or or is a village in
Kautokeino Municipality
Kautokeino ( no, Kautokeino; se, Guovdageaidnu ; fkv, Koutokeino; fi, Koutokeino) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages ...
in
Troms og Finnmark
Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English), is a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located along the river
Kautokeinoelva
Altaelva ( en, Alta River; sme, Álttáeatnu; fkv, Alattionjoki) is the third-longest river in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The river begins in the mountains and lakes in Kautokeino Municipality, near the border with Troms og Finnmark coun ...
, about south of the town of
Alta and about north of the village of
Kautokeino
Kautokeino ( no, Kautokeino; se, Guovdageaidnu ; fkv, Koutokeino; fi, Koutokeino) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other village ...
. The village is made up predominantly of
Sami people
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, and both the Sami and Norwegian names of the village ("Máze" and "Masi") are officially recognized.
Since the 17th century, the village has been the site of
Masi Church. The present church building was built after
World War II
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to replace the previous church which the Germans had burned down.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Norwegian government considered building a dam on the local river for the proposed
Alta Hydroelectric Power Station which would have flooded the village. This was called the
Alta controversy
The Alta conflict or Alta controversy refers to a series of massive protests in Norway in the late 1970s and early 1980s concerning the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Alta River in Finnmark, Northern Norway.
Timeline
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and it had a big impact on the nation's politics at that time.
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Kautokeino
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway