Category Archives: News

Over the past two months a lot of work has been done on the oral histories of the communities in North Karelia, Finland. On 23rd November 2012 Snowchange Co-op releases the publication of oral histories collected from Jorma Sonninen, a … Continue reading →

Snowchange visits were made to the Skolt Saami areas in Sevettijärvi, Finland and to Neiden, Norway. Gleb Raygorodetsky from the United Nations University took part in the visit. Then another community round to discuss co-management regime and local Komi and … Continue reading →

Summer is over and Snowchange Co-op work proceeds with full speed. Over the summer documentation of Skolt Saami observations of salmon changes were carried out along the Neiden river on the Finnish side. Simultaneously over 55 people were interviewed along … Continue reading →

Theresa and Travis Neel from the Kwakwakwala First Nations will make a 10 day visit to the various Snowchange member communities in Southern Finland. Accompanying them for some time will be a Maori delegate Waikiti Dalton from Aoteoroa, New Zealand. … Continue reading →

Snowchange Cooperative will be active in the summer 2012 in various works. In early June our coordinator Vladimir Vasiliev from Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia will be visiting the Finnish member communities. Later in June a delegation from the Kwakwakwala First Nations from … Continue reading →

The Snowchange Cooperative publishes Metsäveri – a book of oral histories of the late Sámi hunter Aslak Ola Aikio from Utsjoki, Sápmi (Lapland). Metsäveri documents the oral histories of late Aslak Ola Aikio (1931-2004), a Sámi hunter from Utsjoki, Finland. … Continue reading →

We are busy participating in a range of meetings in Australia, the UK, Canada and Saami areas. More throughout update will follow in early May. The book devoted to the oral histories and knowledge of the late Saami hunter Aslak … Continue reading →

Snowchange Co-op joins a range of international partners in commenting the situation of the Kayapo and other Indigenous Nations being threatened by the Brazilian Belo Monte Dam. Please read the statement here.

Snowchange participated successfully in the recent UNU / IPCC Workshop in Cairns, Australia on Indigenous peoples and climate mitigation. You can see some of the results in a National Geographic article available here. See also Dr. Tero Mustonen exploring the … Continue reading →

Best of 2012 from Snowchange Cooperative! The year has started off actively in a number of forums. We are busy finishing “Metsäveri” – the life histories and oral stories of Aslak Ola Aikio (1931-2004), one of the last great hunters … Continue reading →