{"id":49707,"date":"2020-04-01T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/?p=49707"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:54:55","slug":"utstilling-nettverksbyggeren-elsa-laula-renberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/utstilling-nettverksbyggeren-elsa-laula-renberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: The networker - Elsa Laula Renberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get to know the pioneering woman Elsa Laula Renberg \u2013 a rare network builder. On 6th February, we are opening the exhibition presenting Elsa Laula and her tenacious work for the S\u00e1mi people. <\/strong>During the opening, we will be showing the radio cinema \u00abIn Elsa Laula's Footsteps Through S\u00e1pmi\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What<\/strong>Exhibition Opening: The Network Builder \u2013 Elsa Laula Renberg
When <\/strong>6 February
Where: <\/strong>Centre for Northern Peoples \/ Senter for nordlige folk, The Gallery
Time<\/strong>4.00 PM
Exhibition period<\/strong>6 February \u2013 31 March<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pioneer woman Elsa Laula Renberg is one of the most important champions for the S\u00e1mi people of all time; she was determined and exceptionally skilled at engaging others. Elsa Laula was the main person behind the first S\u00e1mi Congress on 6 February 1917. The congress's opening date, 6 February, is now celebrated as S\u00e1mi National Day in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Cinema<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

We are opening the exhibition with radio cinema. \u00abIn the Footsteps of Elsa Laula through S\u00e1pmi \u2013 100 Years of S\u00e1mi Rights Struggle\u00bb is a radio documentary with S\u00e1mi women's voices. Through four episodes, everything from the fight for natural resources, colonisation, the Norwegianisation policy, racial biology to language, art and culture is depicted. Many of the issues Elsa Laula fought for a hundred years ago are proving to be relevant today as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astrid Fadnes is one of the creators of the documentary. She will introduce us to the process behind it and play an episode: \u201cA picture can change<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsa Laula Renberg. Illustration: Helene Gedda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the radio documentary: In Elsa Laula's footsteps through S\u00e1pmi \u2013 100 years of S\u00e1mi rights struggle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the episodes from In the footsteps of Elsa Laula<\/em>, NRK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen, Elsa, sing. Renberg<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg (1877-1931) was born near Vilhelmina on the Swedish side. Her parents were nomadic S\u00e1mi reindeer herders who moved between the counties of Helgeland and V\u00e4sterbotten, at a time when the colonisation of Scandinavia had reached all S\u00e1mi areas. The conflict between the reindeer herders and the settlers encroaching on the best grazing lands marked Elsa Laula's upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula understood early on that she had to gain allies and started by building a network. When she qualified as a midwife in Stockholm, she became part of a S\u00e1mi student environment that worked for S\u00e1mi rights. Together, they founded the first S\u00e1mi association: Lapparnas Centralf\u00f6rbund (1904) and the Brurskanken S\u00e1mi association in Mosj\u00f8en in 1907.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula was only 27 years old when she wrote her own manifesto: Life or death<\/em>. She highlighted themes such as land ownership, reindeer grazing rights, drunkenness and school conditions. She believed it was a matter of life or death for her people who were subjected to so much injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is only one way,
and it goes via a unified S\u00e1mi association
which functions in every nerve of life
the S\u00e1mi population.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Quotes from Elsa Laula's manifesto (translated from Swedish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn't until the Brurskanken Sami Women's Association was founded in 1910 that things started moving. With Elsa Laula as chair, they were strong and active, and plans were made for the first Sami National Congress in Trondheim in 1917. The invitations specifically encouraged women to participate, and the proportion of women was formidable: a full 40 % of the 150 participants were women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the film: Elsa Laula Renberg, The Woman Who United S\u00e1pmi<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\"Screenshot\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition has been created by Helgeland Museum with support from Fritt Ord and the S\u00e1mi Parliament. The majority of the photographs in the exhibition are from Thomas Renberg's photo collection, donated to Vefsn Museum in the 1990s. The exhibition was part of Tr\u00e5ante 2017, the centenary celebration of the very first S\u00e1mi conference, which took place in Trondheim from 6 February 1917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Elsa Laula Renberg, nordligefolk.no<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current links<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg: A story about royal power, colonisation, and communication, B\u00e5rj\u00e5s 2013, pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00bbThe Sami Joan of Arc', NRK\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1mi frontwoman, Dagsavisen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg speaks Sami with her children, NRK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg, Store norske leksikon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandma's fight continues, Our country<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg \u2013 Pioneer and Role Model in Sami History, Helgeland Museum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula Renberg, Allkunne Living Encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the fore in the fight for S\u00e1mi rights, kvinnehistorie.no<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Elsa Laula Renberg, \u00c1rdna \u2013 Sami Culture Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the radio documentary: In Elsa Laula's footsteps through S\u00e1pmi \u2013 100 years of S\u00e1mi rights struggle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the episodes from Following Elsa Laula, NRK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Laula writes the theatre catalogue articles for 2017, pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures from the exhibition opening: The Networker \u2013 Elsa Laula Renberg<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Bli kjent med pionerkvinnen Elsa Laula Renberg \u2013 en nettverksbygger av de sjeldne. 6. februar \u00e5pner vi utstillingen som presenterer Elsa Laula og hennes iherdige arbeid for det samiske folk. Under \u00e5pningen kj\u00f8rer vi radiokino \u00abI Elsa Laulas fotspor gjennom S\u00e1pmi\u00bb. Hva: \u00c5pning av utstillingen: Nettverksbyggeren \u2013 Elsa Laula RenbergN\u00e5r: 6. februarHvor: Davvi \u00e1lbmogiid guovdd\u00e1\u0161  \/ Senter for… Continue reading Exhibition: The networker - Elsa Laula Renberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utstillinger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49712,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions\/49712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}