Lapland is the most northern part of Finland ... Even compostable food, like fruit peels or tea bags, should be carried back. In some areas it is expected for visitors to stick to marked paths, as not ...

It was a Sami song about bears that brought me to Lapland. I heard it in Stockholm. Ailu Gaup, an agile man clad in traditional reindeer ... to make clothes and bags, and horn to make knives ...

Worse, rituals were invented, such as the “Lapland baptism,” a ceremony in which a “shaman” wearing Sámi dress baptizes tourists. The dubious practice continues today. A traditional Sámi ...