{"id":8458,"date":"2020-01-24T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2021-04-17T18:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:51:34","slug":"the-guardian-indigenous-reindeer-herders-win-hunting-rights-battle-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/the-guardian-indigenous-reindeer-herders-win-hunting-rights-battle-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GUARDIAN: Indigenous reindeer herders win hunting rights battle in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8459\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8459\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4939.jpg 620w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4939-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4939-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sami woman watches over a reindeer herd near Dikanaess village in Sweden. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand\/AFP\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A group of indigenous reindeer herders has won a 30-year battle to take back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing across a swathe of Arctic\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sweden\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Sweden<\/a>, in an important ruling for the Sami people\u2019s struggle to control their ancestral land.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s supreme court ruled on Thursday that hunting rights lost in 1993 should be restored to Girjas Sameby, a Sami \u201cvillage\u201d or \u201cdistrict\u201d whose herders graze reindeer over a 19-mile (30km) strip of land stretching from the Norwegian border towards the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\">\u201cThis is a historic victory that strengthens our rights over our traditional lands,\u201d Matti Blind-Berg, the district\u2019s chairman, told the Guardian. \u201cThis is a blow for the Swedish state, which will hopefully mean they have to respect Sami rights.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Sami, who speak a group of languages related to Finnish, have herded reindeer across northern Scandinavia and on Russia\u2019s Kola peninsula for thousands of years. The five judges ruled unanimously that rights stemming from the Sami\u2019s historical use of the territory superseded more recent rights granted by the Swedish state and its agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/23\/indigenous-reindeer-herders-sami-win-hunting-rights-battle-sweden\">her<\/a>e (The Guardian, 23.01.2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of indigenous reindeer herders has won a 30-year battle to take back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing across a swathe of Arctic\u00a0Sweden, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":8460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1096],"tags":[3216,3252],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-en","tag-saami-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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