Braiding Time: Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice

Rhetoric Society Quarterly May 2021 OA PDF

Braiding Time: Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice

Frida Buhre Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs ; Collin Bjork

Abstract

In Indigenous/settler relations, temporal rhetoric functions as an essential tool for both subjugation and resistance. Much scholarship on these temporalities focuses on Turtle Island and is thus implicitly shaped by a seminal historical event: the arrival of European colonizers. We extend this research by turning to Sweden, where the Indigenous Sami and the Scandinavians, who would later become their colonizers, have a long history of continuous interaction. We analyze a pamphlet written by Elsa Laula, the leader of the Sami civil rights movement in early twentieth-century Sweden, as well as Swedish policies and press documents from the time. While the settler Swedes employ similar techniques of temporal othering and erasure as colonizers on Turtle Island, Laula’s rhetoric differs subtly. Her rhetoric enacts resistance by highlighting how Sami temporalities are braided with Swedish temporalities, a rhetorical move that echoes their intertwined histories.

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 2021-05-27
DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2021.1918515
Open Access: OA PDF Bronze
Topics: race and writing

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