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The settler statue is one of Finland’s first statues dedicated to human work. Making and erecting it cost a lot, but the energetic activists finally managed to collect the necessary sum of money. Tapio Wirkkala judged the statue later as follows: "It is one of the works from my early years – and it shows."

A dimensioning error was first made in the base of the statue, and stonecutter Pekola quickly had to make a new one.

One day in 1987, young farmers protesting the law prohibiting land clearing covered the beloved statue with a large sack. They found that the symbol of the spirit of land should not see “this day of shame”.