Aslak Jacobsen Hætta (24 January 1824 – 14 October 1854) was one of the leaders of the Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu, called the Kautokeino Rebellion, in November 1852. During the riots, the merchant Carl Johan Ruth and the local government official Lars Johan Bucht were killed and the pastor Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef was whipped. Hætta was sentenced to death for the murder of Carl Johan Ruth and executed by beheading at the age of 30 years. Hætta was married to Marith Persdatter Kurak and they had two children. Hætta, and the rebellion, are the subject of the 1922 opera ''Aslak Hetta'' by Finnish

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, Armas Launis, in which their story has been somewhat fictionalized.

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at Norsk biografisk leksikon (NBL) 1824 births 1854 deaths Executed Norwegian people Norwegian people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Norway People executed by Norway by decapitation People executed for murder 19th-century executions by Norway Norwegian Sámi people Sámi rebels People from Kautokeino Kautokeino rebellion 19th-century Sámi people {{norway-bio-stub