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The mild Swedish winter has made it difficult for reindeer to find their own food. Photo: Paul Wennerholm/TT "There is just one explanation and that's climate change," Jan Rannerud, chair of the Sami ...
In the Swedish lappmarks the opposite occurred, and by the end of the nineteenth century the old system with privately assigned land finally disappeared when Samis obtained lawful common user rights ...
Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso lives in a Finnish village near the Norwegian border, among the reindeer herding communities of Sweden and Norway. She’s a Sami – the largest indigenous group of people ...
A groundbreaking decision in Europe may signal a shift in the way we engage with Indigenous land rights beyond property rhetoric.
The Go Jetters are in snowy Norway to learn about the reindeer that are cared for by the local Sami people. The Go Jetters are in snowy Norway to learn about the reindeer that are cared for by the ...
The the animals unable to dig through the ice to get to their food, the Sami reindeer herders are being faced with mass migrations and mounting costs for emergency feeding. Sajos, the Sami ...
Autonomous Sami Law, ed. Christina Allard and Susann Funderud Skogvang ... Mikkel Nils Sara, “Siida and Traditional Sámi Reindeer Herding Knowledge”, Northern Review 30 (2009): 153–78. Inger Johanne ...
In the exhibition Johtingeaidnu – The Path Within, Finnish artist Emilia Tikka, Sámi reindeer herder Oula A. Valkeapää, and ...
As well as cultural impacts, there’s also environmental impacts by everything from foreign hunters interfering with traditional Sami activities like hunting, fishing and reindeer herding ...
A new wave of positive-impact experiences in northern Finland is finally allowing the Sámi to benefit from the tourism boom.