The Sami population in Sweden have a long history of colonial oppression from the Swedish state. This has contributed to the decreasing usage of the Sami indigenous language. But since the 1990s the Sami have strengthened their position and studies have shown that many Sami people now wish to learn the indigenous language. This has led to the hypothesis that Sami people try to reclaim their language in line with a post-colonial and language loyalty theory. The method to research this problem was to conduct semi-structured interviews with Sami people with an additional secondary data analysis as contributing material. The thesis did prove that Sami people do consider their language as an important feature of their culture. The thesis was not able to conclude that the reclaiming of the indigenous language was done in a post-colonial spirit. However, the analysis indicates that the Sami people are still suffering from colonial oppression.