The following study investigates the Swedish state-Sámi relationship through conducting a case study using the method of a qualitative content analysis. Therefore, qualitatively coding is used to analyze how the mineral strategy (2013), as main data, constructs the state-Sámi interest in land use. Codes are therefore developed following on the one hand state/industry claims to national interest and on the other Sámi historic cultural claims. By adapting the coloniality of power, theorized by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano, the silences and ambivalent language identified is analyzed and contextualized in consideration of Sweden settler colonial past. The continuous organization of knowledge reducing the Sámi community to solely reindeer husbandry is argued to be a form of structural violence, as conceptualized by Galtung. Eventually the suggested findings indicate a total erasure if structures of coloniality are not recognized and considered in future studies to eventually achieve positive peace.