Summary: ‘Sámetinget’: the Sámi Parliament | Åjtte Museum in Jokkmokk (Sami culture) | Giuseppe Acerbi (explorer of Finnish Lapland) | ‘A voice for the Arctic’: an ABC interactive project | ‘The Sun, My Father’: a poetry collection by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää | National Nordic Museum (Seattle): ‘Interplay with Ailloš’ | Salla (Finnish Lapland) is warming three times faster than the rest of Earth | Lapland, trading card from the ‘Natives in Costume’ series (1886) | Saariselkä: adventures in Lapland | The Sámi flag | ‘Nordic World’ podcast #22: ‘The Sámi: custodians of the Far North’
‘Sámetinget’: the Sámi Parliament
2023 marks 30 years since the Sámi Parliament was inaugurated in Sweden, after decades of organised political work for autonomy
Åjtte Museum in Jokkmokk (Sámi culture)
Located in Jokkmokk, just north of the Arctic Circle, Åjtte is the world’s leading museum on Sámi culture
Giuseppe Acerbi (explorer of Finnish Lapland)
During his travels, Giuseppe Acerbi recorded hundreds of pages of observations on the music, language, clothing and customs of the Sámi people
‘A voice for the Arctic’: an ABC interactive project
Norway’s Arctic tundra: a wave of “green colonisation” is threatening the Sámi indigenous people’s way of life in the Arctic. Can having a voice to parliament save it?
‘The Sun, My Father’: a poetry collection by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Published in 1991, ‘The Sun, My Father’ is a poetry collection by Finnish Sámi author Nils-Aslak Valkeapää that won the ‘Nordic Council Literature Prize’ in 1991
National Nordic Museum (Seattle): ‘Interplay with Ailloš’
The yoik is the traditional form of Sámi song; it has its own musical rules and a deep connection to nature and all living beings
Salla (Finnish Lapland) is warming three times faster than the rest of Earth
The tiny Arctic town of Salla (Finnish Lapland), which has often broken records for the coldest winters on Earth, is now warming nearly three times faster than the rest of the planet
Lapland, trading card from the ‘Natives in Costume’ series (1886)
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art: Lapland, trading card from the ‘Natives in Costume’ series (N16), Teofani Issue, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands (ca.1886)
Saariselkä: adventures in Lapland
Saariselkä (Finnish Lapland) is excellent for all kinds of winter adventures
The first ‘official’ Sámi flag was recognized and inaugurated on 15 August 1986 by the 13th Nordic Sámi Conference in Åre, Sweden
‘Nordic World’ podcast #22: ‘The Sámi: custodians of the Far North’
In this episode we investigate the Sámi people, their origins, where they live today, the languages that they speak, their culture and day-to-day life and some of the difficulties and persecution that they have faced, and continue to face today.
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