Diss.--Helsinki. / Bibliography: v. 1, p. [356]-364.

Diss.--Helsinki. / Bibliography: v. 1, p. [356]-364.

Thesis--Helsinki. / "Eripainos Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia 160:stä." Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English and Lapp. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 256-264.

Thesis--Helsinki. / "Eripainos Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia 160:stä." Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English and Lapp. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 256-264.

The Sami people are a national minority in Sweden, but are also considered as native citizens of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. The world has however a very limited knowledge about the Sami’s and their cultural background. The aim of this proposal is to examine six different history schoolbooks which depict the Sami people in Sweden. In addition, one of the key elements of this proposal is to understand how the selected literature represents the Sami people. Lastly, the proposal also seeks to review if the literature in the schoolbooks represents the elementary curriculum goals (Lpo94). The selected method was to do a text analysis of the literature and to illustrate that is presented in the reviewed schoolbooks. The text analysis is completed with an analysis of the illustrations and pictures that are presented in the selected schoolbooks. The key findings were that the review in majority of schoolbooks has stereotypical descriptions of the Sami people. The Sami people are generally depicted with the hut and the reindeer management in majority of the reviewed schoolbooks. The research about the Sami people is inappreciable in majority of the reviewed literature. In addition, the Sami people are often presented in connection with “other” history, such as the silver ore in the mines or the territory dispute with settlers from the south of Sweden.   As a conclusion from the literature review, the Sami people are depicted as people with not much cultural history, static and none evolving.

The aim of this essay is to study how the Sami are presented in four textbooks about religion and history that are used in the schools of the majority culture of Sweden today and one book of ideas asto how a textbook could look like from a Sami's perspective. Its aim is not only to study how the Sami are presented but also to discuss how students who read these books could interpret what it means to be a Sami and what their culture is about. It is also meant to discuss how the Sami identitycould be formed. In order to be able to discuss this the essay uses three different kinds of theories about identity and culture. The analysis showed that there is little information about Sami culture, identity, religion and historypresented in the four textbooks used in schools of the majority culture and that these books seem to want students to think that the Sami are troublemakers but are and should be assimilated into the majority culture.

"This dissertation ... was accepted by the ... University of Chicago in January 1955." / Indiana University publications. Slavic and East European series, v. 5. International journal of American linguistics, v. 23, no. 1, pt. 2. Bibliography: p. 123-128.

Akademisk avhandling--Uppsala. / Bibliography: p. 244-248.

Akademisk avhandling - Uppsala. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 200-215.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993. / Discography: p. 427-429. Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-426).