Up North Films is a non-profit, documentary film production company at Northern Michigan University located in Marquette, a beautiful city of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Greetings from Finnland. Minua hiukan huvittaa nämä videot, koska niissä näkyy 'vanhaa suomea'. Suomi ja suomalaiset ovat kovasti muuttuneet vuosikymmeninä ja tätä Suomea ei oikeastaan enää ole
Im a Finnish Swedish American. My grandmother has and all of my great aunts had very similar accents. I used to really enjoy listening to them speak, especially my great aunt Helmi (rest in peace)
This guy was one tough fella. Dennis was awesome! He was smart and hard as nails. I enjoyed having some good conversations with him. They don’t make them like him anymore.
Hi! A native Finn here. I couldn't find anything online by searching the lyrics which made me think that the song might be improvised. I can try to provide a translation if it's needed/wanted.
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!!
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.
I had no idea these rugs were a Finnish American thing. My Finnish background is in Minnesota. My grandfather embraced American culture so my mom and learned very little about Finnish culture. I've been working on learning more on my own. I'd love to see this whole film as I have been learning weaving as a separate skill. I'd love to make these two things overlap.
The rag rugs are commonplace in Finland homes and cabins, still regularly made by amateurs and small scale crafters and imported from the east for department stores.. For an even more traditional Finnish weaving style look at the "Ryijy" tapestry/rug/bed throw. It is a low resolution version of a Persian rug with a long pile with a long tradition. Lots of examples here and on the web.
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.
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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.
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.
This documentary is an important gem. I am a Yank who is very interested in music like this. I will have to play along with one of my Hohner tremolo harmonicas and a pair of wooden spoons. I might need to clog dance a bit, too! Thanks for sharing this.
It was really interesting to see that 'vihta' (in my dialect 'vasta') was made from cedar. In Finland we use only silver birch (betula pendula). Obviously cedar does not grow here. Thnx, great clip!
Ah, a classic Finnish accent! Great video! Some relatives went to America too. Apparently they used to visit Finland in the 70s but not much information of them after that sadly.
My g/g grandmother came on her own from Finland. She lived in Hancock. I still live in Michigan. I love this land. Hopeful I will one day be able to connect also with the Suomi land.
I am a white man 36 I grew up in cook-orr area it was like it was programmed into me to disrespect the natives or have a negative view, but as I have grown older and hone my bushcraft and outdoors skills I realize the connection the natives have to this land is pure and forever and I find myself longing for insite or knowledge of this connection not as I want to take but simply be a part of. I was born here and cannot live anywhere else because my soul brings me right back here to lake vermilion and the white pine spirit.
I grew up in Northern Minnesota and learned Finnish because I lived with my elderly grandparents. Nearly everyone can't speak Finnish anymore. A lot of the culture has disappeared as well.
