Arctic Finland: 70th annual reindeer cup races held on frozen Lake Inari
After a two-year pause, the annual reindeer race cup was finally taking place on the frozen lake Inari last weekend.
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Culture (Finland)
Finnish Christmas traditions explained
The Christmas season is all about holiday traditions, from decorating the tree to prepping the big meal and waiting for
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How not to promote Arctic tourism – Why Finland’s Indigenous Sami say marketing their region needs to change
Illustration showing an example of destructive Sami stereotypes for the Sami Parliament in Finland’s Culturally Responsible Sami Tourism project. (Artist:
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Can crossborder cooperation help decolonize Sami-language education?
By Eilís Quinn Web editor: Mathiew Leiser
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Sámi rapper Ailu Valle wins Finnish state art prize
An indigenous hip-hop musician and a disability rights activist are among the winners of this year’s state arts prizes. Hip-hop
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BBC lists Sami journalist Sara Wesslin among world’s 100 most influential women
Sara Wesslin is actively working to revitalize the Skolt Sámi language that was on the brink of extinction. The BBC
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The Arctic railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?
The Arctic railway The Arctic railway Building a future… or destroying a culture? By Eilís Quinn An Indigenous nation divided
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Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments
The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally
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Finland hosts first Nordic visual song contest
Danish sign language performer Lea Hyldstrup was named the winner of the Nordics’ first visual song contest for the deaf,
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Snow church opens in southeast Finland
Locals in Lappeenranta in southeast Finland formally opened the city’s snow church, otherwise known as the Church of St. Lawrence
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Sámi-themed Finnish short film makes Sundance lineup
The Finnish short dance film Eatnanvuloš lottit (“Birds in the Earth”, 2018) by Sámi artist and director Marja Helander has
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Budget cuts threaten international Sámi language cooperation
The central organisation for coordinating all issues related to the indigenous Sámi languages in the Nordic countries may not be
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Blog – Sámi school preserves reindeer herders’ heritage with help of internet
In my previous post, I wrote about how a Concorde jet and Chinese tourists have irrevocably changed Lapland in the
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Can Arctic Finland lure Hollywood producers?
It’s becoming a more common sight: Hollywood location scouts travelling to Lapland to see if what they see and hear
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Finlandia book prize shortlist: Climate change, fiction from the North and a political memoir
Finland’s biggest book prizes, the Fiction, Non-Fiction and Juvenile Finlandia awards, will be handed out on 29 November, just as
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