Abstract:
A model for Indigenous representation?
On September 14th two elections were held in Norway. One was for the national government and the other was for the Samediggi, or Sami Parliament, the representative body for Norway’s Indigenous minority, the Sami. In due course the King of Norway, Harald V, will open the next session of the Storting or Parliament. Shortly after, wearing the same regalia and with much the same pomp and circumstance, he will open the Samediggi in its impressive building in the town of Karasjok (Karasjohka) in the Arctic Circle and the heart of Sami territory. The symbolism of this parallel ceremony is just one of many ways in which the Norwegians acknowledge the importance of the status of the Sami representative body within the political system.
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