lappmark (Pite River valley) Luleå lappmark (Lule River valley) Kemi lappmark (Kemi River valley, separated from Tornio lappmark in 1633) State took Lappmarken...

[citation needed] As a Sami settlement the area belonged to Kuusamo Kemi-Lappmark at the time. Nominally it belonged to the territory of the Swedish province...

1606, but rather only by forest Sami, as was the Kemi lappmark in modern Finland. The forest Sami in Kemi, Åsele, and Lycksele became assimilated into Finnish...

Tornio being their main area. Each of the valleys formed a separate "lappmark" with its own birkarls. Sami people south of Piteå were "Crown Samis" that...