Recent North American Sami
Community Events
May 5
-6, 2007 Norway Day Festival
April
21 - 22, 2007 Scandinavian
Festival
March
29 - April 1, 2007 World
of Nations Celebration
Spring
2007 Arctic Voices Global
Warming Tour
February
14, 2007 Indigenous Peoples'
International Polar Year Opening Ceremonies
July 26-30, 2006 FinnFest
2006, Astoria, Oregon and Nacelle,
Washington
July 4, 2006 Alfred
Nilima Family Reunion, Kotzebue,
Alaska
March 5-11, 2006 Arctic
Winter Games 2006, Kenai Borough,
Alaska
February 17-18, 2006
"The Nordic Spirit Symposium
and Sami Duodji Exhibit", California Lutheran University,
Thousand Oaks, California
January 14 -
May 7, 2006 "In the Shadow
of the Midnight Sun" Sami and Inuit Art 2000-2005, Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
October
7, 2005 to November 11, 2005 "The
Sami: Reindeer People of Alaska", Nordic Heritage Museum,
Seattle, Washington
October
8, 2005 Sámi Family Reunion,
Trollhaugen Lodge, Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington
August
10 - 14, 2005 Saami Reunion Siidastallen Finn Grand Fest,
Marquette, Michigan
August
5 - 7, 2005 Three Grandmothers Saami Womens' Spiritual
Gathering, Hibbing, Minnesota
February
8, 2005 to September 16, 2005,
The Alaska Exhibit, Nome, Alaska
April
9-10, 2005 The 2005 Scandinavian Festival, Thousand Oaks,
California
December 4, 2004
The Annual Saami Day, Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 7-30, 2004 A
Scandinavian Cultural Exhibit featuring the Sami and art of
Elle-Hánsa.
September 29, 2004 to January 29,
2005 The Alaska Exhibit, Kodiak,
Alaska
July 2003 Scandinavian
Showcase Festival, Edmonton, Canada
June 2003 Bay
Area Indian Agency Resources (BAIAR) meeting, Saami Baiki Foundation,
Oakland
Circumpolar Worlds: Indigenous People on Two Continents symposium,
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
Reindeer Owners and Breeders Association annual meeting, Pendelton,
Oregon
May 2003 Norway
Days festival, Crissy Field, San Francisco, California
Fundraiser Feast for the exhibit “The
Sami- Reindeer People of Alaska”, Sons of Norway Island
Viking lodge, Kodiak, Alaska
April 2003 Scandinavian
Festival to be held at 1000, Thousand Oaks, California
March 2003 Kawerak
Alaska Native Reindeer Herders Association annual meeting. Nome,
Alaska
February 2003 The
Lost Forest filming on location, Lake Tahoe area, California
December 2002 Christmas
Fair SVEA Swedish woman’s organization, Hollywood Paladium,
Los Angeles
Saami Baiki Solstice potluck gathering, Oakland, California
October 2002 Scandifest,
Turlock, California
September 2002 Meetings
are held (September and October) in Anchorage and Bethel Alaska
regarding the planned traveling exhibit “The Sami- Reindeer
People of Alaska” to begin next year. Family members of
the Alaska Sami community as well as other interested people
including museum staff and Eskimo family members whose families
were part of the original Reindeer Project met at the Native
Heritage Center, Anchorage, The Anchorage Museum, and Yupik
Museum in Bethel Alaska. Everyone is really excited about this
project! The Alaska Humanities Forum and the Seventh Generation
Fund have given the project planning grants to get going.
August 2002 Finnfest
The largest annual Finnish-American cultural festival in North
America, held in a different location each year. University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis
May 2002
Norway Days, San Mateo Expo Center, San Mateo, California
