On January 23 this year, the Supreme Court granted Girja's Sami village the right to allow small game hunting and fishing in the Sami village area above the cultivation limit. A historical judgment that is currently difficult to say exactly what it will mean for different Sami villages.

"Time for the state to clarify the Sami legal situation"

Now the plenary of the Sami Parliament has made a unanimous statement. The Sami Parliament notes that it is high time for the Swedish state to address the Sami legal issues after the Girjas judgment.

- Now is the time for the state to clarify the Sami legal situation, says Paulus Kuoljok, chairman of the Sami Parliament.

The Sami Parliament wants all parliamentary parties to participate

The statement states, among other things, that "the Sámi Parliament considers that a parliamentary inquiry must be set up with the aim of creating a modern Sámi policy and the adaptation legislation in Sámi legal issues to ancient, customary, current jurisprudence and that the Sámi people are both a people and a indigenous people. the rights that come with it. "

The plenary of the Sami Parliament also wants all parliamentary parties as well as a broad Sami representation to participate in the investigation.

- We expect this is not just Girja's concern. Without this, there is a question that is all about Sápmi, says Paulus Kuoljok, President and President of the Sami Parliament.