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The Finnish word "siita" comes from the Sámi word "siidda" and means a Lapland village, which in Sámi culture used to be a community that functioned as an social and economic unit.

 

The first residents arrived in Inari from the Verang Fjord in the north. They were hunter-fishermen from the so-called "Land of the North Sea." The second and third population waves brought influences from North-western Russia and Southern Sweden to the area. The cultures had arrived in Inari at different times and from different directions became uniform during the old metal-age and the development stage of the Sámi population began.

The Inari Sámi – The first people of Inari
Finnish settlement – The population base widens
The Skolts – A culturally distinct national group

 


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Updated 4 December 2000
Tarja Bergman / Lapland Regional Environment Centre

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