huge race begins. and crave the tallest biggest and the most beautiful structures. this is how a massive church is portrayed it. conjures the feet drawls starts april 12th on d. w. . sweden's arctic region. thousands of years the indigenous sami people have been heading reindeer on this land. for a very long time this part of the land was for the salmon people then they was living here there was fishing they was hunting. in one way. and almost to the

sami. but non-indigenous swedish hunters see things differently up out there in general that is the state which owns the land and which should regulate hunting and fishing that should be accepted as a matter of course by everyone our lives here and pays taxes and sweden. a long simmering conflict over hunting has reached a boiling point disputed question you understand the reindeer. to kill the sorry it's a very special day it's september and every september it's time to disarm me to gather together the reindeer in the mountains ylva is a. member of the sun me people and his family also refrain. she's never missed this

autumn spectacle. the photographer wants to recoup the event she says it is a way of conveying the saami way of life to others. to maintain his crown is located in remote mountainous territory. and the last few days the sunny have headed to the thousands of rented using motorbikes quad bikes to tell a cop to. the 1st half of the day we look if we have any more cards has missing the mark in the ears. so we finish the marking of the cards for this season

it's the last chance is the last time then we are starting to see and choose which animal chilled going to be slaughter it. then it's time to let the rest of the herd go out for free again in the mountains so we open the gates and they are running out on the mountain again that is a really good feeling when you can see them harming out in there that nature where they belong in. the sun me head is prohibited hunting in the area during the corralling period. to the anger of hunters who season has just begun. we have a big area the hunting need to be right here in these the square kilometers i want them to lease them and try to. understand.

not just saying that we are closing the mountain for everybody no we don't do that. we want to live together side by side but we need to do it in a way which is the best for the rain. and those who know what's best for the rain there is the rain the hood a. few lucky green things to prohibiting access to so much land to protect the rain of the sun. he's just got back home from his job working to the long planned.

time to go hunting for him that's what life is all about it's a passion he inherited from his father. ya gotta die hard whenever i can 4 to 5 days a week between august 25th and march 15th when hunting is permitted for the last of 3 during that time i'm continually outdoors and i hunt an awful lot although when i'm not hunting i'm outside training the dogs that's my lifestyle. then if the you come there. you walk in she is a partner with these 4 dogs there he's provided enjoy he bred them and trying to hunt defensive and alludes in competition. and even though i live with my dogs like you would a family we live in close proximity i take them everywhere we train together we hunt together and we fish together if get it we sleep together in a tent fly in

a helicopter or travel by boat to my hunting cabin we share everything they join we are all my trips i can't imagine better company. that the south of coming into ha. ha you walk in is going good hunting with east coast time contingent many of his favorite hunting grounds and puff limits because of the rain that's why he has to travel fun to pursue his hobby. and the friends and i fear that at some point i won't be able to find any or good hunting grounds there little my biggest fear is not being able to get out into nature anymore because the outdoors is why i live here really haven't heard. of to just under now has tried

a few hakim has survived as his destination. if it's g.p.s. devices to his dogs so that he can locate them in the rough terrain. and we have to pay the same price for the hunting permit as last year but we're not allowed to hunt and deer yes anymore. and that. he is one of $51.00 sunny communities in sweden and approximately 6 times his biggest been in since 2020 the sunday community he has been in charge of configuring pool to smoove game hunting and fishing rights and not the regional authorities some feel it is pioneering to hunt could sit dangerous precent on the sunny communities will follow. for some the activist marty bin bag is a victory in the years long battle candy he's the chairman ezekiel sammy community he's been a proud owner of riding stables for 20 years. now

writing. the sammy the indigenous people in northern scandinavia wanted to decide who was allowed to hunt and fish on their ancestral lands and when marty ben berg was locked in a legal battle with the swedish state for a decade and 20 twentieth's sweden supreme court ruled in his favor. but. morally we have the right. my my relatives have. been harmed then we used to scrounge for over a few fish to have great news when you think the burial has been here so how could the people in stoke on this side of every good compound when i go out hunting to see tracks well you know my ancestors i talk to them when i go there. like his food is there is also

a reindeer and hunter and he offers to some icelandic horses to visitors to the area. in his opinion this winter stakes procreated to sunny people's ancestral lands over the last few centuries. we never know enough now is enough is enough their memory stand up roll right and when we do it will become all over the situation. but the cool blinking spark anger and some have been threatened in public. there was a radio program the other way and there were a guy from the 100 s. . he really trust people if he says if there are more so alicia coming off again is going to be violence and blood in the streets he said it in the radio international radio. the atmosphere here is heated

until you are clean and green fused directly threatened by the ruling in favor of disarming because it doesn't only give the giri a sunny community the right to determine who is allowed to hunt in the area it also allows them to decide how many hunters are allowed on land and when. i fear that there could be more and more regulation of hunting in the future year yes has decided to close the majority of its territories until september 15th last year the winter arrived on september 30th along with half a meter of snow. and what a stop to hunting it's getting worse and worse i hope that things don't continue to develop like this but i fear they will there's. no rain to say they want to keep hunting dogs like you walk away from their own homes that makes you hakim secret he says he'll void strange. but occasionally inquisitive reindeer approach. i mean my dogs are trained

not to chase reindeer and when i see reindeer i back off no problem always done my best to act responsibly in nature you know i always try to do what i can to help ensure that we all get along together and don't drift apart. after. he working please don't look out for tom again no trace of any such fun. i train my dogs to wait when they find a bird they're not allowed to chase the bird when it takes flight they have to stand still and come what i call a practice that regularly when i invest 2 to 3000 hours and dog and on top of that we do a lot of stamina training that i mean the school to see into something a month school.

obvious that i missed it my shot just missed the bird disappeared in the undergrowth behind the birches 0 to come i only saw it for a few seconds ago in the. torah come now are. you looking to consume julie's last week into you saw i need 6 tommy can influence you know this. for him it's a wife relaxing. in you hakim's opinion being able to roam freely out tools is not just important to the psammead people and the way of life. where we are swedes we live in sweden and we pay taxes and the state owns the land and we are the state it is important for us to co-exist and that we are not miserly but generous for there is enough space for everyone if we are considerate and

respect one another only that around. him and doesn't want to give up the hunt and sit suffer in search of photonic and. up to 12000 brain de cranes in the sunny district of curious the sunny have possessed the land use right since 1906 efficient large parts of swedish lapland belong to the state. in the midst of the grazing area lies the village of nick looked up. into a sorry grew up here him and sisters who sunny nomads. looked up was named after her grandfather.

my grandfather and grandmother was following the reindeer in the area and saw these when they passed this place nickel akbar when they're going east for their winter time and then it's past again when they're going west in the summertime so in the beginning of 1900 there were some bad years for the reindeers so a couple of families decided to be little more stature with this that's in there and there was no this fire 5 family who decided to settle down was my grandfather and grandmother. belongs to one of the 20 families incurious which still loom reindeer. in her work as a photographer she talked to mr traditional way of life of the community. only some 5000 of the sunny in sweden there are up to 50000 in total still live like elder and her family. some of the sami people are

not anymore feeling as sami because they are living in this situation so they are totally enclosed to my aura to society but for me it's important and i am a part of the zara society even if they are living in sweden and also have a part of me is this weird i them to tea but. when any body asked me then i am assuming. many non-indigenous swedes think the sunny land claims are excessive. ylva is well aware that. i think it's difficult for people to understand what we are talking about when we are talking about we need the area for the reindeer we are close to nature

yes there is a lot of nature but we need a big part of it so the rain there can be all over the here. and then we got questions why are your reindeer under roads why are your reindeer on the railroads and the opposite is why are you. making this road and railroad and crossing where the rain there has walk for thousands of years. what is now the town of tonight used to be grazing land for reindeer watched over by sonny herders. sweden the most town was founded in 1900 mine is moved here from southern sweden in search of luck displacing the indigenous people and the reindeer.

nowadays the majority of the town's 23000 inhabitants are non-indigenous swedes. including mykonos el back he finds it perplexing that sunny now have the right to vote hunting licenses. it would be very strange if you have more rides if you have been here a longer child how should we how should we handle people who coming in now and moving to sweden from the problem areas around the world should we say that i have some rights but they don't have. it's very important from a democratic view that we have to get the same rides. i think the problem is that people are stuck on that they have their own mantic pictures or the people with their origin or people with the last over the

traditional clothes walking with the reindeers are taking care of them but but it is not true you know the saami 90 percent of the saami don't have more rights than i have and it's just a small part of the sami or reindeer on. the 2020 cool gives the range he had a family history right to grant hunting licenses and incurious there are just 21. day after the animals a canal together in the mountains is still today sorry is also present with a camera. drained either but is ignited for sale already been sent off to the avatar to members of the sunny community count up the remainder for their own private consumption.

give us personal friend. parker and how we got our things good for you we have begun slaughtering the animals for that we brought that's great fresh meat at last after. the reward 1000000000 in europe yes there are a lot after a hard winter when it. is funny is a reindeer different in a prince sonny settlement. he slaughtered to these animals which had gotten mixed up with the reindeer to kill sonny. his father taught him the job. i have. between your never a chance. so it's my father my son's so. i'm in the middle so are you helping everyone to do slaughtering this even though hunter has never gotten his

way he believes that it's necessary to make many areas off limits. you can look at our place up here it's a working place when we don't want people to be there because it's dangerous or this but serving their work what we are doing them except it like an ordinary industry we need to work with the reindeer because we need to move but the most of the people who are up here they are. they doing it for pleasure that's the difference. so if you compare pressure things against were quite easy for me. to post inside a school so i concerned about jobs swedish lapland is the country's most popular in bantus destination turn of into reason it's almost doubled in the last 10 nice also

because of the hunting possibilities. sandburg wants to expand to recently a further he himself is the founder of the 2 reparation business but now the curious son community decided that in the future only hunters from the region would be allowed to hunt on her own sister land. the worst case scenario would be if if i . miss some of the village some to be get the same rights as the gear us and they will close the area of the area after area for the local people and also for the tourists for tourist companies we need people who work and we turismo and taking care of them out in the world enough for hunting and fishing i saw what. 2 days later and right. p.s. money is still processing new rain to meet after it's home for a while he has to convert to small cuts.

like close range in areas you can no longer leave from the same if you sentiments. use another job as a welder like almost all reindeer he thinks that the swedish state has been colonized in the land for centuries. when i was young we didn't have much mines or plants roads and other people who are out in the forest and now they see new mines every day from going up so now days are a family we cannot all that big bird because we don't have the space enough because we have a really big mine in our place where we stay in the winters so. i think we have lost the night to present that area. for our family

not for my say right not so worried but for my children say if they're going to work with a. brain there's where are they going to stay. as well as creating huge i know mining karuna the swedish state has been developing land for centuries building drones electricity pylons wind turbines and still use for 2 years. full sun to move the reindeer herders like piss money. kisses that sonny don't talk about how big their heads are it's like asking him what he has in his bank account. he gets approximately 500 euros nissan's a large animal to slaughter house. to send of one creature means he can food to keep 20 others improved infrastructure is attracting more and more people to the fun of sweden. it's only the last 1015 years before that have

never been trouble in this way what is now. because now everyone can go buy a quad bike. everyone can buy a snowmobile. and. everyone think if they have the right to. truth to build a house to fix things up there in the mountains. that's what. i get little bit upset over it when they say we have also rights but. no. you only have been here for this. it's not only that one person is not only mine says not only sit this it's not only true risk companies it's everything together because the society

are pushing us from all the directions. soon we don't know in what direction what where we can go to be free. close by 2 other men have met for a drink do you also feel that the deep. dark ever forgot. all the pundits are lacking green and his friend daniel hansen. martin stanley has been living in the arctic region for generations he shares his famous feeds. you have your complete freedom appalls and we could go anywhere and we had numerous fantastic possibilities of being in the outdoors and i would like my son to have exactly the same opportunities. so they can really get to know life

in the mountains well it's going to have a little. bit too many concerned that it might no longer be possible to live peacefully side by side. diseases on my own home that comical or even want to be putting a lot of those. in me than any. small proportion of the samea population now have all the rights and we have to try to see the light at the end of the tunnel but we can only hope that the politicians finally assume responsibility and see the big picture. at the moment we here in the north feel neglected for this said the vision that the big problem with organ said. i don't but they have a stove or we have to have it off the rail there is a car. over sorry is motivated by concern that goes beyond anything related to hunting rights

she doesn't want the indigenous peoples wildlife to be lost. she's so you traditional costume for her young grandchild are and she speaks sami to him a language that was long suppressed in sweden. i had to teach herself sami was only recognized as a minority language in 2000 and these days it's awful as a subject in school and yes. it is a part of our culture and still a big part of the sami people speak sami so when you don't understand what the people speaking to each other. you feel there is something missing in your heart and in your culture or in your identity. she hopes that other swedes will also finally start taking more of an interest in some identity. leave

him to you they don't know that we have our own culture our own clothes and that we are the indigenous people in sweden so even if there is the this issue that you should learn more of the sami people in schools it. it's not working that good right now so i hope it will be better and it can only be better if. the government make decisions for that. speech of the swedish snap plans mountains and forests is just the latest manifestation of a centrist conflict in the country's 5 hours between the sunday people and non-indigenous suites.

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