Editing Siida (section)

{{Short description|Saami social structure}}
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[[File:Sámi local community Siida.jpg|thumb|310px|Reindeer-herding communities/Sámi settlements of 16th century Sápmi]]

A '''{{lang|se|siida}}''' is an organisation of [[humans]] traditionally present in [[Sámi people|Sámi]] societies consisting of several families of [[reindeer herder]]s whose reindeer graze together.<ref name="Kalstad 1999">{{Cite book |year=1999 |last=Hætta Kalstad |first=Johan Klemet |title=Reindriftspolitikk og samisk kultur - en uløselig konflikt? En studie av reindriftstilpasninger og moderne reindriftspolitikk |trans-title=Reindeer Herding Politics and Sámi Culture - an Unsolvable Conflict? A Study on Adjustments to Reindeer Herding and Modern Reindeer Herding Politics |language=Norwegian Bokmål |publisher=[[Sámi Instituhtta]] |series=[[Dieđut]] |number=2/1999 |location=Kautokeino |issn=0332-7779 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2009082704010 |via=[[National Library of Norway]]}}</ref>{{rp|107-109}}<ref name="Korpijaakko-Mikkel March 22, 2009">{{Cite journal|title=Siida and traditional Sami reindeer herding knowledge |last=Korpijaakko-Mikkel|first=Sara |date=March 22, 2009 |journal=Northern Review  |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-202252650.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501035825/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-202252650.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref> {{lang|se|Siida}}s traditionally encompassed more resources than reindeer,<ref name="Kalstad 1999"/>{{rp|108}} but after changes in Sámi societies over the course of the 1600s, only reindeer herders still practiced this system.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1981 |last=Aarseth |first=Bjørn |editor-last=Fladby |editor-first=Rolf |title=Gard, sii'da og andre småsamfunn i nordnorske bygder: De minste enhetenes historie i lokalhistorien |trans-title=Farm, Siida and Other Small Communities in Northern Norwegian Villages: The History of the Smalles Units in Local History |chapter=Arbeidet med de minste enhetene i de indre samiske områder |trans-chapter=The work with the smallest units in the inner Sámi areas |publisher=Universitetsforlaget |isbn=82-00-05674-0 |pages=65-88 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2014073005066?page=65 |via=National Library of Norway}}</ref>{{rp|68}} It is termed a {{lang|sv|sameby}} ('Sámi village') in [[Sweden|Swedish law]], {{lang|no|reinbeitedistrikt}} ('reindeer pasture district') in [[Norway|Norwegian law]], and {{lang|fi|paliskunta}} ('reindeer herding district') in [[Finland|Finnish law]]. The pastoralist organisation differs slightly between countries, except in [[Russia]], where [[kolkhoz]] replaced these earlier organisations.