Conference paper
Fighting Climate Change and Forest Fires – From a Sámi Perspective
In collaboration with co-researcher Sámi journalist Liz-Marie Nilsen
NAISA
Aotearoa/New Zealand
June 2019

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Fighting Climate Change and Forest Fires – From a Sámi Perspective as part of the panel Sámi Perspectives on Climate Change, Green Colonialism, Forest Fires, Industrial Exploitations, and Food Sovereignty . Chair: May-Britt Öhman, Uppsala University and Luleå University of Technology.

In the summer of 1959 there was a large forest fire at Turberget, Jåhkåmåhkke. Palle Erixon from Kilkok, 14 years old at the time, was one of the fire fighters. In the summer of 2018, we interviewed him at the same site. He shared with how they fought the wildfire.

Supported by Indigenous Climate Change Studies FORMAS Dnr 2017-01923, lett av Fil.Dr May-Britt Öhman, Uppsala universitet.

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