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The rocks will echo our sorrow : the forced displacement of the northern Sámi

The rocks will echo our sorrow : the forced displacement of the northern Sámi

Book 2024

"In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Elin Anna Labba travels to northern Norway and Sweden, the lost homeland of her ancestors, to tell of the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories, photographs, letters, and joik lyrics, she gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon an...