Indigenous Sámi community weighs in on Finland’s truth and reconciliation process
Over the summer months, the Office of the Prime Minister organised a series of 29 hearings across the traditional northern
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Video – Arctic LGBT communities meet in northern Norway for Pride parade
Russian, Norwegian, Sámi and Finnish LGBT communities met in Kirkenes, Arctic Norway for the second year in a row
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Saami Council says planned Arctic railway threatens reindeer herders
A railway will affect the income and existence of the reindeer herding communities in the entire area from Rovaniemi in
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Gold mining in northern Finland hurts reindeer, says Natural Resources Institute
Gold mining in Lapland (northern Finland) is causing more ecological problems than a local association has reported, according to the
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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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Longread – The quest to turn Norway’s Arctic coast into Northern Europe’s wind power hub
The big winds that come in from the Barents Sea carry flush green power and profits. But developers are held
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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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Blog – In Santa’s hometown, are tourism and a railway threatening Sámi culture?
Located just a few kilometers to the south of the Arctic Circle, the unassuming Finnish city of Rovaniemi does not
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Arctic Indigenous food culture takes the day at international cookbook awards
A book showcasing the recipes of Indigenous peoples from across the Arctic took the day at the Gourmand International Cookbook
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Kids’ band booted from Finnish show over “racist” Indigenous costume
Producers at Finland’s public broadcasting company recently decided to remove inserts by the children’s music group “Herra Heinämäki’s Shed Orchestra”
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Legal battle over hunting and fishing in Sweden’s far north
A legal battle between the Swedish state and a Sami community in the far north is heading to the Supreme
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Film exploring racism against Sami wins big at Swedish film awards
“The Nile Hilton Incident” and “Sami Blood” took home gold at this week’s Guldbagge ceremony presented by the Swedish Film
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Roads deadly for reindeer in Arctic Sweden
Twice as many reindeer have been killed on the roads in northern Sweden this month compared to the same period
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Norway and Sweden in quarrel over cross-border reindeer grazing
«The gras is always greener on the other side of the fence,» is a well know cliché. In Norway, Sweden
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Norway to count votes manually in fear of election hacking
Norway is the second European country this year to announce trust in good old paper counting. People goes to the
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