For Sámi literature to continue playing its essential role in our culture and to expand its benefits, we need more writers, readers, and translators, which is impossible without support—both financially and through the education system.

A real work of Amerindian literature makes perceptible another way of ordering and being in the world.

water boils up from grouped stones, grips me.

At light of dawn I rise and make fire, / and dry in nascent fire-gleam the space where dew once pearled.

a dark stillness / goes about sowing death.

I alone / plunge my roots / and outstretch my branches.

Silvio wanted to escape, race across the sown fields with his long rhea legs until he reached some place where no one could see him.