In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

Only the indigenous Sami people may legally hunt moose in Laponia. As a result, the animals grow larger there than in other regions of Sweden. Photograph by Erlend Haarberg “We Sami live a ...

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

A new report from Amnesty International says “green colonialism” — the appropriation of land and resources for environmental purposes — threatens indigenous Sámi culture in Sweden ...

Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, Mixed Race in Nordic Europe (2022), pp. 233-261 (29 pages) This article examines twentieth-century northern Swedish geographical isolate studies ...

The Russian attack on Ukraine has had major consequences thousands of miles from the battlefields. Since Russia launched its ...

"Climate change threatens the culture and existence of the Sami indigenous people in two ways," it said ... Norway, Russia and Sweden. The report -- entitled "Just transition or 'green colonialism'?" ...

The Sámi are a semi-nomadic Indigenous people who practise traditional reindeer herding in northern Europe. Their traditional territory, Sápmi, extends throughout parts of Sweden, Norway ...