How did so many Indigenous Sámi artifacts end up in private collections and museums outside of Sápmi? And why were collectors only interested in certain types of objects? American non-fiction writer, journalist, editor, and translator Barbara Sjoholm discusses the history of ethnographic collections and the future of cultural repatriation in her latest book, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture.***This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors. Special thanks to Amy Swanson King.***Transcript available at https://scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-28-repatriation-air***Find Barbara Sjoholm's books published by the University of Minnesota Press and the University of Wisconsin Press:From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and returning Sámi Craft and Culture (2023); By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends (2019); Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer (2017); With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman Among the Sami, 1907-1908 (2013).***Theme music used with permission by Kristján Hrannar Pálsson:open.spotify.com/album/1dDmFxNvfYVnQwq7up7rxS***Crossing North is a production of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-podcast***Support Crossing North:Donate to the "Friends of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Fund"scandinavian.washington.edu/support-us