The Orphaned Land for Morgenbladet.
I was sent to Hamarøy, Norway to photograph a group of Lule Sami who are pushing for the Sami language to be taught in local schools in order to preserve the culture that has been slowly eroded after the infamous writings of Knut Hamsun and cultural assimilation by the Norwegian State. Writing by Helene Hovden Hareide of Morgenbladet.
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“The attitudes in Hamsun's texts permeate the whole community here. These attitudes is the reason why many parents opted out the Sami for their children and I did not get to learn the language”
