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a northern state of mind

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Sami National Day

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Today, February 6, is Sami National Day, celebrated mostly in northern Norway and Sweden, but important to the Sami wherever they live. I...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Sami Shorts at the Nordic Lights Film Festival

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Marja Bål Nango Last weekend in Seattle the Nordic Lights Film Festival showed a great array of films from the Nordic countries. My fr...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Emilie Demant Hatt reading and slideshow in Portland January 10, 2014

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        The Friday Night Lecture Series WHEN:  Friday, January 10, 2014, 7:30pm WHERE:   P...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Snow Maiden

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I often listen these days to the Classical Morning program that airs on Swedish Radio from Monday through Friday, but that's also ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Bodil/ Sven

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Last week, hurricane-force winds and storm surges knocked around the countries of Northwestern Europe, including Denmark and Southern Sweden...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Healing with Frogs

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 At the SASS conference last May in San Francisco Tom DuBois, a folklorist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, presented an...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Sami rapper Nils Rune Utsi

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One of the things I find most interesting about doing public readings on anything to do with Scandinavia and the Sami (most recently during ...
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Barbara Sjoholm
I've traveled in and written about the Nordic countries and Sápmi for many years, and have published numerous books about the North, including translations, travel narratives, and cultural history. Most recently I translated By the Fire, a collection of Sámi folktales, many told by women, collected and illustrated by the Danish ethnographer and artist, Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958). The University of Minnesota Press will publish a new book in February, 2023, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture, with stories of Sámi objects and their makers over the centuries. www.barbarasjoholm.com has more about all my books. I also write mysteries under the name Barbara Wilson. See www.barbarawilsonmysteries for more about them.
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