The Fosen windmills were ruled illegal, but Tula says the state still has not acted on that verdict.
1. Heritage Voices episode 88 focuses on Sami land protection, with Jessica Uquinto speaking to Tula Sharma Vasvik.
2. Tula Sharma Vasvik is a coastal Sami writer, project leader, musician, and the host of Vasteland Färanatt, which they describe as Sami stories of resistance.
3. The episode asks how Standing Rock, Sápmi, archaeology, and indigenous methodologies shape current land-protection work.
4. Tula says they studied archaeology first, then moved into indigenous studies for a master's degree in Tromsø.
5. Tula describes finding archaeology close-minded because Sami prehistory was treated as stagnant and frozen in time.
6. Tula says Norwegian schooling gave them only about one hour of Sami history and Sami issues.
7. Tula ties that early gap to later learning about the racist idea that indigenous peoples do not evolve or change.
8. Tula's master's work focused on Standing Rock and on interviews with Holy Elk, Sincala Mahpia Wynne Black Owl, and Sara Mariella Gaup-Beska.
9. Tula says they spent three weeks at Standing Rock in winter 2016 during the year Donald Trump was elected.
10. Tula describes the camp as a healing space with kitchens, toilets, wood chopping, and people taking care of each other.
11. Tula says Standing Rock changed how they think about community, future, and the values that organize indigenous life.
12. Tula says writing the thesis was difficult because they did not want to reproduce an unequal researcher-subject power balance.
13. Tula also says their supervisors pushed for objectivity even while asking for indigenous methodologies.
14. Tula names Rauna Kuokkanen and Linda Tuhiwai Smith as major influences, including Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies.
15. Tula says listening is central to indigenous-context work and that state-level gaslighting has made many Sami people distrust the systems in control.
16. Tula connects that distrust to current cases in Sápmi, including windmill conflicts and court fights over land rights.
17. Tula says Oslo has seen major Sami occupations of federal government buildings by young activists from across Sápmi.
18. Tula presents the discussion in an interview style that moves from biography to case studies and personal reflection.
19. Listeners interested in Sami politics, indigenous research, and land defense will get the most from this episode.
20. Listeners seeking a short, nonpolitical archaeology discussion may want to skip it.
