In the glow of blue spotlights, Laiti rapped while a crowd of more than 300 listened, some of them singing along and dancing.

It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti took to the stage at an open-air music festival in Utsjoki, a Finnish village ...

Festival goers in Finland have been treated to a line-up of rap artists - including Indigenous artists performing in their ...

Video. A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, is bringing together rap artists from across the region, including performers ...

Historjá portrays Sámi rituals such as reindeer hunting and deities like Madderakka, the goddess of childbirth. ("We only have female gods," Marakatt-Labba explained.) But more than merely ...

As a highlight of the 93rd Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the world-renowned Stephen Petronio Company—one of the biggest ...

Learn about the Sámi people of the Sápmi region, spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia, in this week's episode of "Lost Cultures: Living Legacies." ...

(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.

The Sámi are no strangers to adaptation. There are an estimated 80,000 living across Sápmi, their ancestral homeland, which spans the northernmost parts of Scandinavia and Russia’s Kola ...

Láhppon/Lost has an extremely physical narrative, an echo of the Kautokeino rebellion told through ballet.  Learn more about ...

A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, is bringing together rap artists from across the region, including performers using the ...