This article analyses different individuals’ actions in relation to Sámi sacrificial stones (sieidis)
as they appear in narratives, missionary reports, and research; and relate them to discussions on
heritage politics and the establishment of cultural ownership. In the long historical perspective,
ownership to such cultural heritage sites can be understood both as sites of intercultural conflict
leading to destruction or plunder, and as sites of ethnic revival leading to claims of repatriation and
heritage status. But the sites and the narratives connected to them can also be understood as reports
from a cultural border zone, where new cultural meanings are being developed all the time. Setting
the stones in motion have changed their (de)localized meanings, and changing contextualizations
have continued to generate new interpretations.
Keywords: agency, border zones, indigenous heritage, repatriation, sacrificial stone
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