Dan Lundberg & Gunnar Ternhag: Foreword; Beverly Diamond: The Music of Modern Idigenety. From identity to alliance studies; Ola Graff: The Relation between Sami Yoik Songs and Nature; Pirkko Moisala: From Traditional Yoik (joiku) Transmission towards Formal Education; Erkki Pekkilä: When Folk and Elite Cultures meet. Armas Launis's Sami opera Aslak Hetta; Krister Stoor: As Long as the World Shall Stand. Analyzing Jonas Eriksson Steggo's yoik to the Pite River; Gunnar Ternhag: Karl Tirén - a Collector of Yoiks; Susanne Ziegler: Wax Cylinder Recordings of Sami Music in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv;