The Swedish government has greenlit a controversial iron mine that Indigenous people say threatens their livelihoods. Beowulf Mining, a British company, will now begin an environmental review of its ...

The Sámi, the EU’s only recognised indigenous people, are calling for a greater role in EU decision-making, arguing that policies developed in Brussels often affect their traditional way of life ...

Meet the Sámi, an Indigenous community still thriving in the Sápmi region, which today encompasses Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia. In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: ...

Earlier this month, the Finnish government released its Truth and Reconciliation report, which documents years of harm done to the country’s Indigenous Sámi people. Truth and Reconciliation ...

KIRUNA, Sweden — High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. The lavvu is set up in the traditional way: three, debarked birch rods holding ...

Sámi Pavilion artist Máret Ánne Sara on the tundra close to Šuoššjávri, Kárášjohka (photo by Michael Miller / OCA) SÁPMI, Norway, Sweden, and Finland — Sámi artist Pauliina Feodoroff says that “to be ...

The sami are used to change. The indigenous people has been pushed north by settlers and pulled south by economics. They now number just 70,000, a small share of the population of the Sapmi, their ...

Some dog breeds were developed to retrieve birds. Others were bred to guard livestock or pull sleds. But one fluffy, friendly ...