, , or is a village in
Kautokeino Municipality
Kautokeino (; ; ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Kautokeino (village), village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villag ...
in
Finnmark
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county,
Norway
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.
The village is located along the river
Kautokeinoelva, a tributary of the Alta river. about south of the town of
Alta and about 60 kilometres north of the village of
Kautokeino
Kautokeino () may refer to:
Places
*Kautokeino Municipality (also known as: ), a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
*Kautokeino (village)
, , or is the administrative centre of Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The vill ...
. The village is made up predominantly of
Sami people
Acronyms
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, a non-Norwegian group indigenous to the Fennoscandinavian peninsula .
has stood in the town since the 17th century. The present church building is a reconstruction built after the original was torched by German soldiers during the
Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II.
During the late 1970s, the Norwegian government planned to construct the
Alta Hydroelectric Power Station downstream, which was expected to flood Masi, upstream Kautokeino, and the surrounding reindeer pasture and disrupt
reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, taiga, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only re ...
migration and wild
salmon
Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ...
fishing. Masi was among several sites of protest in what became known later as the
Alta controversy.
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Kautokeino
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway