...-winning film about an ancient Sámi legend Ofelaš (Pathfinder, 1987); Gaup has since made several feature length films set in Sápmi that evoke well-known Hollywood genre stipulations, such as the historical epic Kautokeino-Oppøret (The Kautokeino Rebellion, 2008...

...This chapter presents case studies of three Sámi musicians, focusing on their aspirations for collective rights, cultural distinctiveness, and self-determination. Contrary to early twentieth-century fears that vocal genres like joik were disappearing, music has become one of the most important...

...This chapter provides a history of representations of Sámi peoples in Norwegian cinema over the past century, from the various remakes of Laila to comedies in the 1960s and 1970s indigenous rights documentaries.  Mecsei  examines recent developments in film production and Sámi...

...This chapter examines the way in which Sámi filmmaker Tommy Wirkola ironically appropriates contemporary Hollywood films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003-4) to create ironic, postmodern genres films that address...

..., Svensk Kinematograf and Svensk Filmindustri, Dahlquist discusses the exoticization and racialization of the Sámi population that were constituent of the these early films. Such tropes, Dahlquist shows, were common also in other forms of visual mass media at the time, exhibits at the Stockholm open-air...

...This chapter examines the role of the traditional dance of the Skolt Sámi in Finland in constructing and producing identity. The Skolt Sámi are a culturally and linguistically distinct group of the Eastern Sámi. Originally they lived in a widespread area, from Lake Inari eastward to the Russian...

...This chapter examines the practice of reparations for indigenous peoples in Europe, devoting special attention to the case of the Sámi people (living in the Northern countries of the European continent). It suggests that compared to the American continent, Europe, on the whole, appears to have been...

...In a conversation with the editors of the book, Ánneristen Juuso discusses Sámi identity in contemporary Finland. The interview offers a historical and contemporary analysis of the deracination of Sámi peoples and the intentional and strategic formation of a hegemonic Finnish national identity...

...: Canada, Greenland, and Sápmi (the Sámi region in Scandinavia) through participant discussions. In Canada, the focus is not on a specific First Nation or self-government arrangement; instead, Indigenous self-government is approached in broader terms with the focus on the discrepancy between aspiration...

... for nature, reflecting both cultural heritage and ecological mindfulness. It presents hunting as a reflection of identity and a practice of humility, shaped by the traditions of Finnish and Sámi ancestry. AR 15 gun culture guns cases hunting mass shootings memes rifles Ruger Mini weapons nature...

... a northern end of urban Europe, but also encompassed the mythical Lapland, homeland of the Sámi and of natural and supernatural wonders—a contested borderland between the European ‘western’ and Russian ‘eastern’ worlds. This northern fringe of early modern Europe saw dynamic arenas of interaction where new...

...The chapter discusses whether the Sámi Parliaments in three Nordic states can be seen as the institutionalization of Sámi self-determination. Against the historical and international indigenous legal background, the chapter provides an overview of the Parliaments’ legal and administrative status...

... among their collections). Egyptology Peabody Museum (Harvard University), Cambridge (USA) Prehistories (Forntider), exhibition Ramses I, mummy Sydsvenskan, newspaper Sámi (indigenous Scandinavians) WTC (World Trade Centre) World Trade Centre (WTC) fascism nationalism The clattering sound...

... (Essex) Hjemsted Oldtidsparken (Denmark) Museum Sønderjylland (Denmark) Sámi (indigenous Scandinavians) dioramas The displays of articulated, unburned, and fleshed human remains in European museums are often claimed to fixate and simultaneously repulse the modern viewer, and provoke all manner...

...This chapter explores the history of Sámi diasporic communities in North America and their contemporary processes of identity-construction today. In particular, the focus of this work is on those descendants who were part of the “hidden migration” of Sámi people to the United States. Largely...

... topics such as the colonial repression of Sámi indigenous peoples, the violent heritage of Viking king St. Olav, religious and other forms of discrimination, social injustice, and international solidarity are among the themes discussed during the festival. Thus, the “protest” in Protestantism...

...This chapter is a contribution to the literatures on Sámi cultural history, Nordic postcolonial studies, and music festivals. Drawing inspiration from social theory, the chapter explores how the proliferation of festivals has helped in the formation of local and transnational Sámi publics...

... industry studies by focusing not on the industry’s interests but instead on broader cultural issues. The chapter presents case studies of two female Sámi artists and their representations on Spotify, YouTube, MySpace, and artists’ websites, taking various aspects of the services into account, including...

...This chapter builds on Charles Taylor’s concept of the ‘politics of recognition’ to argue that new Sámi cinema practices in Finland eschew the image of the ‘mystical’ or exoticized Sámi and instead addresses contemporary issues of land and language rights and the self-governance of indigenous...