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Finnish settlement
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Following the Strömstadt
Border Agreement of 1751, Inari (the most northern village in "Kemi Lapland")
became part of Sweden. The state administration wanted to strengthen its hold on this
northern region. In addition to settling the area, it was considered important to teach
the Finnish language and to develop livelihoods. Those Laplanders that had paid taxes were recorded in the tax records as new taxpayers - after they had adopted peasant livelihoods. The names of farms were recorded in Finnish and families adopted the new names. The first Finnish settlers came at the end of the 1700s. A far greater number of Finns moved into the region in the 1800s. They started farming and breeding cattle, which complemented the traditional livelihoods of fishing and hunting and periodic work such as freighting and logging.
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