Ancestral Knowledge
as a value for the future In the north of Europe lies a territory older than the borders that were later drawn across it. It is called Sápmi: the traditional homeland of the Sámi. This area stretches across what is now Northern Norway, Northern Sweden, Northern Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sápmi is not a modern state, but a cultural, spiritual and ecological landscape. It is a territory of languages, family histories, reindeer, rivers, mountains, forests, memories and routes passed down through generations. The Sámi are often captured in a single image: the reindeer herder in a snowy landscape. That image is not incorrect, but it is too limited. Not all Sámi are reindeer herders. Sámi identity also...