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 said that Swedes could enter Finland. After the pasture became exhausted, which happened very quickly, together with dissatisfaction among other local Sami groups, and the effect of contemporary racial ideas, they were deported further south to Norrland.