Exploring Pre-Colonial Resource Control of Individual Sami Households

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ID16865698
AutoresGudrun Norstedt (0000-0002-4438-3547, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, autor de correspondencia), Anna-Lena Axelsson, Anna‐Lena Axelsson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Lars Östlund (0000-0002-7902-3672, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Año2014
Volumen67
Número2
Páginas223
Fecha de publicación2014-05-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaARCTIC (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245
EditorialThe Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14430/arctic4389
OpenAlexW2027717431
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

In order to understand the use and control of resources by indigenous households and bands, information on territorial division is crucial. However, although indigenous resource use has been quantified in several studies, such information has usually been lacking. A unique map provides this kind of information for the Swedish Sami. Drawn by Jonas Persson Gedda in 1671, before the Swedish state started to interfere with Sami territorial division, it shows the borders of 37 household territories. We have combined the geographical information from Gedda’s map with historical sources and modern land survey data to quantify the resources controlled by each household and relate them to taxation. Three crucial resources are identified: alpine heath together with subalpine birch forest, pine-dominated forests, and fishing waters. Only the fishing resource showed any correlation to taxation, which underlines its importance as the main subsistence mode, at least for the forest Sami. Mountain Sami, who lived primarily on reindeer husbandry, controlled abundant alpine heath and subalpine birch forests that were used as summer pastures, but virtually no pine-dominated forests with winter pastures. The necessary winterpastures were located in the territories of the forest Sami, who controlled extensive pine-dominated forests and who were able to combine reindeer herding and wild reindeer hunting

Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Fishing · Geography · Herding · Indigenous · Montane ecology · Natural resource · Resource (disambiguation) · Subsistence agriculture · Climate change and permafrost · Ecology · Forestry · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Tree-ring climate responses