Editing Kautokeino Municipality (section)

==== 1980-1989 ====
* On Monday, 16 February 1981, a torchlight procession is organized in Kautokeino under the auspices of the People's Campaign against the development of the Alta-Kautokeino watershed. About 250 people participate in the torchlight procession. Counter-demonstrators try to prevent the torchlight procession by blocking the road with cars and throwing a smoke bomb into the procession. No people are harmed, and no further confrontations occur between the groups.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/2d986526987b223f128625729604edb8?page=5&searchText=%22fakkeltog%20i%20kautokeino%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* On Tuesday, 3 March 1981, the municipal council decides to give equal status to Guovdageaidnu and Kautokeino as place names. Previously, the name has only been Kautokeino. The majority in the municipal council is as narrow as possible with 10 votes against 9. The minority argued that the official name should still be Kautokeino, but that the use of Sámi place names in the municipality would be allowed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/cc60c4f933181c61b8dfee6b729a23e1?page=13&searchText=guovdageaidnu |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* The new cultural center and environmental building will be opened on Saturday, 13 June 1981. The building houses a cinema/theater hall, the public library in Kautokeino, the Nordic Sami Institute, and the Sami Education Council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/29403ffcc917c5076cdcf95c6f82e769?page=1&searchText=milj%C3%B8bygget |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref> The building cost a total of 18 million kroner in 1981,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/f3b23634551e57d7f7e9f26689c9c733?page=5&searchText=milj%C3%B8bygget |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref> equivalent to 68 million in 2022.<ref name="Priskalkulator" />
* [[Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter]] is established in Kautokeino  in 1981 and is located in the new cultural center and environmental building.
* The new reindeer slaughterhouse will be opened on Friday, 11 December 1981, by Minister of Agriculture [[Johan C. Løken]]. The slaughterhouse cost 32 million in 1981, equivalent to 120 million kroner in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/8c8e55481ae4e819bb5b62f319741140?page=15&searchText=%22reinslakteriet%20i%20kautokeino%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref><ref name="Priskalkulator" />
* In February 1982, a unanimous Supreme Court concludes that the development decision regarding the development of the Kautokeino-Alta river system is valid.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/bdedd01b378235bb9840ba4130b0a378?page=0&searchText=%22h%C3%B8yesterett%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* The Finnish industrial company [[Outokumpu|Outokumpu Oy]] opens the second operating period of the Biedjovággi mines in 1985.<ref name="Askheim" />
* [[Alta Hydroelectric Power Station|Alta power plant]], where the reservoir is Virdnejávri in Kautokeino municipality, is opened in 1987.
* On 1 January 1988, the operations center at the Air Force Station in Kautokeino is closed. The number of employees is reduced from 63 to 21. The number of conscript soldiers in Kautokeino has been about 40 people, so the station has consisted of about 100 people in total before the reorganization.<ref name="Nasjonalbiblioteket" /> The Armed Forces move out of the buildings in Kautokeino city center. The buildings are later taken over by the Sami University College.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/49bf095eac00f1e60975d9699908b8ff?page=13&searchText=forsvaret |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* [[Ellen Inga O. Hætta]] becomes Kautokeino's first female mayor in 1988.
* [[Ole Henrik Magga]] from Kautokeino becomes the first Sami Parliament President in Norway after the first Sami Parliament election in September 1989.
* [[Sámi University of Applied Sciences|Sami University College]] opens on 1 November 1989.