• The Finnmark Act (Norwegian: Finnmarksloven) of 2005 transferred about 96% (about 46,000 km2) of the area in the Finnmark county in Norway to the inhabitants...
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    Finnmark Act has a logo that according to the entity's website "gets it colours from the Sámi and the Norwegian flag, as a symbol that the Finnmark Estate...
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    influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament and the Finnmark Act. Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States...
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    Holmengrå is the name a small fishing village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies on a small area of flat land along the...
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    was elected. In 2005, the Finnmark Act was passed in the Norwegian parliament giving the Sámi parliament and the Finnmark Provincial council a joint...
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    Norwegian Sápmi was historically called Finnmǫrk, a name used for the county Finnmark. Sápmi overlaps with several other national, cultural and administrative...
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    democratically elected body for the Sami in Norway in 1989, and the Finnmark Act of 2005. The strong symbolism of the lavvu has also been shown in its...
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    Norwegianization of the Sámi (category History of Finnmark)
    Sametinget (2011-10-29). "Historien bak finnmarksloven" [The story behind the Finnmark Act] (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2022-03-14. Minde, Henry...
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    Sámi Parliament of Norway (category Organisations based in Finnmark)
    Sámi Act of 1987. In addition, the Sámi Rights Committee resulted in the 1988 amendment of the Norwegian Constitution, and the adoption of the Finnmark Act...
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    against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Alta River in Finnmark, Northern Norway. Inhabitants of the village of Máze rallied and formed...
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