The draft of a new certification system was presented Wednesday at the Indigenous Peoples Conference in Inari, Finland that ...

Thomas Ekström for The New York Times That sense grew stronger once she started school, she said, and faced bullying and rejection from the non-Sámi children. “I started to realize that I ...

"Stubborn," she said, beaming. Marakatt-Labba was born in 1951 in the mountains on the Swedish side of Sápmi and was raised by a mother who bore 12 children, two of which died. (The artist was ...

“Children were sent to boarding schools and often not allowed to speak Sámi even amongst themselves,” says Aikio. “They could get punished, even beaten sometimes.” World War II delivered ...

She acknowledges that her culture was never hers to bequeath to her children. “How am I to/ explain to them,” she mourns, “that the ruin/ is in my voice.” Kanishk Tharoor is the author of ...