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“But, so it is.” Not that one would know by looking at the finished product. Eklund’s modest shop, where he crafts knives inspired by the native Sami people, is located in the basement of a small ...
In the most harrowing scene in “Sami Blood,” the first feature by Swedish-Sami writer-director Amanda Kernell, Elle-Marja, an indigenous teenager from the Lapland region of northern Sweden, is ...
Sámi people in Skaule, Sweden, herd reindeer for the annual marking of the calves in July. Reindeer herders are fighting to save their land and a way of life. ... A close-up of Elena Lango's knives.
Knives are bent to make them easier to grip with gloves and all crafts are decorated. “As we were nomadic, we couldn’t carry beautiful things, so we made useful things beautiful.” 5.
Sweden said on Monday it would return the remains of 18 people to the indigenous Sami people, and ask experts to facilitate handing back more artefacts from the country's museums and universities.
After centuries of persecution, Sweden’s indigenous Sami people are beginning to provide testimony about the injustices they experienced in a recently launched Truth Commission probing the country’s ...
After centuries of persecution, Sweden's indigenous Sami people are beginning to provide testimony about the injustices they experienced in a recently launched "Truth Commission" probing the ...
One of the country’s largest Sami – an indigenous ethnic group – organisations have been trying to arrange a meeting with the Swedish Minister for Culture and Sami Affairs, Parisa ...
The Sámi indigenous people have inhabited northern Sweden for thousands of years. Now their way of life is threatened by giant wind farms, mines rich in rare battery minerals and logging.
Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a ...
Sámi people in Skaule, Sweden, herd reindeer for the annual marking of the calves in July. Reindeer herders are fighting to save their land and a way of life. ... A close-up of Elena Lango's knives.