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• Main Author: Julie Semb, Anne
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Alta; Norway; sami
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen370; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118663202.wberen370; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen370

The Sami population in Norway consists of approximately forty to forty‐five thousand persons. For several decades, the Sami were subject to a systematic policy of assimilation that was known as Norwegianization. This policy led to a decline in the use and command of Sami languages, which traditionally have been the most important markers of Sami ethnicity. The Alta affair in Norwegian politics triggered large‐scale changes in the relations between the Sami and the Norwegian state. Several separate Sami institutions have been established. They have contributed to creating a new Sami public space and correspondingly greater visibility for the Sami.