Author Archives: k.m.

A ground-breaking 334-page publication “Eastern Sámi Altas” that tells the story of this little-known indigenous group will be released on 3rd February 2011 in Inari SIIDA SAAMI MUSEUM at 15.00. Connected with this release there will be community workshops 2nd … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 21 December 2010 A well-respected Maori Leader Wiremu Karuwha Tawhai Passes On. He was one of the main speakers of the Snowchange 2008 in Aoteoroa. Read on below. POROPOROAKI Tariana Turia and Dr Pita Sharples Maori Party co-leaders 5 … Continue reading →

Drowning Reindeer, Drowning Homes has been released 13th December to large media and civil society discussions in Sámi areas and in Finland. Eastern Sámi Atlas is in the layout and heads for printers early January. Series of workshops will be … Continue reading →

Snowchange releases a new scholarly publication on the Sámi titled “Drowning Reindeer, Drowning Homes– Indigenous Sámi and Hydroelectricity Development in Sompio, Finland” on 13th December, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. The event in Helsinki will be followed by a media campaign … Continue reading →

Unusually warm November starts the work here in Snowchange HQ. Some of the results from the Siberian community work have been published  in the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment – 2010. Highlights available here. The visits to British Columbia in October were … Continue reading →

Snowchange is 10 years old. Summer recess is over and Snowchange Co-op activities are updated with more rigour again. In June, Georges and Miguel Sioui from the Huron Nation, Canada visited and successful cooperation talks were held in Äimälä and … Continue reading →

The great Indigenous leader from the Even Nation in Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia, Russia has passed on in early July 2010. The Indigenous Peoples Institute where he worked has prepared the following statement in his memory: Robbek, Vasily Afanasievich was … Continue reading →

26th to 28th August, 2010 celebrations are held across the country and events organised in Selkie Village as the Snowchange Cooperative (and previous incarnations) is 10 years old today. The Indigenous Climate Change Project that begun in Tampere, Finland, Vancouver, … Continue reading →

Work on the Nomadic Schools and School Cooperation with Alaska. Tentatively Snowchange delegates will make a presentation on nomadic schools at the 12th ISE Conference in Tofino, BC, Canada in mid May. Visits to partner First Nations communities will be … Continue reading →

NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SIBERIA At the Gates of the Sun documents the life of Nizni-Kolyma and Neriungri uluses – two regions of Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia, Russian Federation as seen by the visiting Finnish members of … Continue reading →