Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life
- Written by Georgia de Leeuw, Resercher, Lund University

“There is so much intrusion from all sides and corners,” a Sami reindeer herder tells me, 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...







