We travel to the high Arctic today with fiction about the Sami people as well as short stories from Swedish authors, all from University of Minnesota Press. “The Home of the Drowned”: by Elin Anna ...
There's much more to the Sámi languages than different words for snow. Photo: Anna Karin Drugge / TT There are about ten Sámi languages alive today, spoken across the northern parts of Scandinavia and ...
OSLO (Reuters) - The sequel to Walt Disney Co's 2013 hit animated musical "Frozen" is generating excitement among indigenous Sámi people in northern Europe, whose culture the movie has taken ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to ...
Elin Anna Labba, trans. from the Swedish by Fiona Graham. Univ. of Minnesota, $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-517-91330-4 Sámi journalist Labba makes the trauma of the forced removal of her people from ...
Reindeer herding and forest management can be better integrated to benefit nature restoration, conservation and commercial wood production.
The genetic origin of the Sami is enigmatic and contributions from Continental Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia have been proposed. To address the evolutionary history of northern and southern Swedish ...
This is where the skulls will be reburied in Lycksele. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT The skulls of 25 Sami people are set to be laid to rest in what's expected to be a poignant ceremony in northern ...