We’re also looking into the required changes to Finnish legislation because one of the decisions says that Finland should start an amendment of legislation to recognize Sami collective land rights.

A policy of “Norwegianization” silenced the languages of Indigenous people and forced their children into boarding schools.

The Finnish Lapphund's history among the Sámi people is deeply rooted in the Arctic regions, where these dogs played an integral role in the nomadic lifestyle of the indigenous Sámi communities. The ...

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 ...

A ládjogahpir is a crownlike, graceful headgear that was used by Sámi women until the end of the 19th century in the Sámi area in what is now northern Norway and Finland ... the difficult times that ...

Geneva (10 October 2024) - Finland violated the rights of Sámi Indigenous people to culture and land, by granting mineral exploration permits on their territory without an impact assessment or an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The parliaments of the Sami minority in Sweden, Norway, and Finland have made a rare joint ... linguistic and political interests of the Sámi people, although they have no binding legislative ...

And just last week, two different U.N. committees found that Finland violated the rights of the Sámi by granting mineral ...