Elsa Laula Renberg

Elsa Laula Renberg (around 1915)

Elsa Laula Renberg (born November 29, 1877 in Tärnaby , † July 22, 1931 in Brønnøy ) was a Swedish-Norwegian activist and politician. It provided important impulses for the emancipation of the Sami , especially Sami women.

Life

Elsa Laula Renberg was the daughter of the reindeer herders Lars Thomasson Laula and Kristina Josefina Larsdotter and grew up near Dikanäs . After completing the midwifery school in Stockholm , she returned to her home near Dikanäs. In 1908 she married the reindeer herder Thomas Renberg. Together they moved to Vefsn in Nordland in Norway . The marriage had six children. In 1904 she became the founding president of the first Semen Association and published a thirty-page pamphlet in Swedish Infor lif eller död? Sanningsord i de Lappska förhållandena ("Are we dead or alive? The truth about the conditions of the Lapps"). This made her the first Sami woman to publish a book. The work covered various areas that affected the Sami, such as the school system, the right to vote and the right to own land. The Sami national pride was strengthened with the publication of the pamphlet. Renberg also encouraged and supported Sami women to work. In 1917 she was one of the initiators of the first All-Norse Semen Conference. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 54 .

Varia

Elsa Laula Renberg is one of the main characters in Harald Gaskis and Gunnar H. Gjengset's drama about the life of Johan Turi .

literature

Karin Salm: The Joan of Arc of the North. Elsa Laula Renberg is the Sami political icon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 24, 2017 ( nzz.ch ).

Web links

The Pioneers: Elsa Laula And Karin Stenberg, The First Sámi Woman Writers
February 6th - The National Day of the Sámi - A symbol of cooperation and unity. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007 ; accessed on July 16, 2007 .

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Gaski, Johanna Domokos: Intercultural Dialogue in the North . In: Johan Turi. A play with a joik by Áilloš (= Samica . Band 5 ). Scandinavian Seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-4-7 , p. 9-17 .

personal data
SURNAME	Renberg, Elsa Laula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sami activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tärnaby
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 1931
Place of death	Brønnøy

[1] Harald Gaski, Johanna Domokos: Intercultural Dialogue in the North . In: Johan Turi. A play with a joik by Áilloš (= Samica . Band 5 ). Scandinavian Seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-4-7 , p. 9-17 .