A fighter jet roaring through the grey sky breaks the tranquillity of a boreal forest in northern Finland, one more sign of a growing military presence that is challenging the ability of reindeer ...

We’re also looking into the required changes to Finnish legislation because one of the decisions says that Finland should start an amendment of legislation to recognize Sami collective land rights.

The Sami have herded reindeer across areas of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia for generations and are thought to number between 80,000 and 100,000, with many living above the Arctic ...

A dispute over the rights of the Sami people living in the Finnish Arctic has brought the frictions in Finland's coalition government into sharp focus just months before a parliamentary election.

HELSINKI (AP) — The indigenous Sami people of Europe's Arctic region on Wednesday celebrated their national day with dance, songs and lassoing displays amid worries that their ancient traditions ...

Sanila-Aikio is a reindeer herder and singer (whose song Uuh was the first single in the Skolt Sámi language ever to chart in Finland), and current President of Finland’s Sámi Parliament.

Artist Tia Keobounpheng weaves together familial threads of Finnish, Sámi histories The artist took a research trip back to Sápmi, part of present-day Sweden and Norway. By Alicia Eler ...

Tuomas Aslak Juuso, acting president of the Sami parliament in Finland, said climate change and land use changes -- including the militarisation of the Arctic -- posed special challenges for the ...