Archaeologists analyzed trees engraved by the Indigenous Sámi of Arctic Europe, revealing the significance of these rare ...
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 ...
A policy of “Norwegianization” silenced the languages of Indigenous people and forced their children into boarding schools.
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.
And just last week, two different U.N. committees found that Finland violated the rights of the Sámi by granting mineral ...
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 ...