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Norway’s Indigenous artists are gaining profile at home and abroad. A significant milestone came in 2022, when the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale was rebranded as the Sámi Pavilion ...
Last week, Norway’s Parliament, the Storting, issued an unreserved apology for its assimilation policies towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn peoples. It also laid out a series of resolutions to ...
Microsoft has made its Bing Wallpaper app available on the Microsoft Store for Windows 11 users, but has seemingly opened up a can of controversy when doing so. Windows Latest spotted the release ...
There are anywhere between 50,000 to 80,0000 Sami in Norway, the number of Kvens is unknown but research has estimated there is around 70,000 people with Kven ancestry, no official figure on the ...
Norway has some legislation on the Samis’ right to grazing land, but the Sami have long been at odds with the government over land use in relation to their culture and way of life. The apology ...
Imbued with the parallel decolonial struggle of Sami communities in Northern Norway and those in Livingstone and Zambia’s southern province, the work occupies four tablet screens suspended before ...
Norway announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the indigenous Sámi people after a three-year dispute over the construction of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm. The dispute centred on ...
FILE - Activists wearing traditional Sami outfits sit in protest outside the entrance of Statkraft, a state-owned company that operates 80 of the wind turbines at Fosen, in central Norway's Fosen ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — 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 ...
Fosen Peninsula, Norway – A herd of reindeer running through thick, white snow sounds a bit like thunder. It is a spectacle that has been replayed for at least the past 10,000 years on eastern ...
They face trial in March. At the center of the dispute are the 151 turbines of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in central Norway’s Fosen district, about 450 kilometres ...