10. "People are so comfortable in Stockholm - can't go a week without electricity"
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Per-Eric Kuoljok, outside his house in Ruoktu, where no other families live.
He talks about how he values nature.
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SVT Sápmi met in Per-Eric Kuoljok in Ruoktu outside Gällivare.
He had to give his view at the UN environmental meeting in Montreal, Canada.
The audience became very interested - probably a lot because he made a comparison with how Stockholmers live.
9. The Vice President of the Sami Council had Z on the guitar - the collaboration is stopped
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Christina Henriksen, president of the Sami Council, about the decision to stop cooperation with the Russian organizations.
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Just weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine, a picture appeared of Sami Council Vice President Ivan Matrehkin wearing the Russian Z sign on his guitar.
The picture led to the Sami Council breaking all cooperation with the organizations on the Russian side for the time being.
8. The scientists were fooled by the whales - chased poo to Russia
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Keno Ferter, researcher at the Norwegian Sea Institute, during the research project where nothing went as planned.
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A research project on the Norwegian side did not go at all as planned.
The largemouth bass, which the researchers had equipped with a transmitter, was eaten by a whale.
7. Reindeer rangers were forced to move in after the accident - the police never came
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Here the reindeer herders are forced to direct the traffic as the police never came to the scene of the accident.
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Easter Day became a tragic story for the reindeer herders who were in the process of a transport from Nordmaling and inland.
After a traffic accident, they were forced to stand for hours and divert traffic themselves.
The police never showed up.
6. She has a two-hour drive to the nearest store: "It's dark"
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Annika Åkerlund in Kvikkjokk has 12 miles to the nearest shop.
Now she demands that the municipality change the decision that allows them to have groceries delivered home once a week, as they previously had.
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Annika Åkerlund, 65, and her husband have two hours to the nearest grocery store from their home in Kvikkjokk.
This after the municipality suddenly stopped home delivery of food.
5. Alarm from the indigenous peoples of Russia: We are being forcibly recruited for the war
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In the clip: Bert Sundström on Russian forced recruitment in areas populated mainly by minorities.
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Sami and other indigenous peoples in Russia are forcibly recruited for the war in Ukraine.
The statistics also indicate that minority people in the country are overrepresented in terms of which soldiers died in the war.
The news made in the weekly program "15 minutes from Sápmi" engaged both readers and viewers.
4. Here the sheep graze in the middle of the residential area - the neighbors protest
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See the sheep walking around and grazing in the middle of the residential area in Klimpfjäll.
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In the village of Klimpfjäll there are villas, cottages, hotels, restaurants - and then the sheep that graze freely in the middle of the community.
The traditional animal husbandry has pleased many.
But some have become so upset that they have set out on the sheep with blue spray paint.
3. Would swear allegiance to Queen Elisabeth – called her a colonizer
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Here, the indigenous senator Lidia Thorp refuses to swear allegiance to the queen a few weeks before her death.
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe would repeat the oath of allegiance for members of Australia's parliament.
Then she raised her fist in the air and called the queen a colonizer.
2. Hilje, 1, was subjected to racist slurs: "You don't say that"
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Tanja Nordfjell and son Hilje.
In the clip, you see the babysitter Sara Hermansson tell about how Hilje was called a profanity at the conference facility.
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Hilje is 11 months old and crawled around the conference facility.
Then came the comments from two employees at the site.
- One of them leaned forward and said little bastard, says Saara Hermansson, who was babysitting the boy when it happened.
1. Leif gave Daniel all his reindeer: "This can't be true"
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Daniel couldn't believe it was true when the phone rang.
A person unknown to him wanted to give him all his reindeer.
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The happy news about how Leif Lundberg gave his reindeer mark to Daniel Barruk aroused great interest both in Sápmi and around Sweden.
With more than 200,000 readers, it is by far the most read article on SVT Sápmi's site to date.