Photo: 40 years of Arctic indigenous cooperation

From left, Rune Fjellheim, executive director of the Saami Parliament of Norway poses with Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada’s Kirt Ejesiak and Saami Parliament president Aili Keskitalo at the Arctic Peoples’ Conference in Copenhagen Nov. 22. The gathering celebrated 40 years of Arctic indigenous cooperation, as Inuit and Saami met in the same venue for the first time in 1973. Participants at the two-day event heard presentations on Arctic cooperation, national Arctic policies as well as on issues like language, customary law and indigenous rights. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ICC)