Labba's 75-foot-long embroidery Historjá (2003–07), a piece that aspires to sum up the entirety of the Sámi experience, history is a continuum that starts and finishes in the same place: the forest.

In the zeal of gathering what was thought to be the vanishing elements of Sámi culture, very few hats remained in Sápmi, even though many of the collected ládjogahpirs were simply buried in storage, ...

For nearly 100 years, “attempting to overthrow the state system” has remained a popular method for Russian security forces to ...

Reindeer crowd around Raisa Kitti as soon as she enters the paddock, sticking their big, velvety noses into the sled full of ...

A groundbreaking decision in Europe may signal a shift in the way we engage with Indigenous land rights beyond property rhetoric.

As the Inari Sámi language experiences a revival, cultural practices like reindeer husbandry remain a vital link to the past. Photograph by Nano Calvo, VWPics/Redux The decline began in the 17th ...

And this despite the fact that the region is part of the homeland of the Sami - an Indigenous people and culture that has nothing to do with the Inuit way of life thousands of kilometres away.

Because once it is, and we know how Sami children are best taught, it will reinforce everything from culture and traditional knowledge to language. “And that’s so important because now ...

Since 2019 she has been part of the multi- and cross-disciplinary research project The Ontological politics of Sámi Cultural Heritage that aims to generate novel understanding on Sámi cultural ...

His Ph.D. dissertation Sámi prehistories: The politics of archaeology and identity in northernmost Europe (2009) discusses Sámi prehistory and archaeology, issues of Sámi heritage management, ...