Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Sanna Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Associate Professor of Sámi Research at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Jarno Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland.

1. Introduction 2. On local Knowledge 3. Evasive strategies of defiance - everyday resistance histories among the Sámi 4. Returning home - the different ontologies of the Sámi collections 5. The paradox of autonomy 6. Belonging to Sápmi - the Sámi conceptions of home and home region 7. Reindeer herding, snowmobiles and social change - and a word on identity 8. The North is everywhere9. 'I'll show you the tundra' - the Sámi as an Indigenous people in the political thought of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää 10. Conceptual governance on defining indigeneity - the Sámi debate in Finland 11. The politics of belonging in the Indigenous North