives, including the battle Sami people and other Indigenous communities have endured while combating green energy development from …


Georg Brandes And Fin De Siècle Scandinavia As A Cultural Semiperiphery, Stefan Nygård Oct 2022

Georg Brandes And Fin De Siècle Scandinavia As A Cultural Semiperiphery, Stefan Nygård

Artl@s Bulletin

The article centres on the practice of cultural mediation and core-periphery dynamics in Scandinavian cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. In this period, Copenhagen functioned as a gateway in the circulation of ideas and cultural goods to and from the region, as did individual actors and cultural institutions in Denmark. Similarly, Scandinavia as a whole occupied a transitional position in global intellectual space. With extensive intellectual networks and a strategic role in the literary traffic to and from Scandinavia, the critic and intellectual Georg Brandes provides a starting point for exploring core- periphery relations.


No Nazis In Valhalla: Understanding The Use (And Misuse) Of Nordic Cultural Markers In Third Reich Era Germany, Lena Nighswander Jun 2020

No Nazis In Valhalla: Understanding The Use (And Misuse) Of Nordic Cultural Markers In Third Reich Era Germany, Lena Nighswander

International ResearchScape Journal

While medieval concepts are frequently used as a means for the general public to understand emerging global political institutions around the world, they also have immense capability to be purposely misused by political groups due to the generally vague and misguided understanding of these concepts by the masses. At one core of these movements is the legacy of Vikings and the misrepresentation of their history by far-right political groups, especially in mid-20th century Europe, in order to push a fictitious agenda of a prosperous, all-white race of seafaring warriors. Through the appropriation of medieval Old Norse imagery and mythology, …


Disappearing Swedes, Case 2: Carl Anders Carlsson, Martha J. Garrett Phd, Cg Dec 2018

Disappearing Swedes, Case 2: Carl Anders Carlsson, Martha J. Garrett Phd, Cg

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Who Is The New Sag Editor?, Geoff Morris Dec 2018

Who Is The New Sag Editor?, Geoff Morris

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


News From The Swenson Center: The Swedish Immigrant Trail Game, Elisabeth Thorsell Dec 2018

News From The Swenson Center: The Swedish Immigrant Trail Game, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Example #57 Dec 2018

Handwriting Example #57

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Vol. 38 No. 4 Dec 2018

Full Issue Vol. 38 No. 4

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


What Happened In Sweden In The 1600s?, Elisabeth Thorsell Dec 2018

What Happened In Sweden In The 1600s?, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


A New Genealogical Society In Sweden, Annelie Jonsson Dec 2018

A New Genealogical Society In Sweden, Annelie Jonsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


A Little Sag History, Elisabeth Thorsell Dec 2018

A Little Sag History, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Bits & Pieces Dec 2018

Bits & Pieces

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Literal Heritage Of The Vikings, Ebba Wallin Fogelqvist Dec 2018

The Literal Heritage Of The Vikings, Ebba Wallin Fogelqvist

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Australian And U.S. Family Connections, Elisabeth Thorsell Dec 2018

Australian And U.S. Family Connections, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Coat Of Arms -- A Symbol Of The Family, Nils William Olsson Phd, Fasg Dec 2018

The Coat Of Arms -- A Symbol Of The Family, Nils William Olsson Phd, Fasg

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Sag Workshop Group Picture 2018 Dec 2018

The Sag Workshop Group Picture 2018

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Solution #57 Dec 2018

Handwriting Solution #57

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Dec 2018

Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Genealogical Queries Dec 2018

Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Last Page Dec 2018

The Last Page

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Interesting Web Sites Dec 2018

Interesting Web Sites

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Example #56 Sep 2018

Handwriting Example #56

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Swedish-American Church Records -- An Addendum, Jill Seaholm Sep 2018

Swedish-American Church Records -- An Addendum, Jill Seaholm

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Catastrophe In The Mountains, Monica Fogelqvist Sep 2018

The Catastrophe In The Mountains, Monica Fogelqvist

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


News From The Swenson Center: Summer Intern Shelby Tells About Her Work, Shelby Jensen Sep 2018

News From The Swenson Center: Summer Intern Shelby Tells About Her Work, Shelby Jensen

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Bits & Pieces Sep 2018

Bits & Pieces

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Solution #56 Sep 2018

Handwriting Solution #56

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Disappearing Swedes, Case 1: J.F. Waestrom, Martha Garrett Cg Sep 2018

Disappearing Swedes, Case 1: J.F. Waestrom, Martha Garrett Cg

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Vol. 38 No. 3 Sep 2018

Full Issue Vol. 38 No. 3

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Old Picture, Laurene Wenstrand Sep 2018

The Old Picture, Laurene Wenstrand

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.