Sami demand rights as indigenous people
Sweden’s indigenous Sami people no longer want to be considered a national minority. Instead the Sami Parliament calls for the
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Sámi petition gains ground in Finland
Sámi associations sent a petition to Finnish MPs and ministers where they asked Finland’s politicians and officials to take the
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High-speed train kills 54 reindeer in Arctic Sweden
A high-speed train killed 54 reindeer belonging to the Laevas Sami association on Thursday near Kiruna, in northern Sweden. The
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Health, climate and security: Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Finland’s Sámi request UN help in securing their rights
The head of Finland’s Sámi Parliament told a United Nations gathering in New York that the Finnish government has robbed
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Sweden to expand teaching of minority languages
The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,
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US seeks Finnish support for Arctic goals
The United States is seeking a closer partnership with Finland through the Arctic Council, which brings together countries on or
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Sami character keyboard app released
Sami languages contain many special characters. Until now you have had to switch between several different language keyboards to be
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London gallery offers multimedia Sámi art
Outi Pieski’s work evokes the bleak snowscapes of the polar north and indigenous Sámi culture stretching back thousands of years.
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Norway: Sami voices not heard in Finnmark liberation ceremony
On the day where messages of thanks and remembrance are flying fast between the Norwegian and Russian peoples gathered in
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The food crisis in the Far North
Global warming could trigger a food crisis in the High North with hunters’ ability to live of the land threatened
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Norway’s radioactive reindeer
A major spike in radioactivity was detected in central Norway’s reindeer and scientists say it’s because of a nuclear accident
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Alarming situation for indigenous peoples in Russia
President of the Norwegian Sàmi Parliament, Aili Keskitalo, presses the alarm bell to world leaders meeting in New York about
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Cultural ties may help prevent suicide in Arctic indigenous peoples, experts say
Amid the grim statistics about suicide in the far north there are some bright spots — and potential lessons for
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Bear hunt quota worries reindeer herders in Sweden’s Arctic
The middle of August starts bear hunting season and the number of bears to be shot in northern Sweden is
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