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The “Lapp Fund ” (“Finnefondet ” in Norwegian) was one of the main economic instruments in the norwegianization policy implemented by the Norwegian state towards the Sámi and Finnish speaking population in Norway (Dahl, 1957. Eriksen & Niemi, 1981, Minde, 2003). It was established as an extra gr...
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| Summary: | The “Lapp Fund ” (“Finnefondet ” in Norwegian) was one of the main economic instruments in the norwegianization policy implemented by the Norwegian state towards the Sámi and Finnish speaking population in Norway (Dahl, 1957. Eriksen & Niemi, 1981, Minde, 2003). It was established as an extra grant in the state budget in 1851. After 1921 the budget post was given a more anonymous name, but it was operative up to the 1950s (Eriksen & Niemi, p. 48-61. Dahl, p. 124-125.). The Lapp Fund’s formal purpose was to strengthen the educational system, and especially the teaching of Norwegian language, in Sámi and Finnish areas of Northern Norway. Among the measures that were financed by the Fund were building of schools, among them 49 boarding schools (from 1905 and onwards), houses for the teachers, roads to the schools, printing of schoolbooks, often with double Sámi-Norwegian or Finnish-Norwegian texts, religious books in Sámi or Finnish, poor relief for parents and children, payment for boarding and lodging for families housing pupils, scholarships for both pupils and teachers and what |
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