TY - BOOK ID - 100505191 TI - Bridging Divides AU - Overland, Indra, AU - Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel PY - 2012 SN - 9780857456670 0857456679 9780857456687 0857456687 1782389199 1299777260 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Sami (European people) KW - Lapons KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Conditions sociales KW - Politics and government. KW - Social conditions. KW - Laplanders KW - Lapps KW - Saam (European people) KW - Saame (European people) KW - Saami (European people) KW - Same (European people) KW - Samer (European people) KW - Samit (European people) KW - Arctic peoples KW - Ethnology KW - Finno-Ugrians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100505191 AB - The Sámi are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Sápmi, covers territory in Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. For the Nordic Sámi, the last decades of the twentieth century saw their indigenous rights partially recognized, a cultural and linguistic revival, and the establishment of Sámi parliaments. The Russian Sámi, however, did not have the same opportunities and were isolated behind the closed border until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This book examines the following two decades and the Russian Sámi's attempt to achieve a linguistic revival, to mend the Cold War scars, and to establish their own independent ethno-political organizations. ER -