Dislocation of Sami people

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The Disclocation of Sami people refers to the ordered movement of 300-400 Sami peoples from Jukkasjärvi and Karesuando in the 1930s. This was outermost a result of political nature between Norway and Russia, where Norway denied diplomatic relationship with Russia. Russia answered by cutting off all relationships with Norway, causing regions in Torne Valley (on the Finnish side) to be excluded from their traditional pasture lands. About 400 individuals from Kautokeino area then started to change national character to Swedes, simply to gain access to previous pasture regions in Finland, since Russians accepted Swedes to enter Finland. After the pasture became exhaused soon after, together with dissatisfaction among other local Sami groups, and in addition to contemporary racial ideas, this ultimately led to a deportation of families more southern down in Norrland.