The WHISOL Project at the ENIUGH2025 Congress in Växjö

Project PI Reetta Humalajoki represented the WHISOL team at the Eighth European Congress on World and Global History (ENIUGH) at the Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. She presented a paper titled “‘Established at the Request of the Indians’: Finnish Solidarity with Native American and Sami Rights in the 1970s and 1980s.” The presentation focused on a Finnish association in support of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, founded in the wake of rise of the international Indigenous rights movement in the 1970s. The presentation considered how this solidarity work balanced the fascination with “Indianness” with campaigning for political rights for Indigenous peoples. It also considered how the association conceptualized Sámi rights, and how and in what ways its members showed support for Sámi issues in Finland. The presentation was part of the panel “Indigenous Peoples, Anti-Colonialism and International Allies,” organized by Dr. Jonathan Crossen, Associate Professor at the Center for Sámi Studies, UiT the Arctic University of Norway.