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Index of The Immigration History Research Center 91016262 See also American Council for Nationalities Service Commons, John R., 14 Communism and communists, 6, 12, 223; cooperatives and, 77; Croatian American, 326; Finnish American, 70, 73-75, 84, 91; Hungarian American, 117, 121; Italian American, 140, 149, 157-58; Lithuanian American, 223; Polish Ameican, 248; Serbian American, 326; Wisconsin, 86. 1882), 145 Delaware, 147; festivals, Finnish American, 75; fraternal benefit societies, Italian American, 135, 142, 147, 156, 162, 172, Tercentenary Celebration of the Swedes and Finns in, 75 Delfino, Diego (1874-1926), 146 Della Noce, Frank (b. See American Council for Nationalities Services (ACNS) Actors and actresses: Finnish American, 83; Hungarian American, 121; Italian American, 145, 153, 158-59; Polish American, 247; unions, 153 Adamic, Louis, 6, 43, 45, 108, 331-32 Adler, Selig, 1 Adult education. www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/91016262.idx.html   (3303 words)

Alan Lomax and Finnish Americans The western Upper Peninsula of Michigan forms a substantial part of the Finnish American heartland which extends across northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. European Americans, not only recent immigrants but also abundant and musically influential longtime citizens of German heritage, were given no mention whatsoever, no place in the canon. As a southerner and westerner of Anglo-American heritage, Alan Lomax was fascinated by Anglo-American music, by southern music (including the musical traditions of African Americans, Cajuns, Caribbeans, and Spanish-speaking peoples), by the fusions of all these elements in the Americas, and by the connections between American traditions and their old world hearths. www.kantele.com /nwfwebsite/lomax_leary/lomax_leary.html   (1407 words)

Project Harmony: Media about PH: Forgotten Americans of the Russian North Most Finnish-American families settled in Karelia, a Russian region bordering Finland, according to David Hosford, a worker with the St. Petersburg-based philanthropic organization Project Harmony, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject. Elmer's story is similar to other male survivors of the Finnish-American emigration wave. But the two, who are of Finnish ancestry, have lived and suffered in the former Soviet Union since the 1930s - the innocent victims of their parents' political beliefs. www.projectharmony.org /cgi-bin/pubs/press/show.pl?index=734677200   (1136 words)

Cultural Crossings: Recovering the Chicana Literary Tradition The book is organized into sections devoted to Asian American, Caribbean American, European American, and Latin American literatures, with individual chapters treating such previously neglected groups as Pakistani Americans, Korean Americans, and Finnish Americans. Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California. Each of the 22 chapters on individual immigrant literatures gives basic information about the ethnic group, its culture, and its immigrant history in the United States, which with the notes and a comprehensive bibliography results in a concise reference chapter on that particular group's contribution to U.S. literature. www.library.cornell.edu /olinuris/ref/coml120.02.html   (1702 words)

month Description: The Finnish American Reporter is a monthly, English language journal, established in 1986, featuring articles and news reports of interest to Finns across North America, in Finland and around the world. Related keywords: american ceramic society, ceramics, ceramic, american ceramics society, journal of the american ceramic society, acers, ceramics monthly, pottery, ceramic art, refractories, refractory, clay, science, ceramic engineer, ceramic education, books, magazines, members, students. Description: The American Ceramic Society, an international association that provides the latest technical, scientific and educational information to its members and others in the ceramics and ceramic related materials field, and is deidcated to the promotion and adva www.dackom.com /month.html   (1407 words)

SULAIR: Databases and Articles: Databases A-Z American Women (Library of Congress) A gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States. The ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1990+) www-sul.stanford.edu /catdb/alldata.html   (3182 words)

finncoll2.doc Finnish American Socialists were strong supporters of the school and by 1908 had gained control of it. This past year I have made an effort to begin learning the Finnish language and to become involved with the Finnish organizations in the Twin Cities area; forging new relationships and a better understanding of what it means to be Finnish-American. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Minnesota Finnish American Historical Society, the IHRC, the Minnesota Historical Society, and several local historical societies joined efforts to document the everyday life of Minnesota's Finnish-American communities. www.uwec.edu /MUIRHA/finncoll2.doc   (2497 words)

Finnish/American History and snow applet> The Finnish American Reporter, which is an English language monthly journal published to serve Finns and Finnish Americans in North America, is published in Hancock, Michigan. Hancock is also home for the Finnish American Heritage Center, which has a museum, a theater, an art gallery, and the Finnish/American historical archives. The Finnish American Reporter also has a section called "Tracing Our Roots" in which letters from people searching for information about thier ancestors are published. www.angelfire.com /mi2/yooper2/elo.html   (1086 words)

Finlandia Remodeled from a Catholic church built in 1885, the Heritage Center features the original vaulted tin ceiling and houses a theater, art gallery, museum and the Finnish-American Historical Archive. Suomi College (now Finlandia University) built in 1896, is the realization of that dream, and the only institution of higher learning founded by Finnish Americans. The mission of the FAHA is to collect and preserve the multifaceted history of North American Finns. www.finlandia.edu /fahc.html   (1220 words)

Michigan: Finnish-American Bicentennial 2000 (Community Roots: Local Legacies - Library of Congress) The Finnish-American Heritage Center of Suomi College will sponsor a series of exhibits, events, and educational programs to celebrate the Finnish-American Bicentennial. Michigan: Finnish-American Bicentennial 2000 (Community Roots: Local Legacies - Library of Congress) The project will include staff from Suomi College, local public schools, and the Finnish Theme Committee of the City of Hancock. lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/legacies/MI/200003134.html   (1220 words)

Organization and History of FATA The Finnish American Translators Association (FATA) was formed for the purpose of promoting and facilitating the translation of fiction and non-fiction from Finnish into English and vice-versa. The Annual Meetings of the Membership are typically held in connection with FinnFests (an annual festival of Finnish-Americans held in communities that have a large enough population of Finnish descent to run the Festival). The procedures he followed were exactly the same as those required by the American Translators Association. www.kantele.com /fata/history.html   (1220 words)

War and War-Era Movies: Media Resources Center UCB Story of the controversial American general George Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department. A young American woman agrees to help the French against Germany in WWI, but when she arrives in France, she finds her aunt has died and her lover is fighting for the Germans. An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps is wounded, falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse and joins her in Switzerland. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Warfilm.html   (13625 words)

Finland Diary I'm 36 years old and have been raised by Finnish-American parents who were raised by Finnish-American parents who were raised by Finnish parents. Americans are also casual in their dress -which I do enjoy -but I do wish American eating habits were not quite so casual... However, on the whole, Americans are also hard to get to know on a deeper level -I think that this has to do with the fact that Americans are not very introspective and reflective, so they don't like to analyze their own feelings and motivations deeply... blogs.washingtonpost.com /finlanddiary/2005/06/kustom_kars_on_.html   (17727 words)

ihrcfamily.xml The Project was sponsored by the Minnesota Finnish American Historical Society and the Iron Range, St. Louis County, and Otter Tail Historical Societies. Begun in 1979 and completed in 1984, the Minnesota Finnish American Family History Project had as its purpose the documentation of the personal histories and experiences of Minnesota Finnish Americans. The Collection offers a wealth of primary material with special strengths in women's, regional and family studies, as well as political and social events important to the area's Finnish Americans. special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/ihrcfamily.xml   (196 words)

ihrcfinamerican.xml The Finnish American trade unionists collection (1943) consists of conference proceedings; a pamphlet; memoranda; and correspondence relating to Finnish American activities denouncing Finland's participation as an Axis ally in World War II. Inventory of the Finnish American trade unionists collection, 1943. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/ihrcfinamerican.xml   (86 words)

Journals Indexed—RLG's Anthropology Plus Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands, ed. Amerindians, Africans, Americans: three papers in Caribbean history - presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean historians, Kingston: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, 1996. African Americans in the South: issues of race, class, and gender, ed. www.rlg.org /en/page.php?Page_ID=167   (6825 words)

brandchannel.com Brand Rankings by Impact 2004 Readers Choice Awards 2004 Global Brands branding and marketing portal brand brands branding news Three beverage brands land in Latin American’s top five; Mexico’s Corona places second, Cuba/Bermuda’s Bacardi places third and Chile’s Concha y Toro is fifth (knocking off Café de Colombia), leaving bakery brand Bimbo (fourth) to soak in all the booze. The American online auctioneer claims 95 million registered users, and in 2004 expanded abroad to Asia, South America and Europe, allowing people all over the world to sell things they don't want and buy things they don't need. Though suffering difficulties such as banned reporters, advertising boycotts, and charges of bias (arguably stemming from those who are themselves biased toward European and American interests), Al Jazeera is viewed as relatively independent within its region and is increasingly gaining mainstream credibility beyond its borders. brandchannel.com /start1.asp?fa_id=248   (5999 words)

RFE Table of Contents (complete) American Economics Group - labor expertise with legislation and litigation support over the Net   American Association of State Colleges and Universities: Office of Federal Programs   American Economic Association (AEA) Directory of Members - single largest directory of economists   www.aeaweb.org /RFE/toc.php?show=complete   (3607 words)

A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ne Played in the Canadian-American Hockey League 1926-36, the International-American Hockey League 1936-38 and the American Hockey League 1939-43. The WHA team New York Raiders was purchased from the league in 1973. The team was re-located to New Jersey in the middle of the 1973-74 season and called the Jersey Knights. www.azhockey.com /Ne.htm   (2977 words)

Pesäpalloliitto - In English Knowledge of American baseball should be helpful in understanding the rules of pesis. It is a combination of traditional ball-batting team games and American baseball. Because of the similarities and the historical background, baseball terminology is mainly used in the translation when the meaning of a word or phrase is sufficiently similar in both games. www.pesis.fi /nuorisopesis/international_site/in_english   (1121 words)

Pesapallo, or Finnish Baseball: An Old Tradition in a New Form - CULTURE Finnish, old European, and Scandinavian ball games contributed to its formation, as did the ideas of the late professor Lauri Pihkala, who was heavily influenced by American baseball. Pesapallo is a direct translation of the American word baseball: Pesa is Finnish for base and pallo for ball. Finnish kuningaspallo (kingball), Russian lapta, German Schlag-ball, and Swedish langboll were similar ball games and big favorites of that era. www.worldandihomeschool.com /public_articles/1992/april/wis19894.asp   (397 words)

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS American baseball was contested in the Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1912, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988. Finnish baseball (pesäpallo) was a demonstration sport during the 1952 Helsinki Games. American baseball became a full medal sport in Barcelona in 1992, while the similar sport of softball was added to the Olympic programme in 1996. www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BB&sportCode=BB   (264 words)

Finnish Americans Finnish American Chamber of Commerce on the Pacific Coast Finlandia University- Michigan college with a program specializing in Finnish-American studies. Salolampi Village- Finnish for "Lake in the Woods", this Finnish language village is located near Bemidji, Minnesota. www.euroamericans.net /finnish.htm   (205 words)

The Terror Finnish Americans were now caught up in the holocaust that had begun in late 1936 in the rest of the Soviet Union. Some of the Finnish Americans believed that Gylling had been promoted not understanding that their own security was now as precarious as his. Most of the children were spared, that is anyone in the Finnish American community under age 21 by 1938. www.d.umn.edu /~apogorel/karelia/Terror.html   (491 words)

Finnish Workers’ Federation of the United States, New York, Records It was the political, cultural and educational organization of the Finnish American Communists and actively supported militant labor unions, farmers' organizations, the cooperative movement and the unemployed movement. CITE AS The Finnish Workers’ Federation of the United States, New York Records, Finnish American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota The Finnish Workers' Federation of the United States was organized in 1927 and incorporated in New York City in 1932. www.ihrc.umn.edu /research/vitrage/all/fa/ihrc720.html   (220 words)

Lapphunds - Herding on the Web Swedish and Finnish breeders were at first hesitate about allowing exports because it was felt the breeds were not yet well enough established, but eventually, as result of close cooperation between prospective American breeders and Finnish breeders, several Finnish Lapphund puppies arrived. The Finnish Lapphund is presently recognized in the U.S. by the United Kennel Club and the American Rare Breed Association. The standard for the Swedish Lapphund was approved by the FCI in 1944, and eventually the Finnish Lapphund was recognized as a separate breed. www.glassportal.com /herding/lapphund.htm   (1003 words)

A Note on Finnish Given Names in America See also the author's "Finnish Surnames in America", in American Speech, XIV (1939), 33-39. A CURIOUS phenomena in modern languages is the mutation of immigrant given and surnames in the interests of the dominant American phonological pattern. In many cases the mechanics of the process was relatively simple: the addition or substitution of the consonants b, c, f, q, x, and z, which are not found in the Finnish alphabet; the dropping of a vowel or a consonant; the addition or dropping of an ending. www.genealogia.fi /emi/art/article165e.htm   (717 words)

PESIS NZ The game is based on the basics of baseball and old Finnish batting games such as Longball and Kingball. Pesapallo in the highest level has said to be the most tactical game in the world with American Football. Pesapallo is a European version of American Baseball. www.pesis.co.nz   (126 words)

President Halonen Meets with Thousands of Finnish-Americans At her Friday morning press conference, with eight Finnish-American media outlets present, Mrs. Halonen is taking several hours to visit the Finnish fair and the related festivities between her official duties. Halonen urged American Finns to take a close look at the dual-citizenship which became available in June 2003. finland.org /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=20399&...   (238 words)

U.S. Embassy Helsinki, Finland The purpose was to maximize the amount and quality of information about the United States available to the Finnish public and to strengthen American studies in Finnish universities. The American Resouce Center was established when the American Center Library in Kaivokatu moved to the University Library's premises in 1995. The American Resource Center is an authoritative source for information about the United States. www.usembassy.fi   (238 words)

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