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Findians or Finndians (Finnish: fintiaanit; Swedish: findianer) are American or Canadian people that descend from the mix of Finnish Americans or Finnish Canadians and Indigenous peoples of North America, mainly the Ojibwe. Most Findians today live around the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] [3]
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Finnish Americans in Michigan. Pages in category "Finnish-American culture in Michigan" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Finnish Identity in America (1990, University of Turku) Holmio, Armas K. E. History of the Finns in Michigan (2001) Jalkanen, Ralph. The Faith of the Finns: Historical Perspectives on the Finnish Lutheran Church in America (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1972) Kivisto, Peter, and Johanna Leinonen.
A 2013 report by the Global Detroit and Data Driven Detroit stated that of the immigrant ethnic groups to Metro Detroit, the largest segment is the Indian population. [57] As of 2012, the Indian populations of Farmington Hills and Troy are among the twenty largest Indian communities in the United States.
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The Finnish diaspora consists of Finnish emigrants and their descendants, especially those that maintain some of the customs of their Finnish culture. Finns emigrated to the United Kingdom, the United States , France, Canada , Australia , Argentina , New Zealand , Sweden , Norway , Russia, Germany, Israel and Brazil.
The majority of these miners were from northern Sweden and Finland. A community of Laestadians with Sámi origins later moved to the Peninsula as well. The most well documented case of Sámi immigration was to Alaska in the 1890s, when a comparatively small number of Sámi herders were recruited by the emerging Alaska Reindeer Service .
This era saw mass emigration from Scandinavia following a population increase that the region's existing infrastructure could not support. Many prevailing traditions observed by Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are from this era, and are reflective of the lifestyle of rural immigrant communities during the late 19th century.