Aboriginals

I shall tell you more about the etnic problems here. The Same people is the aboriginal people here, they have lived here thousands of years, the ice age ended 7000 years ago, but as it is in Greenland, there were icefree areas at the Norweigan coast where people lived, the Komsa culture north of Tromsö. The reindeerowning Sames have certain rights to fish,hunt and driving with vehicles in the mountains that others don't have. Here in Tornevalley there is another group Finnish speaking Kväns. Finnish speaking people in Norway is called Kväns. Lapland is called Finnmark in Norway. Finland and Sweden was one country until 1809, when Finland was lost to Russia, the Finnish speaking people on both sides of the Torneriver was divided into two countries. Some of them think that they have been treated very bad by the Swedish Governement, and the last years a new movement has come, the Kväns. They claim that they were here before the Sames, that they shall have the special rights that the Sames have now. Some years ago, in Karesuando,in one of the northernmost schools in Sweden, the Samechildren stayed home from school because of the Kvänchildren. The road signs are in two languages in these areas, and very often the Samesigns have been thrown out in the terrain.