In October 2024, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) issued a landmark decision ...

Approximately 50,000 to 100,000 Sami people live in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Some live outside the actual Sami regions, for example in capital cities. Sami studies is also focused on ...

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 ...

In a personal insight, she explains why. Try to imagine this: you’re a 13-year-old Sámi youth living in Inari, located on the Finnish side of Sápmi, the home area of Sámi people. It’s your 3rd day in ...

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 ...

Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso lives in a Finnish village near the ... of Sweden and Norway. She’s a Sami – the largest indigenous group of people in Europe – and one of a few who herd reindeer ...

THUNDER BAY — A recent four-day tour of Finland left local MP Patty Hajdu appreciating the multiple connections between the ...

The Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara—who explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous ...

"Climate change threatens the culture and existence of the Sami indigenous people in two ways," it said ... across the vast open spaces of Arctic Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden.