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On Friday, four #Saami Reindeer Herding Communities, from both sides of the Swedish/Norwegian border declared a moratorium at the Nása Mountain, to challenge the proposed opening of a mine in the area.
What follows are excerpts from their Moratorium Statement:
What follows are excerpts from their Moratorium Statement:
Since time immemorial, the Nása Mountain has been used as grazing pastures by reindeer herding Saami. Through a system of ecologically sustainable hunting, fishing and reindeer husbandry, this area has become a site where Saami have co-existed with nature on its own terms.
Long before the State colonised the Nása Mountain area and decreed that every reindeer herder had to belong to a state-approved herding district, this mountain used to be a privately owned Saami tax district, as well as a reindeer herding district governed by consuetudinary laws.
