In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, we explore the rich history of the Sámi. Host Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure's associate editorial director, is joined by three ...

Most Americans know about the indigenous nations Navajo, Cherokee, and Sioux, with deep histories that once shaped North ...

The Sámi, an Indigenous people of the Arctic Circle, stretch across four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. They have their own language and culture which in the past have been actively ...

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. Speaking on behalf of ...

Lapland is a place of wonder for children. But sleighs and huskies have never been part of the Indigenous Sámi culture.

Reindeer crowd around Raisa Kitti as soon as she enters the paddock, sticking their big, velvety noses into the sled full of food she’s towing. They trot behind her as she scatters the pellets in a ...

How strange would it be to live in a world of midnight suns and polar nights? Where the sun hangs in the sky for months at a time, bringing with it at least a meager warmth, only to disappear entirely ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Meet the Sámi, an Indigenous community still thriving in the Sápmi region, which today encompasses Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia. In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: ...