The paper describes our work on participatory and community-based resource collection for the Sami language. This includes community events where participants wrote new Sami Wikipedia articles and took part in speech data collection by reading aloud Sami Wikipedia articles and discussing freely in group conversations. The aim was to increase the number of Sami Wikipedia articles and thereby str...

Background Suicide is a widespread problem among indigenous people residing in the circumpolar Arctic. Though the situation among the indigenous Sami in northern Scandinavia is better than among some other indigenous people, suicide is still regarded as a major public health issue. To adapt prevention strategies that are culturally attuned one must understand how suicide is understood within co...

INTRODUCTION This article examines the effects of a special admission policy for Sami medical students in Norway. In the 1960s, public health and health care were found to be poorer in Sami communities than in the rest of Norway. There were few doctors and none of them spoke Sami. Sami school leavers found it difficult to gain admittance to medical schools. In response to this situation, the me...

OBJECTIVES The incidence of cancer among the indigenous Sami people of Northern Finland is lower than among the Finnish general population. The survival of Sami cancer patients is not known, and therefore it is the object of this study. STUDY DESIGN The cohort consisted of 2,091 Sami and 4,161 non-Sami who lived on 31 December 1978 in the two Sami municipalities of Inari and Utsjoki, which ar...

BACKGROUND This study was part of the international research project "Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood" (CIPA). OBJECTIVES To explore ethnic identity negotiation, an unexplored theme, among indigenous North Sami youth living in a majority Sami community context in Arctic Norway. METHODS A qualitative design was followed using open-ended, in-depth interviews conducted in 2010 wit...

The Sami are an indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Historically, national states have made strong efforts to assimilate the Sami people into the majority populations, and the Sami have experienced stigmatization and discrimination. However, after World War II, there has been a revitalization process among the Sami that was pioneered by the Sami Movement and gradual...

OBJECTIVES The Sami are the Indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and of the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The present review summarizes the main results from studies on cancer morbidity and mortality among the Sami and discusses these results in relation to exposure of known risk factors. STUDY DESIGN Literature review. METHODS A systematic search over the ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the experience of suicidal expressions (death wishes, life weariness, ideation, plans and attempts) in young Swedish Sami, their attitudes toward suicide (ATTS), and experience of suicidal expressions and completed suicide in significant others and to compare with Swedes in general. METHODS A cross-sectional study comprising 516 Swedish Sami, 18-28 years of age toget...

OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this work was to identify the prevalence of self-reported stomach symptoms after consuming milk among Sami and non-Sami adults. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional population-based study (the SAMINOR study). Data were collected by self-administrated questionnaires. METHOD SAMINOR is a population-based study of health and living conditions conducted in 24 municipalit...