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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]
FinnFest USA is an annual festival, typically held in the summer, in locations throughout the United States of America.Aiming to celebrate Finland, Finnish America, and Finnish culture, the festival is organized by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a national office maintained by its president, located presently in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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.
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American people of Finnish descent (7 C, 321 P) Pages in category "Finnish diaspora in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (FELC) was organized at Calumet, Michigan in 1890. [2] FELC was defined more by its Finnish ethnic origin than by any specific theological strain. In 1896, the church established Suomi College and Theological Seminary (now called Finlandia University ) in Hancock, Michigan .
According to some estimates, Finland has over 50 heavy metal bands per 100,000 people, the largest number per capita of any country in the world.. In 2016, former president Barack Obama gave the ...
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 .