Northwords
a northern state of mind
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Forcible displacement of the Sámi in Norway and Sweden
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Photo of Sámi herders in the 1920s In April the University of Minnesota Press will release the powerful book The Rocks Will Echo Our So...
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Sápmi in German Museums, New Beginnings
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In my recent book, From Lapland to Sápmi, I touched on Sámi objects that ended up in German museums, largely in the 19 th and 20 th ce...
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Anna-Stina Svakko and the Arctic Indigenous Design Project (AIDA)
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Anna-Stina Svakko, Sámi Duojár Anna-Stina Svakko's work has always impressed me for its beauty and preciseness. Born near Kiruna, she h...
Thursday, November 9, 2023
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi, now in its second edition
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Join me for a reading in Seattle from The Palace of the Snow Queen at Third Place Books in Ravenna . November 15, 7 pm. RSVPs requested....
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Liisa-Rávná Finbog in a conversation with Maria Karlsen on duodji
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This conversation, recorded a couple of years ago on YouTube between the Sámi scholar and duojár Liisa-Rávná Finbog and art student and du...
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Midwest Talks about From Lapland to Sápmi
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In just a few days I set off for Minnesota by train from Seattle, a two- day journey. In addition to visiting friends and admiring the f...
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