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Self Determination In Sami People

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i Page 5 generation and to avoid all kind of assimilation or integration in the majority society. Self-determination allows the indigenous people to promote their traditional culture without any foreign influence. Self-determination can also be perceived to protect their traditional land from all kind of industry, mining, and energy or forestry projects that are destroyed the natural or cultural beauty of their traditional land. The state is also responsible for protecting the traditional land Sami land from all type of industrial revolution. The third aspect of self-determination for Sami the people has linked that the traditional land needs more protection. Self-determination to the Sami is that they have …show more content…

The state responsibility is to provide means for financing autonomy for Sami people to ensure that the Sami will take equal benefits from those industrial activities in the Sami territories. Sami people has given employment rights in mining, gas and oil and fishing industry in the areas where Sami are living in the majority. The State must also provide extra financial resources to Sami representative and organizations. The Sami fund in Sweden is providing financial aid that Sami people will be able to develop and increase their industrial activities. This kind of services will also partly compensate the Sami for past efforts of natural resources from the traditional territories. To economic self-determination Sami people are depended on tourism. Fishing and hunting industry in their traditional land. Social and cultural development and the right of …show more content…

To the section 121(4) of the Finish Constitution provides that the Sami shall be given cultural and linguistic autonomy within their residential area. The three northernmost municipalities in Finland Enontekio, Inari and Utsjoki and the Sami reindeer herding district Lapin Paliskunta in the municipality of Sodankyla are defined as the Sami homeland area by the provision of the Sami Act (Sami Act of Finland 1995). Under the section No:9 of the Sami Act, it becomes obligatory for the authority to negotiate on all important issues that influence the position of the Sami as an indigenous people. In the years 1988, some specific section on the Sami right was included in the constitution of Norway which guaranteed for Sami language, culture and society (Constitution of Norway). Section 110a of the state constitution confirmed the obligation of the state to step forward for the Sami to protect their language and developed their culture and tradition. The establishment of Sami Parliament in 1989 and the implementation of Norwegian constitution. Section 110a is important for the implementation of Sami rights cultural and economic self-determination. Section no 2-1 of the Sami Act provides that the Sami parliament mandate should include all question that the parliament considers

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