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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

UP is a different (and wonderful) world.

My family’s farm still stands in Pelkie.

Very interesting and a cool video! Cheers from Finland

10/10 would watch the full documentary on RU-vid but would never order the dvd

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

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!!

Great video, wonderful pictures.

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

Ahh pasties

Puhuuko kukaan enää Suomea?

Tyylikäs

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