| Niillas Somby | |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1948 [1] |
| Birth Place: |  Norway |
| Occupation: | Sami political rights activist, cultural worker. |
Niillas Somby (formally known as Nils Somby)[2] is a Sami political rights activist, journalist and photographer. He was one of seven hunger strikers during the Alta controversy,[2] [3] and lost an arm during a sabotage action.[2] [4]
The documentary film Give Us Our Skeletons (directed by Paul-Anders Simma in 1999) follows Somby’s quest to retrieve the heads of his ancestors, Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta, from the University of Oslo in Norway.[5]