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These days, however, the Nordic country’s fight against climate change by ramping up renewable energy is ironically hurting the Sami people. This issue has been dubbed green colonialism.
This campsite across the Tromsøysundet strait is far away from the glare of Tromsø’s city lights and is a quiet, reflective place in which to learn about Norway’s Sami people — and as an a ...
Norway reached Wednesday an agreement with the Sami people ending a dispute over Indigenous right that led to activists blocking several entrances to Norwegian government offices over a wind farm ...
The Sámi people are indigenous to Sápmi, a cultural region of Europe and Russia that covers the northern parts of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. For centuries, the Sámi people relied on ...
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 ...
The activists say that a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of the rights of Indigenous people ... and 60,000 Sami live in central and northern Norway.
Christer visits the Finnmarksvidda plateau for the Sami people’s rich food traditions. Chef Christer Rødseth travels to Northern Norway, where he discovers the rich food traditions of the Sami ...
Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors highlight that climate change threatens Sámi people in two ways ...
All public buildings in Norway will hoist the Sami flag, and events and exhibitions will be held to mark Sami Day. The day marks the anniversary of the first Sami Assembly, held in Trondheim in 1917.
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 ...
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