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Salolampi Finnish Language Village is a Finnish language immersion camp in Bemidji, Minnesota. Founded in 1978, it is a member of the Concordia Language Villages, and celebrates Finnish and Finnish-American heritage, culture, and language. [18] [19]
Finnish branch of the Salvation Army in Brooklyn's Finntown (1942). A Finntown is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a town hall.
American Finnish, Fingliska or Fingelska is a form of the Finnish language spoken in North America. [2] [3] [4] It has been heavily influenced by the English language.American Finnish was used actively until the 1950s and after that it has been declining, and Finnish Americans have been switching to English.
The Finnish-American Heritage Centre and Finnish-American National Historical Archive, the most comprehensive collection of Finnish-American history on record, as well as museum, cinema, art gallery, home of the Finnish-American Reporter newspaper, an honorary consulate of the Republic of Finland, and a Keweenaw Heritage Site of the Keweenaw ...
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]
The Finnish American Heritage Center & Historical Archive is located at 601 Quincy Street on the campus of Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan. [4] The Finnish American Heritage Center includes a theater, an art gallery, and Historical Archives which house the largest collection of Finnish-North American materials in the world. [ 4 ]
The Anna and Mikko Pyhala Farm (pronounced [ˈpiɾhʌlʌ]) is a historic farmstead in Embarrass, Minnesota, United States, now preserved as a visitor attraction.It was established by a Finnish-American family in 1909 and includes seven surviving buildings, including several constructed with traditional Finnish log architecture, and the ruins of a prior settler's log cabin dating to around 1895 ...
Oulu (/ ˈ uː l uː / OO-loo) is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 560 at the 2020 census, up from 527 at the 2010 census. [4] The town is named after Oulu, the fifth most populous city of Finland located in the North Ostrobothnia region.