The seminar will be hosted by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland. The program for the seminar is as follows:

June 8, Rights and culture

9:00-9:30 Opening

Chair: Prof. Timo Koivurova, PYVI, Arctic Centre

Governor Hannele Pokka, County of Lapland
President Pekka Aikio, Sami Parliament, Sápmi, Finland

9:30-11:00
Judge Steven L. Point, Chief Commissioner, British Columbian Treaty
Process:
The History of Aboriginal rights in Canada, and Treaty Making in British

Columbia

Coffee

11:00-12:30
President Pekka Aikio, Sami Parliament
Sami rights in Finland

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30
Ass. Prof. Robert Wheelersburg, Elisabethtown college, USA
Indigenous resource use rights in Sweden

14:30-15:30
LL. Lic. Juha Joona, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Historical land rights in Finnish Lapland

15:30-16:00
Coffee

16:00-17:00
Ph.D.-candidate Nils-Johan Päiviö, Nordic Sami Institute
The Development of Sami Rights in Sweden

17:00-18:00
Discussion


Evening program

June 9, Tourism, identity and knowledge
Chair: Dr. Keith Battarbee, Department of English, NACS, University of
Oulu

9:00-10:00
Dr. Michael Ireland, College of St. Mark & St John, Plymouth
In the conscience black and white? Experiencing cultural identity and
ties of kinship through the photographic image in a Cornish fishing
village.

10:00-11:00
Prof. Seija Tuulentie, METLA,
Local community development and tourism in Finnish Lapland

11:00-12:00
Dr. Anni-Siiri Länsman, University of Oulu
Guest-relations between tourists and Sami people in Finnish Sápmi

12:00-12:30
Discussion

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Chair: MII-Sami Association, Rovaniemi

13:30-14:30
Dr. Gwen Point, University College of Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British

Columbia
Stó:lo Spirituality, Language & Culture in Education Today

14:30-15:00
Dr. Elina Helander-Renvall
Sami and Indigenous Research at the University of Lapland

15:00-15:30
Coffee

15:30-16:00
Ph.D.-canditate Tero Mustonen, Snowchange, University of Joensuu
Perspectives on Re-traditionalisation of Traditional Knowledge in
Northern Communities: Experience from Siberia, North Karelia and Russian

Karelia

Chair: Tanja Joona , Arktis, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

16:00-18:00 Project presentations, research ideas, discussion:
Dr. Michael Ireland, Sustainable tourism in the Altai Region of Western
Siberia
Pro-gradu student Outi Rantala, Culture and tourism,University of
Lapland
Ph.D.-candidate Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Womens´ studies, University of

Lapland
Ph.D.-candidate Leena Heinämäki, PYVI, Arctic Centre, University of
Lapland
Pro-gradu student Sanna Paala. University of Lapland
Pro-gradu student Piia Nuorgam, University of Lapland
Ph.D.-candidate Mika Flöjt, PYVI, University of Lapland
Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossman, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

More information:
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland