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‘The same struggles as 100 years ago’: exhibition highlights lives of Sami people in Sweden

In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes and the spectre of encroaching industry, Turi wanted his 1910 book Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sami) to set the record straight about the lives of Europe's only recognised Indigenous people.

‘The same struggles as 100 years ago’: exhibition highlights lives of Sami people in Sweden

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In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes and the spectre of encroaching industry, Turi wanted his 1910 book Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sami) to set the record straight about the lives of Europe's only recognised Indigenous people.

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In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes and the spectre of encroaching industry, Turi wanted his 1910 book Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sami) to set the record straight about the lives of Europe's only recognised Indigenous people.

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