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Chairwoman of the Swedish Truth Commission for the Sami People and former judge at the Swedish Supreme Court Kerstin Calissendorff poses for a portrait in Stockholm on April 13, 2023. After centuries of persecution, Sweden's indigenous Sami people are beginning to provide testimony about the injustices they experienced in a recently-launched "Truth Commission" probing the country's discriminatory policies and their consequences. Experts have since February been gathering the often-painful accounts from Samis, formerly known by the now-pejorative term Lapplanders or Lapps. (Photo by Maelle LIONS-GEOLLOT / AFP) (Photo by MAELLE LIONS-GEOLLOT/AFP via Getty Images)