Chapter 5.2 The right to traditional resources and development programs

Steinar Pedersen was born in 1947 in the Sea-Sámi community of Denodat/Vestertana in Finnmark, Norway. He is a historian, holding a PhD concerning the rights of the Sami to use renewable resources across the border between Finland and Norway. He has also published on sea-fisheries, the salmon-fishery in Deatnu/Tana River, the use of other kinds of natural resources, and on the impact of Norwegian nationalism to Sámi culture. He was for many years a researcher at the Nordic Sámi Institute in Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino, and has been associate professor and principal at Sámi University College in the same village.