Off the Map Travel has unveiled the “Sápmi Experience,” an Arctic adventure that offers an immersion into the lifestyles of northern Sweden’s indigenous Sámi people with glamping in a newly built Sámi ...
Lapland is a place of wonder for children. But sleighs and huskies have never been part of the Indigenous Sámi culture.
Lapland is more than just meeting Santa, there are outdoor adventures, sauna spa days and reindeer visits to be had this ...
KIRUNA, Sweden -- Squinting in the horizontal rays from the barely rising winter sun, Hans-Goeran Partapuoli scanned knee-deep snow for prints from lynx or wolverine, traditional enemies of his ...
As winter approaches in Finnish Lapland, daylight rapidly retreats. The Sami—the estimated 80,000 people who are indigenous to the region and live in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia—prepare for ...
The District Court of Finnish Lapland has overturned all charges of illicit fishing against four Sámi men from Utsjoki, the country's northernmost municipality. According to the court, the Sámi were ...
It’s already pitch black at 2.30pm when I pull up at Kukkolaforsen, a hotel and cultural centre on the banks of the Torne river. I’m within the Arctic Circle, more than 600 miles north of Stockholm ...
Wind farms near the Aland Islands, an autonomous archipelago belonging to Finland, half way between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic sea. Sami are worried about the effect wind power infrastructure ...
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Amanda Kernell’s scrupulously shaped coming-of-rage drama opens with Christina (Maj-Doris Rimpi), an elderly woman wearing sparkling pearls and a pitiless countenance, turning bitterly obstinate when ...