Niillas Somby | |
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Born | [1] | 4 December 1948
Occupation(s) | Sami political rights activist, cultural worker. |
Niillas Somby (formally known as Nils Somby) [2] is a Sami political rights activist, journalist and photographer. He was one of seven hunger strikers during the Alta controversy, [2] [3] and lost an arm during a sabotage action. [2] [4]
The documentary film Give Us Our Skeletons (directed by Paul-Anders Simma in 1999) follows Somby’s quest to retrieve the heads of his ancestors, Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta, from the University of Oslo in Norway. [5]