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"In 1635, mining was introduced in Sápmi when a silver mine opened near Árjepluovve in Sweden. The impact on Sámi society was huge. Businessmen and settlers arrived from the south, while local Sámi were driven from their homes and used as coolies. Resistance was met with harsh repression. A special kind of water torture became notorious. Sámi were dragged along a rope underneath the ice of a frozen lake from one hole to another."
EU's critical materials plans worry Nordic Indigenous
“The cumulative effects of all these encroachments is basically that we don't have any more land to feed our reindeer. So the little that is remaining we need to protect,” Elle-Merete Omma told Ian Morse. Without land to feed reindeer, herders spend considerably on artificial fodder. Wind turbines repel herds, and thinned forests lack the lichens that reindeer depend on.
https://greenrocks.substack.com/p/eu-sweden-raw-materials-nickel-sami