In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing.

Finnish lawmakers approved on Thursday a long-awaited legal reform of the Sami parliament that strengthens the rights of ...

In Finland’s northern Arctic landscape, the Indigenous Inari Sámi community practice a unique form of reindeer herding and fishing based on traditional knowledge of the region’s climate ...

Upon first glance, the village of Inari, with a population of 650 people, appears little more than a couple of supermarkets and a few dozen houses along the edge of a large lake.

The legislative amendment centres around the right of the Sámi people to determine who is entitled to vote in elections for ...

Established in 1996 the Sámi Parliament in Inari receives much of its core funding from the Finnish central government, but acts independently to represent the views and will of the Sámi people ...

Dozens of those people identify as "Kemi Sámi", others as Inari Sámi, and the Centre Party claims -- more than a little incredulously -- that they're standing up for the human rights of 'a ...

Inari, a village of only a few hundred inhabitants, is the centre of Sami culture in Finland. In summer, the Ijahis Idja indigenous music festival is held here; in winter, art-house films are ...

Some 10,500 indigenous Sami live in Finland, speaking three different Sami languages. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...