An Account of the SámiThe year 1910 marked a milestone in Smi cultural and literary history. In that year, the Smi wolf hunter and reindeer herder Johan Turi produced his Muitalus Samiid birra, the first secular book ever published in a Smi language. Turis work an eloquent, at times poignant exploration of Smi history, livelihoods, and culture aimed at making state authorities in Sweden and Norway aware of the intricacies and value of the indigenous culture of the Smi.

Things aren’t much better with boys either

Author Elle Márjá Vars is a journalist and editor and is a central figure in the cultural life of the North Sámi people

and science – crucial ingredients in the process of healing and encounters with suffering

Burton Nelson

an artist who lives alone in the forest outside the village

Antiphony [Vekselsang]

family tragedy

the less she feels she understands

Yet amazing theatre is happening throughout all of the Nordic region that doesn't reach our shores because of the language barrier

The narrator

University of Akureyri

Drawing upon his own life experiences