‘A lot of collective trauma’: Sweden’s Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission

‘A lot of collective trauma’: Sweden’s Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission

Authorities have been hearing how historical wrongdoing against Sami people has affected their lives

Before starting “nomad school” – a segregated church-run school system for Indigenous children that existed in Sweden until the 1960s – aged seven, Lars Stenberg had only ever known the safe environment of his family.

But after three years of bullying at the institution – which the Swedish church has since admitted to being racist – he was left with emotional scars so deep they still haunt him today.

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