The skulls of 25 Sami people are set to be returned and reburied at a cemetery in northern Sweden from where they were taken – in a historic event aimed at mending ties with the Sami community.
Partykungen, a Swedish company that supplies fancy dress outfits, has removed a costume resembling traditional Sami dress from its website after complaints.
Sweden's indigenous Sami reindeer herders have called for urgent economic support to counter the effects of the unusually warm summer this year, as well as long-term measures to mitigate climate change.
Sweden's unprecedented drought and devastating wildfires are destroying vital grazing pastureland for indigenous Sami reindeer herders, whose livelihoods are already under attack from mining and logging as global warming changes the face of the Arctic.
Car giant Porsche has been granted permission to build a new test facility in northern Sweden despite the Sami village which herds reindeer there insisting it will disturb their way of life.
One of the most senior members of the populist Sweden Democrats has been reported to the police after writing on Facebook that Jewish and Sami people were “not Swedish”.
Sweden's indigenous Sami people have been moving herds of reindeer between low and high grounds for centuries. A British photographer captured the spectacle of hundreds of the animals being relocated in a fascinating series of images.
A Sami village has won a court battle with the Swedish state over hunting and fishing rights in its territory, being awarded significant compensation in the process.
Several Sami villages have applied for emergency assistance to help their reindeer, as the layer of ice under the snow makes it difficult for the animals to find food in northern Sweden.
An amusement park in southern Sweden has been criticized after a visitor noticed that one of their signs described the Sami people as remnants of a "primitive" race.
Honoured at the Venice Film Festival and critically acclaimed, hit movie Sami Blood should make Swedes question why Sami oppression in Sweden is not common knowledge, and it’s time for that to change, argues Sami Parliament member Oscar Sedholm.
It takes a tough kind of person to live in the cold north of Sweden, and given the sparse nature of the region, it also takes a creative one. The ultimate combination of those two traits? Jokkmokk Winter Market's reindeer race.
February 6th is Sami National Day, and the 2017 edition is set to be particularly special as it marks the 100th anniversary of the first Sami congress held by Scandinavia’s indigenous people.
Fewer than 3,000 people live in Jokkmokk, north of the Arctic Circle. But in just a fortnight, more than 40,000 visitors are expected to descend on the town for the annual winter market. The Local spoke to Birgitta Nilsson, who leads the team organizing the four-century-old event.
More than 10,000 reindeer have died in traffic accidents in five years, report <a href="http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2327&artikel=6580681">Sami public radio and broadcaster SVT Sápmi</a>.
Modern-day threats are making life increasingly difficult for Sweden's Sami reindeer herders, as this account inside the annual reindeer pilgrimage shows.
A tiny town in northern Sweden is set to become the first in the country to have Sami street signs after its council approved changing them to include the local tongue.
Sweden needs to set up a “truth commission” and face its colonial past by admitting its historic abuse of its indigenous Sami people, the country’s leading church official said Sonunday.
The Church of Sweden has admitted to running segregated schools for ethnic Sami “based on racist ideas” as it seeks to atone for its part in Sweden’s long repression of its indigenous population.
Sweden's indigenous Sami community scored a symbolic court victory on Wednesday over fishing and hunting rights, in a long-running legal battle with the Swedish state.
