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Belfast-born electronic duo Bicep on their collaboration with Indigenous musicians that calls the world to witness the Arctic’s climate crisis through the eyes of those who call it home.
From her reindeer farm in Norway, Máret Ravdna Buljo safeguards Sámi culinary heritage and creates some of Hurtigruten's most ...
In the glow of blue spotlights, Laiti rapped while a crowd of more than 300 listened, some of them singing along and dancing.
Why Europe’s only indigenous tribe started a rap festival in the Arctic circle - A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, brings ...
The Sami peoples of northern Scandinavia used to be called Lapplanders. However, this name has now fallen out of fashion, with the Sami claiming that the word ‘Lapp’ really means ‘outcast’. However, I ...
Tapio Luoma’s words were the latest in a series of apologies through which the former state churches in Scandinavia have sought to reset their relations with the Indigenous population of Sápmi, the ...
Join me as I ride Sweden’s iconic X2000 high-speed train in First Class from Stockholm Central Station to Malmö. Despite being over 25 years old, this train still feels modern, smooth, and ...
The bulk of defections consisted of people who registered as having no religious affiliation. Membership in the national church shifted from compulsory to voluntary.
A church in Kiruna, Sweden, designed by architect Gustaf Wickman to resemble a Sami hut. Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...
A 'nomad school' for Sami children in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in 1956. John Firth/BIPs/Getty Images ...