The county council leader supports demands for the Queen of Denmark
Sami Parliament President Aili Keskitalo has sent a letter to HM Queen Margrethe about the repatriation of Sami drums.
Bjørn Inge Mo (Labor Party), county council leader in Troms and Finnmark county municipalities, supports the demand from the Sami parliament president.
–It’s a time for everything, and now is the time for Denmark to deliver back what they took during the Danish era. Therefore, I fully support the Sami Parliament President as a demand that we keep our own Sami cultural treasure, says county council leader in Troms and Finnmark, Bjørn Inge Mo, in a press release.
Sami Parliament President Aili Keskitalo has reached out to the Danish queen for help in retaining a Sami drum from the 17th century, which was confiscated by the Danes after an ax murder in 1692.
–I am informed that the President of the Sami Parliament has sent a letter to the Danish Queen to keep the cultural treasure that was taken from the Sami population 300 years ago. I wholeheartedly support this initiative, and I would like to add that in my opinion it is a matter of course that a valuable cultural object that was seized during the Danes’ 400-year occupation of Norway, must of course be returned now. I really do not understand that the Danish state can be made aware of this case, and strongly urge the Danish institutions to take the initiative to return the cultural treasure to the Sami people. This is what county council leader Bjørn Inge Mo says.