Family confirms Sami politician’s suicide
A top politician in Norway’s Sami Parliament who’d been charged with possession of child pornography was found dead…
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Norway Apologizes for Forced Assimilation of Sami and Other Minorities
A policy of “Norwegianization” silenced the languages of Indigenous people and forced their children into boarding schools. The…
Norway apologises to Sami, Forest Finns and Kvens for forced assimilation policy | Norway
The Norwegian parliament has apologised unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for more than a century of…
Elected Sami politician under arrest
A member of Norway’s Sami Parliament (Sametinget) resigned his post this week as a member of its government,…
Sámi languages can still be saved | Indigenous peoples
The alarming prospect of extinction for the Sámi languages of Nordic countries is not as inevitable as your…
Funding cuts could mean death of Sámi languages, say Indigenous parliaments | Indigenous peoples
The Indigenous parliaments of Sweden, Finland and Norway have warned that some Sámi languages could disappear if Stockholm…
‘A struggle to feel pride’: coming-of-age film breaks new ground in Sámi culture | Norway
As a child in northern Norway in the 1980s and 90s, Egil Pedersen struggled to feel a sense…