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

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, ...

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

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

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.

In Finland, there is a national law that aims to protect the cultural heritage and identity of the Indigenous Sámi people. This law establishes certain criteria for determining who belongs to the Sámi ...

The Sámi Parliament in Finland is calling for reform of the Reindeer Damage Act after the March 13 government refusal to ...

Sami studies focuses on the Sami people, their languages, culture and history, from the perspective of several disciplines. The Sami languages are examined particularly within the framework of ...

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 ...