Editing Siida (section)

==Finland and Russia==
In Finland and Russia, pastoralist activity is not limited to ethnic Sámi. In Finland, reindeer herding is also practiced by non-Sámi Finns. There are 56 {{Lang|fi|paliskunta}}s, of which 13 in the extreme north of Lapland constitute the Sámi area. However, reindeer herding has a more prominent economic role in the local communities of the north. {{lang|se|Siida}}s are governed like stock companies, where the reindeer-holders elect a board of directors and a chief executive officer ({{lang|fi|poroisäntä}}, 'reindeer master') every three years, voting with as many votes as they have reindeer.<ref name="inari">[http://www.inarinpaliskunnat.org/organisaatio.html INARIN PALISKUNNAT – Poronhoidon organisaatio<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927161508/http://www.inarinpaliskunnat.org/organisaatio.html |date=2007-09-27 }}</ref>

In Russia, Arctic peoples were forcibly relocated to ''[[kolchoz]]es'' (collective communities) by the state between 1927 and 1940, including the Sámi of the [[Kola Peninsula]].<ref>{{cite book|title=South Kola: A travel guide to the southern part of Murmansk oblast|last=Konttinen|first=Jussi|date=2008|publisher=Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences|location=Oulu, Finland|page=128|isbn=978-952-5153-76-7|url=http://www.ramk.fi/loader.aspx?id=103ca0d4-42a9-4017-b26a-e56c860a3826|accessdate=9 March 2021}}</ref> The Sámi were moved to ''kolchozes'' in the ''[[pogost]]s'' of Kamensky, Iokangsky, Kildinsky, [[Lovozero (rural locality)|Lovozersky]], and Voronensk,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Reprisals against the Kola Sami |last=Mihailova|first=E.R. |publisher=Cultural almanac ASTES number 5  |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=2011-05-01}}</ref> and eventually two ''[[raion]]'' (administrative district) in [[Murmansk Oblast]] were designated as Sámi districts, [[Lovozersky District]] and [[Saamsky District]].