Two new podcast interviews about From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture

 

 

I had a great time at the KPTZ radio station at Fort Worden in Port Townsend WA, talking with Cris Wilson, the host of Booklovers' Cafe. The interview aired June 18 and is available in their archive for streaming.

I was also interviewed recently for an episode of the podcast Crossing North, produced by Colin Gioia Connors for the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. In the episode ("Repatriation is in the Air"), Amy Swanson King, a graduate student at the UW and member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi, and I talk about From Lapland to Sápmi, published a little more than a year ago by the University of Minnesota Press.

Crossing North has all kinds of fascinating interviews with scholars, artists, and community members about Nordic and Baltic topics, including the "Nordic Languages of Middle Earth" and "Werewolves on Campus." Check it out!

 

The Palace of the Snow Queen, reprint edition coming soon

 

 

I'm happy to announce the upcoming re-issue of my travel memoir, The Palace of the Snow Queen, first published in 2007 by Counterpoint Press. The University of Minnesota Press will be publishing the original edition in paper and e-book format with a new cover and a new afterword in October, 2023. Although it's been in stock and available for most of these years, it's wonderful to think it will have a new life soon. In the afterword I've also been able to talk about some of the changes I've seen and experienced in the Nordic countries since I spent my first winters in Lapland and Sápmi  twenty years ago. Many of them have to do with climate change and mining in the area of Kiruna, Sweden. Others have to do with continued Sámi resolve to preserve traditional territories free from over-large windfarms, mines, dumping of tailings into fjords and lakes, and damaging logging.

Pre-orders on print books are available now at a discount of 40% through UMP's Native American and Indigenous Studies Collection in connection with the recent meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, (Tkaronto/Toronto, May 11-13). 

All books, including many other important Indigenous titles from UMP and my own From Lapland to Sápmi, are 40% off using code MNNAISA23 through July 1, 2023.