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\u201dWhen we were Samis\u201d\/\u201dN\u00e4r vi var samer\u201d by Mats Jonsson<\/p><\/div>\n

For the lucky ones who can read Swedish there is a book I would warmly recommend to read! This is Mats Jonsson\u2019s book, \u201dN\u00e4r vi var samer\u201d, published in 2021. It tells the story that we are longing to find out more about, the story of the Samis. Unravelling his own family story and looking into his Sami roots, Mats Jonsson, dives into Sami history and of course most certainly thus Swedish history since the 1600s. The book is not a traditional book. It is written in a cartoon form and in black and white. To be honest, that non-conventional way of writing was peculiar to me and the first pages were difficult to follow and digest. But after page 40 (this is also when the real story starts), everything changes, you are taken away by the narrative, and I (personally) got used to the \u201dcartoon-like\u201d way of writing.<\/p>\n

Providing a review for this book is not a simple endeavour. History is narrated together with family history (a part of the book that I was not always able to follow). And from the discussions on the history of the \u201dcoffee tree\u201d (the tree where the predecessors of the author used to hang their coffee pot), to the terrible story of “Stor-Stina” the author keeps the reader\u2019s interest. \u201dStor-Stina\u201d, Kristina Katarina Larsdotter (1819\u20131837), who was shown as a freak, never stopped growing, died young and whose skeleton was then displayed at Karolinska Institutet’s museum, directed by the notorious Anders Retzius \u2013 the father of craniology, who developed theories about short- and long-bald people \u2013 by extension the basis for theories about cultural stages, in short racism.<\/p>\n

\u201dWhen we were Sami\u201d, provides an illustrative description of the struggle between Sami history and identity and the Swedish colonial empire. Although it includes sad elements, it is not a sad book. The quest for the author\u2019s identity, history, becomes a quest for Swedish history, the real, the whole history, including the dark sides of Sami exclusion and cultural extinction.<\/p>\n

Mats Jonsson’s storytelling technique is also so liberating, the alternation between reportage and fiction manages to communicate a difficult subject in an entertaining and easy way.<\/p>\n

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Frantzeska Papadopoulou<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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