In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, we explore the rich history of the Sámi. Host Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure's associate editorial director, is joined by three ...
A church in Kiruna, Sweden, designed by architect Gustaf Wickman to resemble a Sami hut. Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In May 2025, Tapio Luoma, archbishop of the ...
Earlier this month, the Finnish government released its Truth and Reconciliation report, which documents years of harm done to the country’s Indigenous Sámi people. Truth and Reconciliation ...
Reindeer crowd around Raisa Kitti as soon as she enters the paddock, sticking their big, velvety noses into the sled full of food she’s towing. They trot behind her as she scatters the pellets in a ...
The Norwegian National Ballet was nervous about taking a new work about a Sami uprising to the area where the historical ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have ...
(The Conversation) — In May 2025, Tapio Luoma, archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, delivered an apology to the Sámi, the only recognized Indigenous people in the European Union.