The Sá mi are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Sá pmi, covers territory in Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. For the Nordic Sá mi, the last decades of the twentieth century saw their indigenous rights partially recognized, a cultural and linguistic revival, and the establishment of Sá mi parliaments. The Russian Sá mi, however, did not have the same opportunities and were isolated behind the closed border until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This book examines the following two decades and the Russian Sá mi's attempt to achieve a linguistic revival, to mend the Cold War scars, and to establish their own independent ethno-political organizations.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Who are the Russian Sá mi?
Chapter 3. Lost Land, Broken Culture
Chapter 4. Language Revival
Chapter 5. Educational Re-orientation
Chapter 6. Political Representation
Chapter 7. Conclusions
Appendix I: Glossary and Abbreviations
Appendix II: Sá mi population estimates
Appendix III: Nuclear bomb testing on the Kola Peninsula
Appendix IV: Inter-ethnic relations
Appendix V: Language
Appendix VI: Three Intertwined Social Problems
Appendix VII: The complexity of ethnic identity
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