Nils-Aslak Valkeapää delivered this prologue during the opening ceremony of the North Norway Festival in Harstad in 1991, the year he served as ”Artist of the Year.”

The speech that Nils-Aslak Valkeapää gave when he was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1991, translated into English by Jussi Suvanto (2014)

Greetings from Lappland. The Sami – Europe’s Forgotten People (1984, pp. 127–128, Zed Books)