Pelkie: 100 Years of Finnishness in Michigan’s North Woods - Official Trailer

[@bilboswaggens2975]

My best friend is Finnish from Michigan. Family came here long ago. They’d be proud to see where they are today

[@RichardTauriainen]

My Dad Arthur Tauriainen born & first part of youth at Otter Lake homestead

[@ericnixon4225]

I'm glad you created this great channel,and I'm also a new subscribed user and thankful for finding this channel. I was a frequent visitor and a part-time resident of the area of Pelkie and Froberg road area and I'm very hopeful to return to that area,for good.my father was a very important person to that community,he owned a big cattle farm just off of Froberg road,he was a Pelkie Fire Department Chief,and he was also a trustee of the Baraga County board of commissioners. Thanks for your time and efforts to make these videos of places, people,and the history of all involved.❤️👍💯🙏✝️🇺🇲

[@vkoivula]

It is interesting that as a Finn I can still clearly hear a slight Finnish accent when Rudy talks 0:39 😊

[@HenrikBergpianorganist]

Dan Maki also has a slight Finnish accent, being third generation...!

[@filmfinland9691]

Clearly.

[@danvincent1195]

I student taught in Pelkie in spring of 1976. The school was awesome. There was a picture dedicated to a guernsey bull for improving the dairy cattle in the copper country.

[@oh2mp]

It's not a coincidence that so many Finns settled down to the UP. The nature is so similar to Finland. And I have understood that the climate is also quite similar like here.

[@ramsholmen]

My fathers sister have been teaching finnish in Winsor Canada, pretty close to that area. She moved there from Finland some 60 years ago, If i remember correctly most students were second or third generation immigrants from Finland.

[@FinnSwede906]

Proud to be 75% Finnish 25% Swedish and a Yooper. My family settled around Chatham and Forest Lake.

[@kolppi]

Very interesting and a cool video! Cheers from Finland

[@guynorth3277]

Great video, wonderful pictures.

[@ChrisGlenski]

Went on a road trip across the US, I found a great Finish American heritage society/ museum in CT.

[@guynorth3277]

Interesting

[@icysurfer1]

UP is a different (and wonderful) world.

[@mattlukasik2486]

10/10 would watch the full documentary on KZbin but would never order the dvd

[@MrMagooinBali]

Perhaps a little off point, but I went bear hunting with my brother on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the 1960s. Before the globalization of communication (TV and the Internet) ,many people on the peninsula seemed to proudly fly the Finnish Flag and Finnish was the language still used by a sizeable group of new immigrants and 2nd & 3rd generation rFinnish immigrants. I remember stopping on a backwoods road and asking directions from a teenage boy of about my age. I was started to hear his very thick Finnish accents from someone was almost certainly a native-born American. Does anyone know if the Finnish lilt can still be heard in those parts? Is Finnish still spoken or taught in local schools In the intervening years, I have coincidentally come to deeply admire and study the music of Sibelius. Y wonder if anyone today in a Pelie or a Houghton bar be impressed iI visited and suddenly broke into one of my favorite tunes "Finlandia." - albeit in a horrendous accent? Tässä on isänmaa - Suomi. Ohita Akvavit!!

[@icysurfer1]

Yes, you can still hear the Finnish 'lilt.'I was in Houghton for a couple weeks. Loved it. People are quite civil. At worst grumpy, a vast improvement over SE MIchigan.

[@mperrin68]

Any Kalliainen's there? My Grandma was Kaisa Kalliainen. Her brother was Simon and others. Grandma came to America in 1892 through Ellis Island.

[@bobwallace9814]

My mom's side arrived in Ironwood from Finland in the 1800's. The family name was Brannes.

[@carblarson8868]

Mine from Sweden and Norway. I have less than1% Finnish in me, according to one of those DNA tests.

[@DetroitGoldie]

My family’s farm still stands in Pelkie.

[@bob-ft7zr]

Hi, just curious where? (I drive through Pelkie pretty much every day so I'm quite familiar with the area)

[@DetroitGoldie]

30970 Tapiola Rd, Pelkie, MI

[@JariMattiK]

@@DetroitGoldie funny they named roads as a finnish suburbs and areas.. greetings from finland! do you guys speak finnish?

[@DetroitGoldie]

@@JariMattiK My elders did. I do not. 😑

[@JariMattiK]

@@DetroitGoldie okay okay never too late to learn! :D

[@CreativeHuckleBerry]

Is there eny Finn-Swedish speakers left? Meny left from Ostrobothnia for America/Canada and never returned.

[@hockeymom49721]

Drive through Pelkie last August....interesting disappeared old town.

[@johanna_na]

So strange to hear two of the men in this video speak English with a Finnish accent! 😮

[@pekkakuosmanen65]

Puhuuko kukaan enää Suomea?

[@bryanjones14]

My maternal grandfather did , his sir name was tikinen

[@pekkakuosmanen65]

@@bryanjones14 Tikinen? Maybe, but Tikkanen is common name here. Of course Tikinen is possiple. Rare .

[@bryanjones14]

@@pekkakuosmanen65 I mis spelled

[@pekkakuosmanen65]

@@bryanjones14 Also Takkinen is surname. Happy new Year 2022 to USA!

[@catherinetrinh3260]

Thank you KZbin for sending me this channel! While my family are Minnesota Finn's, my grampa emigrated to Detroit. He always told us that we have the map of Finland on our face! It's good to know why. To answer the question of does anyone speak Finnish anymore, Suomi College may still teach it. My grampa wouldn't teach us because he said that the Finnish he spoke isn't used anymore.

[@jonsmith9708]

Ahh pasties

[@Nakkisampyla]

Tyylikäs

[@daleolson3506]

If you make a dvd kill the unnecessary music 👎👎👎👎💩💩😬