Director Katja Gauriloff has made history with “Je’vida,” the first feature shot in the Skolt Sámi language. “It’s my native tongue, but because of forced assimilation in Finland [of the Sámi people] ...
Finnish director Katja Gauriloff won the top prize this week at the Finnish Film Affair’s showcase of fiction works in progress for “Je’vida,” an intimate historical drama that is the first film ever ...
Last week, the Swedish government announced $175,000 for preliminary work for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission on historical injustices against the Sámi, an Indigenous people ...
Sami Parliament of Norway has chosen Acapela Group to develop North Sami language text-to-speech. A small audience for usual developments of text to speech for new languages. But Sami text to speech ...
"The texts of a 41-year-old writer always win against what is written by a 10-year-old girl." These remarks are uttered by Sámi writer Elin Anna Labba, who compares the texts written in the Sámi ...
Katarina Barruk wants you to take everything you know about language, and put it aside for a moment. As an artist from the Lusspie region in northern Sweden who sings in a dialect spoken by fewer than ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to ...
Vast open territories in the Arctic have been claimed and named as though they were blank white pieces of canvas. But the ...