Saami Educational and Knowledge Claims in School Systems of the Nordic Countries

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Cross-border forms of animal use by indigenous peoples

Revised version of the original published article “Cross-Border Forms of Animal Use by Indigenous Peoples” by Stefan Kirchner, American Journal of International Law, Unbound Volume 111, 2017, p. 402–407. The original article was published as an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)The chapter discusses animal use by indigenous peoples that involve crossing state borders, using the example of reindeer herding by indigenous Sámi in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Animals play important cultural, economic, and spiritual roles for indigenous communities. This particular form of interaction between humans and animals is, however, not sufficiently recognized by contemporary laws. The risk of overruling the interests of migratory animals, and of the pastoralist (semi-)nomadic human communities depending on them, is exacerbated when the herds cross boundariesViešosios teisės katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta