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Skolts
The
Skolt Sámi
or
Skolts
are a
Sami ethnic group
. They currently live in and around the villages of
Sevettijärvi
,
Keväjärvi
,
Nellim
in the municipality of
Inari
, at several places in the
Murmansk Oblast
and in the village of
Neiden
in the municipality of
Sør-Varanger
. The Skolts are considered to be the
indigenous people
of the borderland area between present-day
Finland
,
Russia
and
Norway
, i.e. on the
Kola Peninsula
and the adjacent
Fenno-Scandinavian
mainland. They belong to the eastern group of
Sámi
on account of their
language
and traditions, and are traditionally
Orthodox
rather than
Lutheran Christians
like most Sami and Finns.
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