Ellinor: “I am fighting for Indigenous rights in Norway”

Ellinor: “I am fighting for Indigenous rights in Norway”

Ellinor Guttorm Utsi, 60, is a Sami reindeer herder from Norway. The Sami people are an Indigenous People with distinct culture, languages, and traditions who inhabit the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Now, this land and way of life are under threat. The Norwegian Government is planning to build several hundred wind turbines, which would disrupt the reindeer’s herding patterns. Ellinor is calling for a stop to these…