In most textbooks, history typically only moves forward, from past to present. But in Britta Marakatt-Labba's 75-foot-long embroidery Historjá (2003–07), a piece that aspires to sum up the entirety of ...

The Sámi Museum and Nature Centre—Siida—is one of Northern Lapland’s most popular destinations. Dedicated to the culture of Lapland’s indigenous Sámi people, Siida has recently undergone significant ...

The Sami Cultural Center of North America has recently opened a headquarters in the Lakeside Professional Building. The Sami (pronounced "sahmi" and often spelled "saami") are the indigenous people of ...

The history of reindeer in Alaska is complex. To help me understand I interviewed Nathan Muus, writer, musician, and yoiker. Muus is a Sámi American leader who’s been involved in the Sámi American ...

German soldiers' accounts from Finnmark during World War II, often described the Sami as "noble savages" in a fabulous and ...

(The Conversation) — In May 2025, Tapio Luoma, archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, delivered an apology to the Sámi, the only recognized Indigenous people in the European Union.

There’s no shortage of coffee shops on the University of Minnesota campus, but none of them let customers drink coffee under an 8-foot-tall tent — yet. That’s just one of the ways Dinkytown’s newest ...

Sámi writer Linnea Axelsson’s AEdnan uses the ancient form to critique Sweden’s historical mistreatment of its indigenous people. Anna Nordlander, Sami Woman and her Child (1870s). Like the work it ...

Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad ...

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 ...

The Sami culture runs deep in Carlton County -- though few may realize it. A recent visit to the Fond du Lac Reservation by a Sami television crew from Norway put the local Sami culture in the ...