Eight out of ten Norwegians say Sami culture is important for Norway, new survey shows
Norwegians express great support for the fact that Sami culture is an important part of Norwegian culture. Still, few believe they know Sami culture and…
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Statistics Norway: Fewer people live in Sami areas
The population in Sami areas has fallen by about 1% in recent years, per year, according to new Statistics Norway (SSB) figures. The population in…
PHOTO: Denmark returns Samí artifact thanks to Norwegian pressure
Denmark will permanently return a rare artifact drum to the Sami Museum in Karasjok. It was confiscated during the witchcraft trials in 1691 and returns…
Sami and Kven to be used on Norwegian crossing signs
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will issue a number of border crossings written with Samí and Kven on a mostly in Northern Norway. Sami and…
Sweden sets up a truth commission to investigate abuse against the Sámi
Sweden has decided to set up a truth commission to map and investigate abuse of the Sámi population in the country. “The government has a…
New President of the Sámi Parliament on Sámi agitation: “It eats up the soul”
“Sámi agitation is socially destructive,” said Sámi President Silje Karine Muotka. Work against agitation was mentioned first in a declaration from the new Sámi Parliamentary…
The Sámi: A people often forced to live between two worlds
The Sámi people, indigenous inhabitants of areas in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, have been living on the northern edges of the world for thousands…
Strong Samí reactions to mining in Kvalsund
Strong Samí reactions to mining in Kvalsund The Norwegian Ministry of Industry has granted an operating license to copper mining in Kvalsund in Finnmark. The…
Bane Nor should pay for dead Reindeer
Bane Nor should pay for dead Reindeer The Reindeer district in Nordland, which has lost around 135 reindeer after being hit by trains recently, believes…
Sami should receive citizenship pay
Sami candidate believes all Sami should receive citizenship pay Because of norwegianisation the state is morally obliged to give all Sami citizen citizens pay, says…
Minister Sanner meets representatives from Tysfjord
Minister Sanner meets representatives from Tysfjord Minister of the Interior, Jan Tore Sanner (Conservatives), has a meeting with representatives from Tysfjord Municipality on Wednesday how…
Sami jubilation for a ‘truth commission’
Sami jubilation after majority for a ‘truth commission’ on assimilation The Norwegian Association of Lapps (Norske Samers Riksforbund) says it is a victory for the…
Tysfjord cases are a national tragedy
Sami Parliament President: Tysfjord cases are a national tragedy The police have previously stated that it is too early to say whether the cases relate…
COMMEMORATIVE COIN TO MARK THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SAMI CONGRESS
Today, Norges Bank issued a 20-krone special edition circulation coin to mark the centenary of the first Sami congress. The coin’s centenary motif, “Interplay”, was…
Solberg: Norwegianisation policy is a black chapter
Prime Minister Erna Solberg took issue with ‘Norwegianisation policies’ during the centenary of the first Sami congress in Trondheim. – The Norwegianisation policy is a…
Sami anniversary to be celebrated across Norway
Never before has the Sami National Day been so broadly trumpeted as it will be when the Centenary of the first Sami Congress is celebrated…
Sami Week, Tromsø 2016
Sami Week is arranged in Tromsø 1 – 7 February The Sami Week in Tromsø is held every year in connection to the Sami National…
