Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer. Under the ...
Reindeer domestication and pastoralism have played a crucial role in the cultural and economic lives of the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia for centuries. This unique relationship between ...
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 ...
Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to its core values of bearing ...
The grounds are dominated by the school’s lavvu, a traditional Sami shelter. Inside, reindeer skins line the ground around an open fire. Throughout the morning, children dart in and out of the ...
This region has a very delicate ecosystem that is currently being disrupted, displacing reindeer populations and, with them, its indigenous Sámi population. Sápmi, as the land is called in its ...