Akkajaur

Akkajaur belongs to the forest Sámi country around Arvidsjaur, a landscape of lakes, marshes and wooded hills. Sámi families used the forests for reindeer herding, hunting and fishing, moving between the resources of a broad interior territory. The Swedish crown's Lappmark proclamation of 1673 encouraged settlers to take up land in the north, while declaring that they should not disturb Sámi livelihoods or occupy their tax lands.