Paper short abstract:

The Sami cultural heritage are relics that exist after ours ancestors. We can see traces in the Sami cultural landscape, migration routes, settlements, pre-Christian burial sites, Sami holy places, cultural-historical objects, sacred objects such as drums and seitar and Sami human remains.

Paper long abstract:

The Sami cultural heritage are relics that exist after ours

ancestors. We can see traces in the Sami cultural landscape,

migration routes, settlements, pre-Christian burial sites, Sami saints

places, cultural-historical objects, sacred objects such as

drums and seitar and Sami human remains.

The Sami, like other indigenous peoples in the world, have been deprived of theirs

cultural heritage. Much is about power and colonialism.

The right to a Sami cultural heritage is about the right to interpret

and define their history and their past. It is about

also about managing and communicating their own cultural heritage

Sami museums.

It is important to museums, institutions and government

cooperates in the field of objects and human remains.

It's not just about a physical return but it

is about reconciliation. It is also about ethics and morality

and even about ownership.