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This is less than one kilometer from the swedish border in the outskirts of a nationalpark called Borgefjells nationalpark.
This small huts are still in use for hearding the reindeers and as an overnight shelter for fishing sami.

The Sami people (also Sámi, Saami, Lapps, sometimes also Laplanders) are the indigenous people of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Their ancestral lands span across an area the size of Sweden in the Nordic countries. The Sami are one of the largest indigenous groups in Europe. Their languages are the Sami languages, which are classified as Finno-Ugric.
Many years of forced assimilation in the four countries makes it difficult to estimate the numbers of Sami. However, the population is estimated at about 85,000. The Norwegian state recognizes any Norwegian as Sami if they have one great-grandparent whose home language was Sami, but there is not, and has not been, any registration of the home language spoken by Norwegian people. Roughly half of all Sami live in Norway, but many live in Sweden too. Finland and Russia are also home to smaller groups located in the far north. The Sami in Russia were forced by the Soviet authorities to relocate to a collective called Lovozero/Lujávri, in the central part of the Kola Peninsula.
Traditionally, the Sami had a variety of livelihoods; fishing on the coast and in the inland, trapping animals for fur, sheep herding, etc. The best known livelihood is reindeer herding, but only a small percentage of the Sami have been mainly reindeer herders over the last centuries. Today, many Sami lead modern lives in the cities inside and outside the traditional Sami area, with modern jobs. Some 10% still practice reindeer herding, which for traditional and cultural reasons is allowed to Sami people only in some parts of Nordic countries

from wikipedia

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  • Copyright: Anders Mohlin (molla) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 683 W: 80 N: 952] (6935)
  • Genre: Places
  • Medium: Color
  • Date Taken: 2005-08-06
  • Categories: Nature, Architecture
  • Exposure: f/7.1, 1/60 seconds
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  • Photo Version: Original Version
  • Date Submitted: 2007-04-25 14:18
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