 Modern Joiks 
This article examines transformations of the Sami yoik in the age of globalisation and what these changes mean for young Samis today. By incorporating some of the novelties brought about by globalisation, while continuing to resist cultural assimilation and territorial dispossession, the Sámi perpetuate their ancestral practices. Research on contemporary Sámi oral literature points to a link between the acceleration of Sámi social struggles and the emergence of new forms of yoik. With the identity shift in the late 1960s in Sápmi, the yoik began to emerge from its colonial ban to play a significant role in these struggles for recognition. Today, the yoik refers to Indigenous and minority people in Europe with their oral traditions, languages, customary practices, and relationship to their ancestral territory. The yoik has become both a real marker of cultural particularity and a way of preserving and transmitting the heritage of the Indigenous people.