Niillas Somby
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Niillas Somby (formally known as Nils Somby)[1] is a Sami political rights activist, journalist and photographer. He was one of seven hunger strikers during the Alta controversy,[1][2] and lost an arm during a sabotage action.[1][3]
The documentary film Give Us Our Skeletons (directed by Paul-Anders Simma in 1999) follows Somby's quest to retrieve the heads of his ancestors, Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta, from the University of Oslo in Norway.[4]
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- ↑ a b c Interview from 1996. Retrieved July 15, 2008
- ↑ Dams as aid: a political anatomy of Nordic development thinking by Ann Danaiya Usher, retrieved on Google Books 2010-02-15
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- ↑ Gi oss våre skjeletter tilbake Tromsoby.no, retrieved 29 January 2013