Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter examines the migration, assimilation, and enduring legacy of eugenics among the Sámi people, an indigenous ethnic group from Sápmi who span northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Previous scholarship has expanded analyses of indigenous land-based cultures; yet, a critical gap remains in understanding the displacement of the Sámi to North America during the 19th and 20th centuries, amid dominant narratives of Norwegian nationalism. This chapter examines how pseudoscientific and discriminatory practices, such as eugenics, reinforced Norwegianization policies aimed at homogeneity. From a postcolonial feminist lens, this critical inquiry situates Sámi women's experiences within the broader global context of scientific racism and assimilation, and argues these practices have produced intergenerational trauma that has shaped diasporic Sámi identity in contemporary North America.</jats:p>