Máriddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and facing a cancer diagnosis. She’s determined to keep the truth about her illness from her dear husband Biera, while also finding someone who can take care of him once she’s gone.
Meet Kaj: a new transplant to the village, recently engaged to Mimmi, and mourning the death of his mother. One day, when Kaj unexpectedly finds a box of Sámi-the indigenous people of Scandinavia-handicrafts belonging to his mother, he unlocks something he never anticipated, something that will change his life for years to come.
A debut that is at turns tender, funny and devastating, The Secret of Snow introduces a cast of loveable, quirky characters perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Jonas Jonasson. Translated by Alice Menzies.
ISBN: 9781398717770. Orion Publishing Co, 2026. 336 sider. Innbundet. 279.- (kan kjøpes gjennom Biblioteksentralen og Adlibris blant andre)
Bildeordbok på sørsamisk, engelsk og det nordamerikanske urfolksspråket niitsitapi.
Det er også ei fargeleggingsbok, og indirekte er det også et glimt inn i en rik urfolkskultur på et annet kontinent.
Jason Eaglespeaker tilhører Blackfoot eller Niitsitapi som de selv kaller seg. De bor både i USA og Canada.
Dette er den første av seks bøker Trøndelag fylkesbibliotek har kjøpt rettighetene til fra forfatteren/forleggeren Jason Eaglespeaker og hans «Eaglespeaker publishing».
Anita Dunfjeld Aagård og sønnen Laara har skapt den sørsamiske teksten. For aldersgruppen 3-12 år. Gitt ut i samarbeid med Trøndelag fylkesbibliotek.
Dán girjji ulbmil lea čilget vuoiŋŋalaš gaskavuođa maid sápmelaččat leat dovdan eatnamiidda ja čáziide áiggiid čađa, ja mii duođaštuvvá muitalusaid, jáhkuid, báikenamaid ja dadjanvugiid bokte.
Denne boka er ment som en introduksjon til den åndelige dimensjonen ved samenes tilknytning til land og vann, sett fra samisk synsvinkel og basert på samisk tradisjonell kunnskap, slik den har vært formidlet gjennom myter, tro, fortellinger, forestillinger, stedsnavn og språklige uttrykk.
This booklet is meant as an introduction to the spiritual dimension of the Sámi relation with land and water as seen from a Sámi perspective and based primarily on Sámi traditional knowledge, as transmitted from generation to generation through myths, beliefs, narratives, place names, and linguistic expressions.
Tekst på nordsamisk, norsk bokmål og engelsk. Harald Gaski er professor i samisk litteratur ved Sámi allaskuvla.
Vilda takes life as it comes, talking for hours about everything and nothing with her best friend, Alma. It’s never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother’s side of the family is Sámi and her father’s is Swedish, but as summer vacation starts, she wants to know more about her indigenous roots-and she’s looking forward to her beloved grandfather, Áddjá, teaching her the Sámi language.
Then Áddjá has a fatal heart attack and, overnight, Vilda loses not only a person she loves most in the world, but a crucial link to her history and identity.
It’s disorienting in ways deep and superficial: she doesn’t know what to wear, what to say, or how Alma and her friends should react. And all this comes while her body is changing, and she’s swamped by confusing thoughts and feelings about an older boy she meets at her grandfather’s funeral.
Butterfly Heart is a tender, heartwarming story about love, grief, and the right to define who you are.
Den er den andre boken i Máret Ánne Saras serie om søsknene Sanne og Lemme som på et uforklarlig vis finner seg hensatt til en annen virkelighet og de underjordiskes verden. Der forsøker de å fatte hvordan og hvorfor de er der i reinsdyrs skikkelse.
Samtidig som de forsøker å finne veien hjem, og til menneskeverdenen, prøver de også å begripe hvordan alt det merkelige henger sammen.
Fantasy for aldersgruppen 11-16 år. Oversatt til engelsk av Laura A. Janda.
Lars Stærk (1902-1975) from Jurangohppi/Ropelv outside Kirkenes collected and wrote down Sámi tales he heard as a young man. The collection is unique and provides a good insight into life as it was long ago in the multicultural border area between Norway, Russia and Finland. The coastal Sámi and Skolt Sámi way of life and culture shape the stories, which are filled with both humour and love, as well as assaults and murders.
The tales are illustrated by two well-known artists from Kirkenes. Ellisif Wessel (1866-1949) was both a doctor`s wife and a socialist rebel, but also a highly regarded photographer. The Sami artist John Andreas Savio (1902-1938) became most famous for his woodcuts, which particularly highlight Sámi motifs. Many of these images fit well as illustrations for Lars Stærk`s tales and have therefore been given ample space to complement the stories in the book.
Katri Somby går gjennom historien til samebevegelsen og deres kamp. Historien viser også hvor viktig denne kampen var for globale urfolksrettigheter. Engelsk tekst, med sammendrag på engelsk, nordsamisk og norsk.
Avhandlingen tar for seg samebevegelsens strategier fra 1968 til 1990, med fokus på samenes politiske, aktivistiske og interseksjonelle bevegelser i Norden. I 1968 ble samene i de nordiske land betegnet som en minoritet.
Men som et resultat av internasjonalt arbeid og samfunnsutviklingen avsluttes forskningsperioden med Norges ratifisering av ILO-konvensjon nr. 169 i 1990. Et sentralt tema i denne studien er på hvilken måte Nordisk sameråds (NSC) rolle var i utviklingen av samenes rettigheter, både regionalt og internasjonalt. NSC søkte politisk godkjenning i nasjonale og internasjonale plattformer som FN og deltok i Verdensrådet for urfolk (WCIP), som de var med på å danne. Hva var strategiene, og hva var resultatene?
Studien peker på viktige begivenheter som Alta-kampen (1979-1981), der samiske aktivister brukte urfolksrettigheter som argument for å utfordre norsk samepolitikk og gjennom dette påvirket en felles nordisk samepolitikk. Denne kampen samlet samenes bevegelse og skapte større internasjonal oppmerksomhet rundt samiske spørsmål.
This thesis examines the strategies of the Sámi movement from 1968 to 1990, focusing on the Sámi’s political, activist, and intersectional movements in the Nordic region. In 1968, the Sámi were considered a minority in most Nordic countries. However, as a result of international efforts and societal developments, the research period concludes with Norway’s ratification of ILO Convention No. 169 in 1990. A central theme of this study is the role of the Nordic Sámi Council (NSC) in the development of Sámi rights, both regionally and internationally. The NSC sought political recognition through national and international platforms such as the UN and participated in the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), which they helped to establish. What were the strategies, and what were the results?
The thesis highlights significant events such as the Alta struggle (1979-1981), where Sámi activists used Indigenous rights as an argument to challenge Norwegian Sámi policy, which also influenced a shared Nordic Sámi policy. This struggle unified the Sámi movement and generated greater international attention to their cause. The Sámi women’s movement, established in the mid-1980s, faced intersectional challenges in relation to both the Sámi movement and the Nordic women’s movement. The Sámi’s participation in the global Indigenous movement through organisations like WCIP helped them gain international political legitimacy. However, internal tensions within WCIP eventually led the NSC to seek independence from the organisation by the late 1980s and this process in examined thoroughly.
The thesis also discusses symbolic actions taken by the Sámi, such as the formal creation of a flag and the establishment of national symbols. Ultimately, the Sámi contributed significantly to the global Indigenous movement, particularly by the work with ILO Convention No. 169, which set international standards for Indigenous rights.
Romanen skildrer hvordan samiske barn ble skilt fra sine familier. De ble tvunget til å gå på nomadeskoler hvor det var forbudt å snakke samisk og hvor de fikk lære at dere egen kultur var noe å skjemmes over.
Fortellingen er basert på virkelige hendelser med utgangspunkt i et av den svenske statens største svik mot samene. Nomadeskolen har ødelagt generasjoner og resultert i tap av språk, skam og brutte familiebånd.
Oversatt til engelsk av Rachel Willson-Boyles.
In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sámi reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a “nomad school” where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced.
Thirty years later, the five children have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sámi identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father but harbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from the school. Then there’s Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can’t help questioning if it’s right to take a child from her homeland.
Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novel asks: If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you?
Based on the author’s family story, Punished is a searing novel about loss, memory, cultural erasure, and community that vibrates with righteous rage over one nation’s greatest betrayals of its native people.
ISBN: 9781668045510. Simon & Schuster, 2025. 448 sider. Heftet. 231.- (kan kjøpes gjennom Adlibris)
Med utgangspunkt i internasjonale, tverrfaglige perspektiver fra over 15 land, tilbyr denne antologien nye perspektiver på språklig og kulturelt mangfold i flerspråklige bildebøker, og undersøker deres potensial til å støtte flerspråklig læring og mottakelse i ulike pedagogiske sammenhenger.
Den inneholder blant andre artikkelen Frozen and Timeless: Nature, Identity, and Intercultural Encounters in the Dual Language Northern Sámi-Norwegian Picturebook Nammalávlla/Navnesangen av Åse Marie Ommundsen. Artikkelen handler om samisk barnelitteratur. Hun tar spesielt for seg boken Nammalávlla/Navnesangen, skrevet av Beate Heide.
Redaktører er Esa Christine Hartmann og Áine McGillicuddy.
This edited volume offers fresh perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual picturebooks, examining their potential to support multilingual learning in different educational contexts. Drawing on international, transdisciplinary perspectives from over fifteen countries, the book provides a comprehensive view of this unique literary genre.
The collection showcases a wide range of languages featured in multilingual picturebooks, including Chinese, Farsi, Georgian, Irish, Korean, Malagasy, Mexican Indigenous languages, Mirandese, Northern Sámi, Portuguese, Spanish, Te Reo Māori, Ukrainian, and Welsh. Various chapters examine how multilingual picturebooks foster language and literacy development for emergent bilinguals in multilingual and multicultural environments, highlighting benefits such as linguistic and semiotic code-switching, as well as their ability to stimulate intercultural awareness in readers. The book also considers the creation, translation, and complex publishing processes of multilingual picturebooks, while exploring modern technologies such as eye tracking to analyse the reading processes of these books.
Reflecting current insights and innovations in picturebook research, this volume will appeal to scholars, academics, and researchers in language and literacy education, multilingual education, and early childhood education. Those involved in children’s literature studies, multimodality, and bilingualism more broadly will also find this collection valuable.
Antologi med artikler på engelsk utgitt av Lappi universitet i Finland.
Den tar for seg digitalisering av urfolks kulturarv, og hvordan dette kan gjøres på etisk og riktig måte.
Antologien søker å øke bevisstheten, grundig diskutere digitalisering av kulturarv i et tverrfaglig perspektiv, og på denne måten formidle forskningsfunn som utdyper temaet å skape tillit til digitalisering av urfolks kulturarv.,
Redaktører er Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Pigga Keskitalo, Rosa Ballardini og melanie Sarantou.
The digitising of Indigenous cultural heritage (CH) is not often debated in international research. A topical gap in research-based knowledge on the legal and ethical practices of various fields of Indigenous CH exists, for example, regarding digitisation, education, law, social processes, and creative practices.
This anthology results from a project aimed at juxtaposing southern and northern perspectives on sustainable practices for digitising indigenous CH. The book seeks to raise awareness, thoroughly discuss the digitisation of CH from a multidisciplinary perspective, and, in this way, disseminate research findings that elaborate on the topic of creating trust in digitising Indigenous CH.
The objective is to provide a holistic understanding of key challenges and propose potential novel, workable, substantive, and methodological solutions via which to navigate the legal and cultural tensions within the processes of digitising Indigenous CH in ethical ways.
