Socksjock

Sjokksjokk was a Forest Sámi community in the wooded country of Lule Lappmark. Its inhabitants drew on fishing and hunting as well as reindeer, moving between resources scattered across the forest. Reindeer were useful for transport as well as for herding, and the community's land formed part of a wider pattern of Sámi use of the northern interior. In the eighteenth century, grazing rights in Sjokksjokk were shared with Mountain Sámi whose herds came down to the forests in winter. Such arrangements joined communities with different seasonal movements on the same land, even as the Swedish state increasingly sought to regulate its use.