Sweden: Church issues official apology to Sami community


A Sami herder in the midst of his herd of reindeer.  The Sami are the last indigenous people in Europe.

At the end of November, the Church of Sweden, in a ceremony at Uppsala Cathedral, for the first time made a formal apology to the Sami community. The government, for its part, will set up a ” truth commission To come back to the discrimination suffered by the Sami, reindeer herders and the last indigenous people in Europe. At the start of the 20th century, Sami children were forcibly educated in nomadic schools, race theorists measured their skulls, graves were looted … The trauma is such that many Sami have hidden their origins from their children. and grandchildren, who are rediscovering them today.

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