The purpose of Norway's Sami Act is to make it possible for the Sami people in Norway to protect and develop their language, their culture and their community life. The first Sami Assembly ...
The Sámi are the Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, having inhabited the fjords, fenlands, valleys and tundra of this region straddling the Arctic Circle for thousands of years.
The Sami are an Arctic Indigenous people whose traditional homeland stretches across Arctic Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia’s Kola Peninsula — a region they collectively refer to as Sapmi.
Of greatest interest to Indigenous Peoples is the proposed addition, in Annex 3 and referring to article 5.1, of a reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ...
Norway has formally apologized to Indigenous peoples and other minority groups for its policy of forced assimilation, which for over a century separated families and sought to eliminate Native ...