Sámi author and journalist Elin Anna Labba will discuss her latest publication The Rocks will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi (2024). The book tells the deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today.
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About the Book
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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow
by Elin Anna Labba
More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since.
In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today’s world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.
"A crucial contribution to Indigenous and Sámi history, The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow is heartbreaking, infuriating, and necessary reading."
—Barbara Sjoholm, author of From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
Speakers
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Elin Anna Labba
BioElin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and was previously editor-in-chief of the magazine Nuorat.
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In-person
Jan 26, 2025
Meet the Author/Meet the Translator with Drs. Nana Osei- Kofi and Olivia Gunn
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Members & Students: Free
Non-Members: $5
