Oxford LibGuides: European &amp; Scandinavian/Nordic countries: legal resources: Scandinavian first peoples

First peoples in Scandinavia

Inuit of Greenland
IWGIA overview
Sámi People
IWGIA overview
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on the human rights situation of the Sámi people in the Sápmi region of Norway, Sweden and Finland 2016
Download from official UN Library A/HRC/33/42/Add.3

Sweden: Act Concerning the Right to Use the Sami Language in Dealings with Public Authorities and Courts (1999)

Discrimination of the Sámi– the rights of the Sámi from a discrimation perspective
Free resource. Pdf of 2008 report by the Swedish Equality Ombudsman
Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
Free resource. From International Labor Organisation website. Norway ratified Convention No. 169 in 1990, which led to the implementation on the Finnmark Act (see link below).
Case study on the Finnmark Act
ILO publication available as free pdf. ILO publication: 'Research on Best Practices for the Implementation of the Principles of ILO Convention No. 169- The Finnmark Act (Norway), Case Study #3
Reindeer Husbandry Act (Finland) From Finlex, online database of up-to-date legislative and other judicial information in Finland. Finlex owned by Finland's Ministry of Justice. Similar laws on reindeer herding can be found in Sweden and Norway.
Sweden: Supreme Court Recognizes Sámi Indigenous Group's Exclusive Right to Confer Hunting and Fishing Rights in Sami Area
Article on case: (Feb. 14, 2020) On January 23, 2020, the Swedish Supreme Court held that the Sámi group “Girjas Sameby” (literally “Girjas Sami Village”) had an exclusive right to fishing and hunting in Girjas reindeer-herding areas on the basis of urminnes hävd (their presence there from time immemorial). Not only can the Sami village confer hunting and fishing rights on others without the Swedish state’s permission, but the state does not have a right to confer these rights. (Högsta Domstolen [Swedish Supreme Court] (Jan. 23, 2020) Case No. T 853-18 (Decision).)
Norway: Supreme Court Rules Windmill Park in Sami Area Violates Indigenous Rights
Open Access. Article on 11 October 2021 case in Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor with link to judgment in Norwegian

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