Yle Sapmi

Hunting bears in Finnish North

To a great extent, the annual cycle of Tuomas Väänänen from Inari, Finland, depends on the movements of bears. He starts to observe them as soon as they have woken up from hibernation in the spring.
October 18, 2018

Council of Europe recommends that Finland grant permanent funds for promotion of Sámi languages

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts has published its recommendations to the State of Finland for improving the situation of minority languages. The recommendations have been delayed because the report of the Finnish authorities to the Council of Europe was submitted more than six years after the deadline.
October 17, 2018

Skábmagovat Film Festival 20 years: spotlights Arctic indigenous films

According to Artistic Director Jorma Lehtola, the public will be able to watch indigenous films from Sápmi, Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia at the 2019 Skábmagovat Film Festival in Inari, Finland.
October 01, 2018

Researchers: Finnish Sámi Act and its revision drain Sámi Parliament of energy

The present situation in which the Sámi Parliament of Finland must use a great deal of energy for election issues at the expense of other activities is not acceptable, researchers say.
September 14, 2018

Young Sámi training for non-violent resistance

The association Finnish Sámi Youth, Greenpeace and the artist group Suohpanterror arranged training in non-violent resistance in Inari, Finland
September 12, 2018

Protesters in Finnish Sápmi draw red lines against railroad to Arctic Ocean

People are taking a stand for nature in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi, by showing concretely, through red lines, where they draw the line.
September 10, 2018

Sámi art at Márkomeannu Festival: Imagining the worst possible future

A young Sámi artist from Inari, Finland, made images of what Sápmi, the land of the Sámi, might look like in a hundred years. Sunna Kitti’s works of art are partly gloomy, but they also show a spirit of hope and community.
August 06, 2018

Fishing salmon with a Skolt Sámi cast net brings villagers together in Norway

A wide cast net has been spread on the cliff on the Skoltefossen Falls near the mouth of the River Neiden in Norway. The Skolt Sámi have fished with such a cast net, also known as käpälä (“the paw”), on the River Neiden for centuries.
July 31, 2018

No fishermen on Europe’s most popular salmon river though all the fishing licences have been sold

The shores of the River Teno (Tana) are usually crowded with fishermen and women in late June, but, according to an entrepreneur from Nuorgam, Finland, there were almost no-one there this summer.
July 12, 2018

Lapland multiartist Niillas Holmberg hopes to contribute to the health of society through his art

The art of Niillas Holmberg, a poet, musician and actor from Utsjoki, Finland, has become more and more political over the years. This summer, Holmberg publishes his first thoroughly political book of poetry.
June 29, 2018

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