The Northern Calotte people will have a change in the Sami policy
It is almost 4 years since I was elected representative of the Northern Calotte people from southern Norway. Before the 2021 election, I wrote a chronicle where I reflected on the following: Is it that more than me have seen a Sami Parliament that has not played an active role in preventing emigration from the north?
A Sami Parliament that has counteracted initiative that would probably have provided many new much -needed jobs? Maybe some have also registered the silence from the Sami Parliament to cases that do not deal with the reindeer husbandry industry?
The fact that the Labor Party at the Sami Parliament has, in the last period, mainly been governed by the dictatorship of the majority has meant that we have been alone on our policy based on community building and equality.
At the Sami Parliament, the special interests control. My reflection of the policy that has so far been brought from the majority of the Sami Parliament is that it has been divisive. The reason, as I see it, is a majority that has been governed by special interests. It has been the reindeer husbandry industry and nature conservation interests that have set the agenda for the policy that has been implemented.
What if the Storting were to give the fishing boats and motorists responsibility for fishing resources and transport? With such politics, there is naturally not room for much other than the only industry NSR is for, namely the protest industry!
The protesters often come from densely populated urban areas where they themselves have access to educational institutions, hospitals, well -functioning collective services and workplaces, but thus demonstrate against activity that could secure the Sami locals the same goods they themselves have at an arm’s length. This is a paradox, you ask me.
The majority’s policy in the Sami Parliament has also pushed the majority of the Sami people into a corner when, in their consultations with the government, they have had the following principle: « All that is mine is mine but yours can we negotiate»(John F. Kennedy). This is a very little constructive line in my view.
We have to pull the load together!
We in the Northern Calotte people do not believe that Sami culture and social life are a closed organism that can survive exclusively in the 700. The millions The Sami Parliament is granted annually as well as the cultural contribution of the reindeer husbandry industry, unfortunately.
The Sami culture and we as a group of people are dependent on viable societies that we are also part of, so we must draw together with municipal councils, county councils and government with the common goal of stopping the relocation by creating jobs. We need to stay and live bright.
The Northern Calotte people want a change in the Sami policy that has been led to a lifetime. Therefore, our ambition is to win the 2025 election by a pure majority. Now it remains to be seen if voters want the same.
