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Tag: sámi

Bring out their dead

10 November, 2020 Kevin McGwin

Daily Parse | Sweden’s Sámi want the country’s museums to hand over the remains of their ancestors

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All Europe’s their stage

4 March, 2019 Kevin McGwin

Foreground | Indigenous voices are having an uncharacteristically strong showing in the run-up to Europe’s kitchiest hour

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Fake names

5 February, 2019 Kevin McGwin

Foreground | Critics of plans to put up Sámi road signs in Tromsø, Norway, accuse the city of trying to rewrite history Kevin McGwin Attentive

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What he thinks about when he thinks about food

3 July, 2018 Kevin McGwin

ArctiCulture | As a reindeer herder, Issát Turi always knows where his food comes from. It wasn’t until he tried to set his craft down

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Orchestral Joik, Nordlysfestivalen 2018 opening concert (Photo: Marius Fiskum/Nordlysfestivalen)

The joik is never the same

10 February, 2018 Kevin McGwin

ArctiCulture | Frode Fjellheim’s Orchestral Joik Project is more than just traditional Sámi singing backed by symphonic sound

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Rewriting the story of the Arctic

26 January, 2018 Kevin McGwin

ArctiCulture | The Sámi Film Institute is working with film-development institutes in Greenland and Nunavut to establish a fund to support indigenous filmmaking

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Respected, and now permitted

9 May, 2016 Kevin McGwin

Foreground | The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have changed their minds about allowing the Saami to wave their flag during Europe’s campiest hour

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Arctic Watch

  • Extreme Weather and the Arctic Meltdown
  • The Arctic: a delicate icy ecosystem
  • MOSAiC Science lectures – Arctic Sea Ice Ecology

Related thinks

  • Far but not so far: Italy’s Role and Interests in the Arctic (The Arctic Institute)
    11 November, 2020
  • Russia Unveils New Arctic Development Strategy: Focal Points and Key Priorities (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
    10 November, 2020
  • A Danish Approach to the Arctic (The International Affairs Review)
    10 November, 2020

Announcements

  • Minister Vandal announces appointments to the Board of Directors of Polar Knowledge Canada
    11 November, 2020
  • MEPC75 Webinar: Why the IMO’s draft Arctic HFO regulation will not protect the Arctic, and how to fix it
    11 November, 2020
  • Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves closely related
    11 November, 2020
  • Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Lake Bed Deep Beneath the Greenland Ice
    11 November, 2020
  • Sweden’s strategy for the Arctic region 2020
    11 November, 2020
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