The youth councils in Innlandet, Trøndelag, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark have produced the checklist in collaboration with the European Wergelands Center and the Narviksenteret Foundation.
The list is intended to be sent out to all municipalities and county municipalities and was presented during the event “Together towards unity”. Politicians should be able to use it to tick off planned measures against Sámi unity.
To make visible
– Measures must be taken so that the Sami are made visible in society and are not incited or harassed, says 18-year-old Thea Matilde Moldstad, from Innlandet, to NRK.
Actions that could be on the checklist include, for example:
☐ Has the municipality drawn up an action plan towards Sami unity?
☐ Do the schools work actively to prevent incitement, offensive behavior and hate speech?
Make situation visible
An important purpose of the list is, according to the youth councils, to make the situation of the Sami visible.
The environmentalist Lan Marie Berg tells NRK that the most important thing is that society acknowledges what has happened and that the politicians in the Storting understand what abuses have taken place.
– You don’t really understand how hard this hits and that what you say or do is really inappropriate, says Even Aleksander Hagen (Ap).
Interest on the Swedish side
Even on the Swedish side, there is hatred against the Sami. This was stated, among other things, in a report from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, last spring. There is evidence of both verbal assaults, face to face, and via phone and social media.
Arendeal Week is an event in Arendal in Norway, reminiscent of Almedal Week in Sweden.