This article elucidates the issue of new speakerness via a case study centering on one adolescent –“Elle”– and her attempts to claim and regain Sami, a national minority language in Sweden. Attending Sami school, ever since childhood, Elle “struggled” to learn more Sami and to be recognized as a Sami speaker. Only lately Elle began to employ Sami actively in speech, reclaiming her Sami voice. A condition that for Elle could have ended in language loss was, thus, by her attempts to regain the language, altered into a condition of language revival. It is displayed how Elle’s narratives are related to language ideologies and language policies in Swedish society, to negative attitudes towards Sami culture, and to prejudice. By learning and actively employing Sami in writing and speech, Elle exerts agency, and by taking the great step to begin speaking, Elle enunciates her right to speak Sami and to her representation. The agency that Elle exerts by employing Sami is favorable for her own language evolution, but could also possibly add to Sami language revival and to the linguistic empowerment of other speakers/learners of Sami.