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Meet the Sámi, an Indigenous community still thriving in the Sápmi region, which today encompasses Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia.
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The Sámi people are indigenous to Sápmi, a cultural region of Europe and Russia that covers the northern parts of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. For centuries, the Sámi people relied on ...
The Sámi, the indigenous people in the far north of Europe and Russia, are ready to share their stories with the world. But only under certain conditions, says film commissioner Liisa Holmberg ...
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. Story by Nell Lewis, CNN ...
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.
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.
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 reindeer.
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. Story by Nell Lewis, CNN ...