Houses For Lapp Tent Dwellers
OSLO. Lapps whose only home is still a camp and a tent are soon to get new, modern permanent dwellings. The local council in Norway’s biggest Lapp district in Kautokeino has worked out plans for housing 300 people who still live in tents or ramshackle sheds all the year round. They belong to 45 families who live from their reindeer herds and have not sufficient income to finance the building of their own homes. The council is now seeking ways to finance the project. The Lapps are fast becoming residents—many young people after years in comfortable board-ing-schools refuse to go back to tents and nomadic ways of living. There are about 22,000 Lapps in Norway.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28802, 24 January 1959, Page 10
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