By Timo Koivurova and Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek The ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in Fairbanks, Alaska, in May 2017 was the first in the history of the institution where all eight Arctic states were represented by their ministers of foreign affairs—the highest ranked meeting ever dedicated exclusively to matters of circumpolar cooperation. It speaks to

This article was previously published by Barents Observer. By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines A new crop of students is about to graduate from the Sámi Education Institute’s Inari Sámi language class. Inari Sámi is one of Finland’s most threatened languages, with just a few hundred native speakers remaining. But these language classes promise to turn students into fluent Sámi language speakers in just eight