Category Archives: News

On 25-30 September 2011, representatives of indigenous peoples’ local assessments carried out in China, Ecuador, Finland, India, North America, Panama, Peru and Thailand under the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA) initiative met in the community of Sevettijärvi, located … Continue reading →

In order to stimulate discussions and reflections on the community developments in the Snowchange Arctic network, we are launching a new web-based series – Snowchange Discussion Papers – today. The first in these occasional series is titled “Does Siida Life … Continue reading →

Snowchange has been conducting community-based workshops in Sevettijärvi, Finland and Lovozero, Murmansk, Russia over the summer regarding the Eastern Saami Atlas dissemination. Next workshop is scheduled for September in Lovozero. Plans have been made to translate the atlas into Finnish, … Continue reading →

In March – April 2011 further dissemination of the Eastern Saami Atlas took place in Finland. Community visits to Norya, Udmurtia, Russia were carried out in April 2011 in the framework of traditions and school cooperation. In May 2011 community … Continue reading →

Our webpages have gone through a complete update, and finally we are ready launch the renewed site! At the moment, you’ll find on the pages the latest and past news from Snowchange, a detailed list of our publications, and links … Continue reading →

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 →