“We live in a society where resistance takes place every day. It’s not anything new for us, and this railroad plan is not the first thing we must take a stand against.”

Dec 28

Petra-Biret Magga-Vars (peh-trah-beye-ret ma-gah-vahrs)

Sámi reindeer-herder

IMAGE SOURCE: Inger-Elle Suoninen. “Protesters in Finnish Sápmi draw red lines against railroad to Arctic Ocean.” Yles Sapmi. 10 Sept 2018. | QUOTE SOURCE: Inger-Elle Suoninen. “Protesters in Finnish Sápmi draw red lines against railroad to Arctic O… — IMAGE SOURCE: Inger-Elle Suoninen. “Protesters in Finnish Sápmi draw red lines against railroad to Arctic Ocean.” Yles Sapmi. 10 Sept 2018. | QUOTE SOURCE: Inger-Elle Suoninen. “Protesters in Finnish Sápmi draw red lines against railroad to Arctic Ocean.” Yles Sapmi. 10 Sept 2018.

QUOTE CONTEXT: ”A group of people form a line on a bog south of the Finnish village Vuotso. They have come to show that they are against building a railroad through the area to the Arctic Ocean”

QUOTE QUESTION: What have your people had to take a stand against time after time?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “The red line was formed by people standing, in red clothes, in a line as if they were stopping something.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What are your colors when you’re standing up?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The text and photo are from Yle Sapmi, a radio station in the Sami language and for the Sami people.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What media channels have been created to broadcast the stories of your people?

“We live in a society where resistance takes place every day. It’s not anything new for us, and this railroad plan is not the first thing we must take a stand against.”

Petra-Biret Magga-Vars (peh-trah-beye-ret ma-gah-vahrs)

“We have always been forced to defend our rights. We refuse to look away while the Finnish state tramples on the rights of our people.”

“The roots are where it starts… Sun, moon, land, animals are important… I am not the main thing here, the human.”