Finnish lawmakers approved on Thursday a long-awaited legal reform of the Sami parliament that strengthens the rights of ...

North Sami, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer". Can it survive in a warmer world? Pentti Pieski, a translator and ...

Meet the Sámi, an Indigenous community still thriving in the Sápmi region, which today encompasses Norway, Sweden, Finland, ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe ...

"My Fathers' Daughter," soon to be the first Sámi-language feature to world premiere ... ("Indigenous Police"), was a hit in the Sami community. Written and directed by Pedersen, "My Father's ...

Director Katja Gauriloff has made history with “Je’vida,” the first feature shot in the Skolt Sámi language. “It’s my native tongue, but because of forced assimilation in Finland [of ...

Their language is believed to be spoken by only around 300 people in Finland. Gauriloff did not learn her native tongue as a child, when she was growing up in a small Finnish town. “I thought it ...