In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

In October 2024, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) issued a landmark decision stating that Finland had violated the rights of the Sámi Indigenous people to ...

In the zeal of gathering what was thought to be the vanishing elements of Sámi culture, very few hats remained in Sápmi, even though many of the collected ládjogahpirs were simply buried in storage, ...

A new report from Amnesty International says “green colonialism” — the appropriation of land and resources for environmental purposes — threatens indigenous Sámi culture in Sweden ...

You can spend a fascinating day learning about the Sami culture, often in tandem with those reindeer interactions listed above. Before savoring the freshest king crab of your life, you can trek ...

And this despite the fact that the region is part of the homeland of the Sami - an Indigenous people and culture that has nothing to do with the Inuit way of life thousands of kilometres away.

Sámi Grand Prix 2025 will take place on 12 April in Guovdageaidnu, Norway. The event features 12 Sámi artists in song and ...

His Ph.D. dissertation Sámi prehistories: The politics of archaeology and identity in northernmost Europe (2009) discusses Sámi prehistory and archaeology, issues of Sámi heritage management, ...

Since 2019 she has been part of the multi- and cross-disciplinary research project The Ontological politics of Sámi Cultural Heritage that aims to generate novel understanding on Sámi cultural ...

Policies in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia also often involved the education system and church discouraging or actively suppressing Sami languages and culture and forcibly assimilating Sami ...