Elin Anna Labba

The powerful, haunting saga of a family of Sami women fighting for their way of life in a changing world, when their summer settlement is flooded without warning. Every summer, Inga, her mother Ravdna, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Inga is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions...

The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Smi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today. More than a hundred years have passed since the Smi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba's ancestors and relations...