+"Far up among the mountains in upper Norrland, our tribe has lived since time "
+"immemorial. However, according to tales of old, we Lapps were not always "
+"relegated to make our living among bare mountain tops, and remains from "
+"ancient times show that the Lapps occupied spacious pastures under favorable "
+"conditions. Over the centuries, however, the Lapps had to give way to the "
+"farming Germanic race. Peaceful, calm, contained and always satisfied with "
+"his lot, the Lapp has without protest himself left what he thought belonged "
+"to him and inch by inch the Swedish settlers have taken over the grazing "
+"land used by the Lapp. They have therefore received the name \"nomadic\", "
+"i.e. constantly wandering, but may not the fact that the weaker always had "
+"to give way to the stronger be the reason for this need to wander. That the "
+"Lapp has conditions for settling down when he has earned his livelihood, the "
+"experiences of the last decades testify to that with sufficient clarity. It "
+"is an injustice if one see something of gypsy life in the forced retreat of "
+"the Lappish population. Our people would like to become permanent residents "
+"if they were given the right to do so, but they have always lived in an "
+"exceptional position, or in other words — they have been placed outside the "
+"law, outside the limits of general rights."
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