Law and Aboriginal Reindeer Herding in Sami Norway

Bjarne Melkevik, « Law and Aboriginal Reindeer Herding in Sami Norway », dans Gerard Duhaime, dir, Sustainable Food Security in the Arctic: State of Knowledge, Edmonton, CCI Press (University of Alberta), 2001, 189 (Également reproduit par le GÉTIC, coll. Recherche Université Laval, 2000).

The legal framework of reindeer herding activities of the Sami people of Norway is used to consider food security and legal access tO natural resources. A description of how the Sami became 'the reindeer people,' and how herding became their main source of self-identification, sets the stage to analyze how herding activities have changed into an Aboriginal industry. A Iast section of the paper is devoted to the economic and ecological problems related to reindeer herding. In the final analysis, it is argued that it must be the responsibility of Sami political institutions, the Samiting, to make choices concerning the future of Sami reindeer herding activities in Norway.

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