Árran is the Lule Sámi center in the village of Drag in

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. The center was established in 1994 to foster and promote the Lule Sámi language and

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. It does this by arranging on-site and video conference 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 cours
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and soon it will be publishing a Norwegian–Lule Sámi dictionary. Since 1999, Árran has published the popular scientific journal Bårjås, which is published in Lule Sámi and Norwegian/ Swedish. The latter articles have summaries of the topic in Lule Sámi. Director since 2011 is Lars Magne Andreassen. In 2017, the museum at Árran received a large archive by Mikal Urheim.

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