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The Sami are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Sapmi, spreads over the territories of four states: Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. For the Sami of the Nordic countries, the last decades of the 20th century were a renaissance of sorts: their indigenous rights were partially recognized, they experienced a cultural and linguistic revival and Sami parliaments were established. The Soviet Sami, on the other hand, had little opportunity to develop independent ethno-political organizations and were isolated from their ethnic kin across the closed border. This book tells the story of what happened in the two decades that followed: the Russian Sami attempted a linguistic revival, sought to mend the Cold War scars across Sapmi, and established their own independent ethno-political organizations.

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• Full title: Bridging Divides
• Subtitle: Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sami
• Author: Indra Overland, Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 162
• EAN: 9780857456670
• ISBN: 0857456679
• ID: 04742666
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 157 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2012

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