With a focus on Sápmi - the transcultural and transnational homeland of the Sámi people - this book presents case studies and theoretical frameworks which explore the ways in which memory institutions such as museums, archives, and festivals participate in and guide processes of appropriation, decolonization, and memory-making.

Introduction 1. Máhttsat ja Mujttalit: Árran's Negotiations in the Bååstede Project 2. Old Sea Sámi Artefacts and New Museum Practices 3. From DigiJoik to Luohtevuorká: Appropriation and Appreciation in the Process of Making New Homes for Luöit 4. Drum Time: Tracing the Multifaceted Significances and Stories of a Sámi Drum 5. The Hagenbeck Sámi Collection at Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin 6. The Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum: A Case Study in Decolonization 7. Imagining the "Otherwises" of Indigenous Sámi Art: (De)coloniality in Sámi Dáiddamuseax and "The Sámi Pavilion" 8. Upon Return, a NewArctic: A Collaborative Museum Experiment 9. Gállogieddi Caput Sápmi 10. The Sacred Mountain: The Heritage-Making of Sálašoaivi/Tromsdalstinden Afterword: Memory Institutions and the Cultural Politics of Appreciation

Trude Fonneland is a professor of cultural studies at UiT The Arctic University Museum of Norway. Her research interests include Sámi cultural heritage, museology, and contemporary shamanism. She is co-author of Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics (2020) and Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates (2023).

Rossella Ragazzi is an associate professor of museum and media anthropology at UiT The Arctic University Museum of Norway. Her current research interests explore critial theories of heritage within Sámi museums. She is the author of Walking on Uneven Paths: The Transcultural Experience of Children entering Europe in the Years 2000 (2009) and has co-edited two volumes of Nordic Museologi, focusing on Sámi Museums heritage and museums.