Sámi media

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Sámi media refers to media in one of the

nationalism
there in the late 19th century. Much of the Sámi media has met the same fate over the years and been felled by a lack of funding or by going bankrupt.

By far, the most important medium for the Sámi has been published material such as magazines and newspapers.[1] With the advent of radio, however, radio rose to share the prominence enjoyed by published material.[1]

Publications

The majority of publications over time have been written in Northern Sámi, although often these same publications will include small sections written in some of the smaller Sámi languages. For the smaller languages, continuing publication is usually only guaranteed as long as someone volunteers to take on the task or has the energy to continue publication.

Northern Sámi

Muitalægje or Muittalægje čuvgetusa haliduvvidi sami gaskast[2] (Tales for Sámi hungry for education/culture) was the first Sámi-language newspaper, founded by the Northern Sámi-speaking Norwegian Christian Andreasen.[3] It was published for only two years, from 1873 to 1875.[4] The purpose of this newspaper was to encourage the Sámi youth to look towards books for knowledge so they would learn more about the world outside the Sámi community.[5]

In 1898, the next publication

Sápmi
.

Sami Usteb was another religious monthly,[8] although a short-lived one, as only 57 issues were published by Norway's Lapp Mission [no]. The first issue dates back to 1899,[4] when two pastors, Jens Otterbech [no] and Gudbrand Tandberg,[9] decided to combine their efforts and write religious articles for the Sámi in their own mother tongue. Otterbech left northern Norway in 1902, after which Tandberg continued to write on his own for a year until its last issue in 1903.[4]

The Song of the Sámi People was published on April 1, 1906. This poem would go on to become the anthem of the Sámi in 1986 after it had been set to music. In addition to his having penned the national anthem of the Sámi, Saba was also the first Sámi politician to be elected to the Norwegian Parliament. In this, the paper more than succeeded in its objective of making the Sámi more politically aware.[10] Saba was also one of the two editors-in-chief at the paper, with Anders Larsen
being the other one. After this publication folded, more than twenty years went by without any other Northern Sámi publication besides Nuorttanaste being published.

This hiatus ended with the launch of the predominantly

Fenno-Ugric languages at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Because Sápmelaš was a magazine for all of the Sámi living in Finland, it also had articles in Inari Sámi[12] and a few in Skolt Sámi.[13]

Before 1979, Norway, Sweden and Finland all had their own orthography for Northern Sámi, but that year saw a common orthography created for all three countries. In order to efficiently disseminate the new orthography, a new newspaper, Sámi Áigi, was established that year in Karasjok. Sámi Áigi was, however, plagued by economic issues for the majority of its existence and it folded 10 years later when it finally went bankrupt. Four years later, in 1993, the newspaper was resurrected under the name Min Áigi.[14]

Established in 1993, Min Áigi and its rival

Kárášjohka and Guovdageaidnu, i.e., the same place that their editorial bureaus were originally in. The first issue of Ávvir was released on February 6, 2008, which is also Sámi National Day
.

Sámi magazine that was published for the first time on International Women's Day (March 8) in 1996.[16] The magazine is published six times a year by the Sámi women's forum Sami Nisson Forum, with articles dealing with the everyday life of the Sámi from a woman's perspective.[14] Although its articles are mainly in Norwegian and Northern Sámi, occasionally they are written in Southern Sámi, Lule Sámi and Swedish
, as well.

Inari Sámi

In 1987, a year after its founding,[17] the Inari Sámi Language Association started publishing a monthly bulletin called Anáraš.[11] It includes various types of literature, from poetry to children's stories and as such serves as a general publication for the Inari Sámi community.

Skolt Sámi

To date, the world's only

quarterly printed in the Skolt Sámi language was Sääʹmođđâz (The Skolt News). It was published four times a year, with its first issue being printed in Finland in 1978 by editor-in-chief Satu Mosnikoff and several reporters and assistants. Sääʹmođđâz was distributed to every Skolt household and the members of the Skolt Supporters' Association[18] as one way of disseminating the recently (1972) created orthography for the language. In addition, it was an important method of maintaining a sense of community in spite of the great distances between the three main Finnish Skolt communities of Sevettijärvi, Keväjärvi, and Nellim. The magazine had birth announcements, obituaries, wedding announcements, short stories written and illustrated by schoolchildren, news articles, official government and church announcements, and general interest stories. Each issue also had numerous photographs of the Skolt community. In spite of reaching the entire Skolt community residing in Finland, the last issue of Sääʹmođđâz was published in 1986 due to the difficulty of finding funding, a lack of reporters and the editor-in-chief being tired of publishing the magazine by herself.[19]

Southern Sámi

Like so many of the early Sámi publications, the

quarterly called Daerpies Dierie. This publication was founded in 1997 by its current editor-in-chief Bierna Bientie.[14] Articles are published in Swedish, Norwegian or Southern Sámi
. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from Sámi church life to more general news about the Sámi community.

Additionally, the Snåsa, Norway, newspaper Snåsningen carries a few articles in Southern Sámi each month.[20]


Swedish

In 1904, the first and short-lived Swedish-language magazine, Lapparnes Egen Tidning (The Lapps' Own Newspaper), pertaining to the Sámi was established. It was published by the Central Lappish Union. By 1905, it folded after publishing a mere four issues. It did, however, set the scene for the arrival of its successor, Samefolkets Egen Tidning[21] 13 years later.

indigenous people around the world. While it is mainly published in Swedish, it also has articles in Norwegian and the Sámi languages spoken in Sweden, i.e., Northern Sámi, Lule Sámi and Southern Sámi. The magazine is owned by two major Sámi organizations: Samernas Riksförbund and Same Ätnam.[23]

Norwegian

Waren Sardne was a newspaper published in Norwegian for the Southern Sámi community. Founded in 1910 by Daniel Mortenson, who would serve as its editor-in-chief, it was published weekly on Saturday from its establishment until halfway through 1913, when double issues started being published. The thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth joint and final issue was published on December 27, 1913. Resurrected in July 1922, Mortenson once again took the reins and started publishing the newspaper again, this time as a monthly. Mortenson served as editor-in-chief until his death in 1924,[24] at which point in time his son Lars Danielsen succeeded him in this post.[25] From 1923 to 1924, the newspaper started to be published more often at twice a month. From 1925 on, Waren Sardne was published somewhat erratically, with issues not coming out or double issues appearing. By 1927, the newspaper had folded for the last time.

Sámi newspaper to be published. Although the original idea of the newspaper was that its articles should be written in both Sámi
and Norwegian, it uses Norwegian almost exclusively in its articles nowadays.

Academic journals

As Sámi languages received official status across Sápmi, a new emphasis on recognizing and furthering Sámi languages as languages for science, teaching, and administration.[26] As academic institutions like the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu, Norway, have placed an emphasis on the use of Northern Sámi language in the classroom, the need for peer-reviewed outlets for Sámi-language scholarship have arisen.[27][28] Several academic journals regularly publish articles in Sámi languages, although most also accept articles in English, Norwegian, and other languages.

Television

  1. Ođđasat
  2. Unna Junná

Radio

Across Sápmi, Sámi languages are carried by a range of radio broadcasters on traditional FM airwaves, as well as via digital radio and online streaming. The public-service broadcasters of Norway, Sweden, and Finland produce individually and in collaboration Sámi-language channels (primarily broadcasting in the Northern Sámi language), and several local broadcasters provide Sámi-language content too. Radio in particular has played an important role in building a sense of Sámi community.[29][30]

Online Journalism

See also

References

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