Axelsson's piece gets straight at the heart of the issues for Sweden. "Sápmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away. Sweden does look to the past, but with a false, nostalgic gaze. Its vision of history can only lead the country into a narrow and isolated future."

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

For the past decades, the two communities of which I am a part—Sámi, from the part of Sápmi that falls within Sweden’s borders, and the Swedish majority society—have been developing in different di…