Governance 

 

  

Sámi Council

The goal of the Sámi Council is to protect and develop the Sámi people's economic, cultural, linguistic and social rights and the right to a livelihood.

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Sámi Conference

The Sámi Conference deals with and decides on proposals made by the Sámi Council, and it approves reports.

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The Finmark Act

The Finnmark Act provides that the Sámi people, through prolonged use of land and water, have acquired rights to land in Finnmark.

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"We, Sámi are one people, united in our own culture,
language and history, living in areas which,
since time immemorial and up to
historical times, we alone inhabited and utilized".

     Sámi Political Program 1986/Sámi Council statements