The Sámi Parliament in Finland is calling for reform of the Reindeer Damage Act after the March 13 government refusal to ...
Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being ...
The main historic trajectory in property rights to land was the development of more exclusive rights by the dissolution of common property. In the Swedish lappmarks the opposite occurred, and by the ...
Sara made headlines in 2017 with Pile o' Sápmi Supreme, a haunting installation of 400 bullet-pierced reindeer skulls ...
The mild Swedish winter has made it difficult for reindeer to find their own food. Photo: Paul Wennerholm/TT "There is just one explanation and that's climate change," Jan Rannerud, chair of the Sami ...
Local Sami representatives have opposed parts of the rally and appealed the County Administrative Board's permit for the track, just a week before the rally, saying there were reindeer in some of ...
The Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara—who explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous ...
Finland -- both of which threatened reindeer herding, it said. Amnesty and the Sami Council urged authorities in Nordic countries to increase consultations with Sami populations and seek their ...
The grounds are dominated by the school’s lavvu, a traditional Sami shelter. Inside, reindeer skins line the ground around an open fire. Throughout the morning, children dart in and out of the ...
And how? What can set us free? The film, akin to “Sami Blood” and “Charter,” is “a choir piece of different people’s memories. Those in reindeer herding who lost their fathers early ...