Abstract
This chapter addresses the legal protection of the Sami as Indigenous peoples in Norway and thus the laws that protect Sami language, culture and way of life or, in other words, Sami law. The chapter describes the development of Sami law and Sami legal protections over the past 30 years, with a primary focus on recent developments and current legal status. Through this review, the chapter summarises the latest advances in international law related to the Sami, the process of surveying and recognising land rights in Finnmark (the most central Sami area in Norway) and the latest amendments to the Reindeer Husbandry Act. Questions about the right to the usage, management and control of natural resources, or “land and water”, in the Sami area of Norway therefore occupy a central place in this examination.
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