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

Disclosure information is available on the original site. In October 2024, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) issued a landmark decision stating that ...

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

Sámi people have observed their national day since the 1990s, although it wasn’t written into Finnish calendars until 2004. The Sámi are the only indigenous people of the European Union. Many of ...

A special linguistic focus for scholars of Sami studies at the University of Helsinki is the Northern Sami language. Approximately 50,000 to 100,000 Sami people live in Finland, Sweden, Norway and ...

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 western Arctic, an area they refer to ...