Norwegian variations - nature, culture, architechture etc.

[Kalevalatar]

Finnmark (Ruija in Finnish) has a tiny old Finnish minority called the Kvens who speak the Kven language. During the Finnish national awakening in the 19th and early 20th century, the Norwegian government, not unlike the czarist Russia, was worried that the Kvens would be disloyal to Oslo or that Finland would even try to conquer the Norwegian Kvenland part and Oslo, as so many governments around the world tend to do, used this imagined Finnish threat to oppress and discriminate against the Kvens and the "landless" Sami, ban the use of Kven language etc. as part of the Norwegianization campaign.

A follow-up and update to this: the Norwegian Liberal Party and the Green Party propose a Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the mistreatment and Norwegianization of the Sami and the Kvens. The Christian Democratic Party also takes a positive stand on such a commission. The Centre Party is undecided and Solberg's Progress Party believes such commission would be "unnecessary" on account that everybody already knows the Sami and the Kvens were treated unfairly.

To partier støtter en sannhetskommisjon

Regjeringens støtteparti Venstre er og MDG er de første partiene på Stortinget som støtter etableringen av en kommisjon, som skal granske fornorskningen av samene og kvenene.