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Isak Mikal Saba (15 November 1875 – 1 June 1921) was a Norwegian 
Saba wrote the text to ''
Isak Saba, Anders Larsen og Matti Aikio – ein komparasjon av dei samiske skjønnlitterære pionerane i Norge
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Sámi
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teacher and politician. He was born in 1875 in Nesseby
or (also unofficially ''Uuniemi'' in Kven) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varangerbotn. Other villages in Nesseby include Gandvik, Karlebotn, Nesseby ...
, Norway
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to Per Sabasen and Bigi Henriksdatter Aikio. Saba married Marie Gunneva Hansdatter Holm (1876–1961), daughter of Hans Holm Olsen and Marit Gulbrandsdatter. On 11 October 1906 he became the first Sámi to be elected to the ''Stortinget
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'' (Norwegian parliament), and he was the representative of Finnmark
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for the Norwegian Labour Party
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from 1907 to 1912. He was the mayor of Nesseby from 1914 to 1915. After serving as mayor, he worked as a teacher until his death.
Saba wrote the text to ''Sámi soga lávlla
The Sámi ( ; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Rus ...
'', which the Sámi Conference made the Sami national anthem
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in 1986.
Saba died in 1921 in Vardø
( fi, Vuoreija, fkv, Vuorea, se, Várggát) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway, more to the east than Saint Petersburg or Istanbul. The admi ...
.
References
Further reading
* Eriksen, Leif (1975): ''Isak Saba, stortingsmannen'', thesis, University of Oslo * Lindstøl, Tallak (1914): ''Stortinget og Statsraadet 1814-1914''. Kristiania * Zachariassen, Ketil (2012):Isak Saba, Anders Larsen og Matti Aikio – ein komparasjon av dei samiske skjønnlitterære pionerane i Norge
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1875 births 1921 deaths Norwegian Sámi people People from Nesseby Norwegian Sámi politicians Norwegian Sámi-language writers Norwegian Sámi activists Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting {{Norway-politician-1870s-stub