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 == Quote from Norwegian Travellers source == 

 I've found this article differentiating the Romani and the Norwegian Travellers  still looking for more.  Here's the quote, which is a footnote in the larger article: 

 Norwegian travellers, Tatere, were numerous and belonged to several different tribes or groups. They were to an extent considered troublesome by peasants, but most of all the emerging social democratic state saw it as its duty to bring the travellers into the ‘modern world’, that is, into the workforce, schools and houses. This was partly achieved by force – by confiscating their horses and wagons, by forcing them into camps where they were taught to work, read and write, and by taking the children of those who resisted, placing them with Norwegian peasants. Instances of lobotomy and sterilization are also reported. This assimilation went on, using gentler means, up to the late 1960s. 

 I'll try to search on Tater and Tatere and see if that leads me anyplace.      "