A truth commission set up to probe injustices committed by the Swedish state against the indigenous Sami people, such as forced relocations and assimilation programs, will Wednesday present its findings to the government.
There are an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Sami people across the vast Arctic wilderness of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia's Kola peninsula.
They have lived by hunting, fishing and reindeer herding for thousands of years, and been subjected to colonisation for centuries.
The independent commission, which was announced by the government in 2021, was tasked with charting and investigating the policies affecting the Sami and their implementation.
It is scheduled to formally hand over its final report to the government at a ceremony starting 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) in the city of Ostersund, known as Staare in the Southern Sami language.
A central part of the commission's work has been gathering testimony from Sami people about their experiences.
According to the commission, it has collated some 300 interviews and written testimonies.
The commission was originally meant to present its findings in December 2025, but requested an extension.
It presented a research anthology in March, wherein researchers described abuses such as forced relocations and how Sami children were forcibly taken from their families and put in boarding schools as well as documenting how Sami culture and faith were broken down.
The persecution of the Sami, Europe's only indigenous people, goes back to the 17th century, when the state began colonising and exploiting their resource-rich lands.
They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.
In June 2023, a commission set up by Norway's parliament delivered a damning report on historical injustices against and attempts to assimilate indigenous Sami, Kvens and other ethnic Finnish people, and in November 2024, Norway's parliament formally apologised to the minorities.
In December 2025, a Finnish a truth and reconciliation commission called on Finland to rectify injustices committed against the indigenous Sami people.
Unlike similar commissions in other countries, the Swedish commission was not tasked with proposing potential reconciliation efforts.
But when the Sami Parliament requested that the government set up a truth commission it said it was expected that it would be followed by a reconciliation process once the commission's work had been completed.
