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

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

SAMI (Swedish Artists' and Musicians' Interest Organization) was founded in 1963 and is Sweden's collective management organization that safeguards the rights of artists and musicians under both ...

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 ...

A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on March 11th 2025. You can hear more reports on our homepage or in the app ...

The Sámi Parliament in Finland is calling for reform of the Reindeer Damage Act after the March 13 government refusal to ...

The Icehotel is a world-famous destination in the Swedish Lapland where the food is ... by the eight seasons of Lapland's indigenous Sami tribe. Video by Parapix Executive Producer: Camelia ...

The Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara—who explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous ...

The main historic trajectory in property rights to land was the development of more exclusive rights by the dissolution of common property. In the Swedish lappmarks the opposite occurred, and by the ...

“It hasn’t always been easy to talk about the word ‘decolonization’ in Sapmi, even amongst Sami, because we’ve all been through the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish education systems and ...

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 ...