In mid-February, some 50 representatives of the reindeer out with an alarm article - "The wolf is valued higher than Sami! "Despite the high tone of the article contains many thoughtful comments.
Samer is not the same as reindeer herders. Only a hundred Sami live today as professional reindeer herders, Most seasonal workers. other Sami, 20 000–40 000 people, support themselves in other industries.
Today reindeer herding was created in the latter half of the 1800s. Then, the nomadic reindeer become unprofitable.
The Swedish authorities' solution to the problem was to make the reindeer to a hereditary monopoly of the largest reindeer owners who were left in the industry.
The solution meant that all small renbrukare from the mountains to the coast was stripped of his right to renbruk and its natural connection to the Sami culture and Sami policy. Ursamerna in Vapsten is a case that arose in connection with the so-called Nordmaling goal.
By 1886 years of reindeer herding cooperatives became reindeer a planned economy, a relic that lingered through increasing subsidies.
Now it costs about reindeer 500 million annually in support, destroy the natural values of a couple of billion, cause 2.000 car crashes, Crack herders physically and mentally, causing cruelty, displaces profitable industries.
The most serious is perhaps today's herding infringe on other citizens private ownership (cf. Bo Norberg: Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, 2011). It mentioned the work is an overview of the recent objections by knowledgeable critics systems (Mats Hägglöf, Berth Hägglund, East Lundberg, Henrik Sandstrom, Lennart Stenman).
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Källa; Norran