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 ...

A ládjogahpir is a crownlike, graceful headgear that was used by Sámi women until the end of the 19th century in the Sámi area in what is now northern Norway and Finland ... be the vanishing elements ...

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

In October 2024, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) issued a landmark decision ...

The Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara—who explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous communities of northern Norway—will take over Tate Modern’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sara spoke about the Norwegian indigenous policy, in which people can learn the Sami language and culture at school. Maya was surprised at how different it is to Japan, where some people don’t ...

Sami studies focuses on the Sami people, their languages, culture and history, from the perspective of ... Approximately 50,000 to 100,000 Sami people live in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Some ...