Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life

Georgia de Leeuw, Lund University “There is so much intrusion from all sides and corners,” , reacting to a government decision to grant a mining permit in Gállok in the Sápmi region in Sweden’s far north. Sápmi is the communal land of the Indigenous Sami people. Their land ranges through northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This particular reindeer herding community in Sápmi has already been affected by expansion of huge levels of in