Árran is the Lule Sámi Center in the village of Drag

Drag, Norway

Drag is a village in the municipality of Tysfjord in Norway with approximately 950 inhabitants. It is located slightly less than 200 kilometres north of Bodø and 120 kilometres south of Narvik. Drag is connected to Kjøpsvik by ferry.-Lule Samis:The Árran Lule Sami Center is located in Drag....

 in Tysfjord

Tysfjord

Tysfjord or Divtasvuodna is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Ofoten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kjøpsvik...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The purpose of the center is to foster and promote the Lule Sámi language and culture, which it does by arranging on-site and videoconference courses in Lule Sámi, publishing books and doing research. The center has a museum, a souvenir shop and a Lule Sámi day-care center on its premises. One of the major projects that it was involved with was the Lule Sámi on-line course Sámasta and soon it will be publishing a Norwegian-Lule Sámi dictionary.

Since 1999, Árran has published the popular scientific journal Bårjås

Bårjås

Bårjås is a popular scientific journal that has been published once a year in Lule Sámi and Norwegian by the Árran Lule Sami Center and museum in the village of Drag in Tysfjord, Norway since 1999....

, which is published in Lule Sámi and Norwegian/Swedish. The latter articles have summaries of the topic in Lule Sámi.

External links

• Árran