Who Shall Represent the Sámi? Indigenous Governance in Murmansk Region and the Nordic Sámi Parliament Model

This study examines gender equality in Sámi politics after 2005, the year the Sámi Parliament achieved balanced gender representation. The project seeks to answer the question:

The rationale behind this book is the fact that in addition to the progression of Indigenous and Sámi rights and important previous contributions in the field of Indigenous

In Russia there are or used to be found four Kola Sámi lan- guages (Kildin Sámi, Ter Sámi, Skolt Sámi and Akkala Sámi), plus a newcomer, North Sámi, which has been used by some

In the 1997 Sámi RE curriculum, the general description of the importance of Christianity in Sámi areas does not fully coincide with the emphasis on ‘circumpolar Indigenous

Traces of Catholic origin in both the Coastal Sámi district of Varanger in Norway and the inland Sámi region of the Lule lappmark, in Sweden during the late seventeenth and

The research question is: How do the former foundation documents and the logos of the Nordic Sámi Institute and the Sámi University of Applied Sciences identify the

This article discusses how Sámi reindeer herd- ers’ knowledge of meat quality can strengthen food sovereignty and be used to improve the sustainable economy of reindeer

99 The Sámi political parties saw the establishment of close ties between Indigenous people in the Arctic region through sport as a paramount part of building a Sámi