WE ARE STILL HERE (Official) - Sofia Jannok feat. Anders Sunna

LYRICS: Intro (Excerpts from the State Attorney’s intervention during the hearing in the court case between the Sámi reindeer herding community Girjas - from whence Sofia Jannok’s grandmother came - and the Swedish State. Gällivare Lapland District Court, June, 2015.): “From the onset on, it is of importance to state that: The Sámi have not been subjected to discrimination by the State.” ”The question then is what is meant by the concept of ethnicity, if it is to be claimed that the Sámi is an ethnic group. And then it becomes clear that ethnicity as a concept is a highly debated one.” ”The ethnic aspect has been of no relevance from a historic point of view, when a distinction was made between nomads, in other words Lapps, and settlers.” “[...] The entire archaeological evidence put forward by the Sámi reindeer herding community is of no relevance to the case in question.” ”The State consistently disputes the claim that the Sámi have been present in t
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