[1] The congress was the first time that Norwegian and Swedish Sámi came together across national borders to work on finding solutions to common problems.

[3] The Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authorities recommend general flagging on the day.

[3] By coincidence, February 6[4] was also the date representatives of the Sámi of the Kola Peninsula gathered annually to meet with Russian bureaucrats to debate and decide on issues of relevance to them.

This assembly, called the Kola Sobbar, has been dubbed the "first Sámi Parliament" by the researcher Johan Albert Kalstad.

However, the founding of the Kola Sobbar did not influence the choice of the date for Sámi People's Day, as the assembly existed only during the late 1800s and was largely forgotten until the early 2000s.