As UNDRIP was signed in 2007, global actors have received new guidelines to follow in the question and protection of indigenous rights. Through using UNDRIP together with ILO 169, one can examine actors role in their treatment of indigenous people in order to protect their rights further. The following study investigates to what extent the EU meets these guidelines in their involvement with the Sami living in their member state Sweden. This is as Sweden is one of the countries that has received criticism from the UN in their treatment of said Sami, all from Sweden not ratifying ILO 169 to the ongoing land disputes between the two. Through using the theory of self-determination, this thesis discusses what rights the Sami have in the Union and which policies can be found applicable to their case. The thesis analyses the criticism Sweden receives from the UN and what one can expect from the EU as the Sami are not only their indigenous people but also EU citizens. The WPR method is used to analyse certain EU policies to see how they include and affect the Sami, to help answer the research question of whether the EU meets the expectations set by the UN in their involvement with indigenous rights for the Swedish Sami.