The Saami Movement, the Norwegian Labour Party and Saami Rights

by Henry Minde

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION.
2. THE PERIOD OF ACTIVE NORWEGIANIZATION
2.1. The first wave of ethnopolitical mobilization.
2.2. Attitudes in Minority policies.
2.3. Local Saami Political Opposition.
2.4. Rejection in the Party Leadership
2.5. The exposed cultural and economic situation of the Saami.
3. THE POST-WAR PERIOD
3.1. Ethnopolitical Revitalization.
3.2. Welfare as a Norwegianization Motive on the Local Level.
3.3. The Alta Question Considered as a Fight for the Right to be the Supplier of Premises in Saami Political Matters.
3.4. The Ambivalent Norwegian Minority Policy
4. Concluding Remarks

1984 © Henry Minde
Institute of Social Sciences
University of Tromsø

Paper presented to the 16th Congress of Historical Sciences, Stuttgart 1985 and published in L'image de l'autre: étrangers, minoritaires, marginaux, vol. 2, (ed.) d'Hélène Ahrweiler. Stuttgart 1984.

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