Abstract
In this chapter, I recall parts of the history of a specific stretch of the Lule River Valley, downstream of Jokkmokk, upstream of the city of Luleå – Luleju or Julevu, and place it in a larger historical and political context. Remembering a livelihood that was, and still is, a self-sufficient way of life – living from nature, hunting, fishing, herding reindeer, collecting vegetables, and most importantly, depending on good relations with other humans, animals, waters, and lands – is as political as are the attempts to make us forget. With this chapter, I am challenging a settler colonial state-imposed and reproduced amnesia, in which Sámi history and culture, as well as the Swedish–Sámi historical and contemporary relationships are to a large extent still left out of the education at all levels in the Swedish education system.
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