Controversies in Finland

Finnish composer (1892-1959)

thumb|right|Members of the Iriadamant community in Kittilä, October 1992. The Iriadamant were a community, also described as a cult, that lived in northern Finland from 1991–1993. The residents of the community were mainly French and Belgian but dressed in Native American costumes. The group arrived in Finland with the support of Professor Erkki Pulliainen of the University of Oulu with the intention of "studying living in nature" and learning self-sufficiency. In the fall of 1991, the group founded a camp near Kittilä. Although of European descent, they were referred to as "Kittilä's Indians"