The purpose of Norway's Sami Act is to make it possible for the Sami people in Norway to protect and develop their language, their culture and their community life. The first Sami Assembly ...

Joar Nango is one of only a few practicing Sámi architects in the world. He has travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand to present, ...

A policy of “Norwegianization” silenced the languages of Indigenous people and forced ... Sweden and Norway, which is home to the largest Sami population. The Kvens and Forest Finns are ...

And just last week, two different U.N. committees found that Finland violated the rights of the Sámi by granting mineral exploration permits in Finnish Sápmi — the homelands of the Sámi peoples that ...

Norway has formally apologized to Indigenous peoples and other minority groups ... The Norwegian parliament issued the apology this week to the Sami, Kven and Forest Finns and outlined the actions ...

Few places are experiencing the effects of climate change as vividly as the Arctic. Scientists say temperatures in the far north have risen by more than two degrees Celsius since the industrial ...

The Sami are an Arctic Indigenous people. There is no census just for ... Their traditional homeland stretches across Arctic Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia’s Kola Peninsula.

(Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic) The Sami are an Arctic Indigenous people whose traditional homeland spans the Arctic regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia’s ...

More information: Ingela Bergman et al, X-marked trees: carriers of Indigenous Sámi traditions, Antiquity (2024). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.184 Journal information: Antiquity ...