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Vem är same?
I tidigare lagar uttryckte staten att endast de som hade renar och ägnade

sig åt renskötsel var samer. Sedan Sametingslagens tillkomst är nu språket

identitetsmarkör. Rösträtt i sametinget kan den person få som har en

förälder som varit upptagen i röstlängden eller som talar eller har talat

samiska i sitt eget hem, hos sina föräldrar eller hos mor- och farföräldrar.

Det finns många sätt att definiera sig som same.
Ytterst är det ett val som varje person själv måste göra

Sametingslag 1992:1433
2 § Med same avses i denna lag den som anser sig vara same och

1. gör sannolikt att han eller hon har eller har haft samiska som språk i hemmet, eller

2. gör sannolikt att någon av hans eller hennes föräldrar, far- eller morföräldrar har eller har haft samiska

som språk i hemmet, eller

3. har en förälder som är eller har varit upptagen i röstlängd till Sametinget, utan att länsstyrelsen därefter

beslutat annat.

Sápmi
Sápmi eller Sameland är ett landområde som sträcker sig över den norra
delen av Nordkalotten, från ryska Kolahalvön i öster till det svenska
landskapet Dalarna i söder.

Sápmi som begrepp innefattar både området Sápmi och samerna som
folk. Totalt talas nio samiska språk. Samtliga finns på FN:s lista över
hotade språk.

En vanlig uppskattning i dag är att det finns 80.000 - 100.000 samer
i Sápmi, varav ca 20 000 i Sverige.

Who is Sámi?
In previous laws the state considered only those who owned reindeer

and were engaged in reindeer herding, to be Sámi. Since the

implementation of the Sámi Parliament Act, it is now language which

is the identity marker. Anyone who has a parent who is or has been listed

on the electoral register to the Sámi Parliament, or who speaks or has

spoken Sámi at home or whose parents or grandparents speak or have

spoken Sámi at home, is eligible to vote in elections to the Sámi

Parliament.

There are many ways to define oneself as Sámi.
Ultimately, it is a choice that individuals must make for themselves.

The Sámi Parliament Act 1992:1433
Section 2. For the purposes of this Act, a Sámi is a person who considers himself or herself to be Sámi and

1. provides support for the assumption that he or she speaks or has spoken the Sámi language at home, or

2. provides support for the assumption that one of his or her parents or grandparents speaks or has spoken

the Sámi language at home, or

3. has a parent who is or has been listed on the electoral register to the Sámi Parliament and the County

Administrative Board has not subsequently decided otherwise.

Sápmi
Sápmi or Sámi Land, is a land area that extends across the northern
part of the ’Cap of the North’ (Nordkalotten), from the Russian Kola
Peninsula in the east to the Swedish province of Dalarna in the south.

The term Sápmi refers both to the Sápmi land area and to the Sámi
people. A total of nine Sami languages are spoken. All are on the
United Nations list of endangered languages.

A common estimate is that there are 80,000-100,000 Sámi people
in Sápmi, including approximately 20,000 living in Sweden.

In the exhibition, Anders Sunna and Michiel Brouwer raise questions
about Swedish Sámi policy, racism and exploitation. Both artists are
passionate about communicating what has often been silenced.
They want to challenge, provoke and give a more profound view
of historical and current conflicts.

Anders Sunna’s paintings tell a deeply personal and painful sámi
family history, about relocations and oppressions that have continued
over 40 years in Tornedalen – the Torne Valley. In contrast, Michiel
Brouwer’s clinical photographs are powerful reminders of Sámi
history. Pictures of how people were used as tools in the scientific
theories of eugenics are shown along contemporary documentation
and portraits of the Sunna family’s struggle.

For the exhibition,