Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer. Under the ...

Reindeer domestication and pastoralism have played a crucial role in the cultural and economic lives of the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia for centuries. This unique relationship between ...

Every year, thousands of reindeer migrate from Norway to Finland. This year, a whopping 3,500 of them are making the trip, accompanied by dozens of Sami herders — indigenous Scandinavians ...

She belongs to a community of indigenous Sami reindeer herders near the city of Umeå in northern Sweden, who say they've been affected by the climate crisis. Thick fluffy snow usually falls from ...

Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso lives in a Finnish village near the Norwegian border, among the reindeer herding communities of Sweden and Norway. She’s a Sami – the largest indigenous group of people ...

Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to its core values of bearing ...

Building a cultural and educational hub that houses disparate aspects such as a theater, high school, and reindeer herding school seems like enough of a challenge. How about situating it north of ...

The grounds are dominated by the school’s lavvu, a traditional Sami shelter. Inside, reindeer skins line the ground around an open fire. Throughout the morning, children dart in and out of the ...

As well as cultural impacts, there’s also environmental impacts by everything from foreign hunters interfering with traditional Sami activities like hunting, fishing and reindeer herding ...