Written by guestblogger Stéphane Aubinet, a researcher from Belgium.

The yoik first came to me long before I started to do “research” about it, when I was a teenager living in Belgium. I was immediately struck by its immediacy, its…

Here is a list of Sámi gods, goddesses and other mythical entities. 

So much has been forgotten about the Sami world view and beliefs and words over the years and most of the written material from the pre-christian beliefs where…

This blog is in English so that as many people as possible understand what we write about. 

As Samis living in Norway with alot of foreign speaking friends and quiantances we know that translating everything to tree languages is ALOT…

Gárdin-Ingá to the right, and her friend at Gárdin Mountainhouse in Karasjok.

Most of the Sami people use two names nowadays, – the Sami and the registered name. But the Sami names are less and less used, mostly of practical…

Photo: A view from the first printed map of the Nordic countries, designed by Olaus Magnus and published in Venice in 1539. Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus / Northern Lights Road. University Library in Tromsø – 1999. (public domain)

The…

The later years I have met more and more people who are interested in joiking. Both Sami people and daža (non-samis) want to learn and know more about what joiking is and how to do it. Alot of them…

Who is Sami and who is not? This is a question that a lot of people are concerned about at he moment. The later years there are so many people who have just discovered that they are Sami, both in…

” Now is the most important moment in history of humankind. Because now we have to take a choice to even have a future. This time in history we have the means to destroy ourselves. But we can choose not…

Photo by Johan Mathis Gaup

The later years – I would say the last 6-7 years there have popped up tons of Sami music artists. When I started recording music in Sami language, around 2004, there where not many bands…

Photo of Jungle Svonni and Lorenzo Seuny Izquierdo Arroyo by Marijke Kodden.

What does it mean to be Sámi, or indigenous in any tribe for that matter?

Well, the other day I sat digesting my dinner at a restaurant in…

Written by guest blogger, postdoctoral researcher Francis Joy, also posted on Agon.fi 2018.

Abstract

The practice of Sámi shamanism is a cultural phenomenon, which has a long and ambiguous history throughout Sápmi, which are primarily, the northernmost areas of…

JOIK or YOIK : Originally, joik referred to only one of several Sami singing styles, but in English the word is often used to refer to all types of traditional Sami vocals.

• LUOHTI, JUOIGGUS – Northern Sami

• VUELIE…