The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Smi (Labba Elin Anna)(Pevná vazba)

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 drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts, Labba shares, citing the Smi poet illohas. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Smi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a
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