Báiki
Encyclopedia
Báiki: The International Sámi Journal ("Báiki" means place in Sami
Sami languages
Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami is frequently and erroneously believed to be a single language. Several names are used for the Sami...

) is a biannual English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

-language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

 publication that covers Sami
Sami people
The Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe’s northernmost...

 culture, history, and current affairs. The coverage also includes the community affairs of the Sami in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

, estimated at some 30,000 people.

The magazine was first published in 1991. The founding editor of the journal is Faith Fjeld, co-editor is Nathan Muus. It maintains an editorial office in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

 and an archive in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

.

Báiki is a non-profit project of the Center for Environmental Economic Development, supported by grants from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, subscriptions, contributions and advertisements.

See also

  • Árran
    Árran (Sami publication)
    Árran is an English language quarterly of Sami culture and news. The editor of Árran is Arden Johnson and was founded by the late Mel Olsen in 1995. Published by the Sami Siida of North America, the magazine is by and for Sami North Americans and friends. Árran headquarters are in Minneapolis,...

     the North American Sami Newsletter.
  • Sami Siida of North America
    Sami Siida of North America
    The Sami Siida of North America is a loosely organized group of regional communities, primarily in Canada and the United States, who share the Sami culture and heritage from northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. This area, traditionally known as Sápmi or Samiland to...

    a network for Sami in North America.
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