Hancock nominato 2026 Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture

My buddy has said that some of these Finnish-Americans wear a Sami folk dress during cultural celebrations, and this video proved to me he wasn’t kidding 😀

The Maypole confused me too until i remembered us Swedish-speakers also raise them sometimes.

Isn’t finno-ugric outdated terminology?

Growing up not too far from Hancock in Wisconsin, I can say I knew a lot of people from that area who still spoke Finnish at home even as late as the 1980’s. Far higher percentages than spoke German in any form in the area I grew up in. It wouldn’t have been a first language at that point, but we had a lot of Saari and Mackey (Mäki) and so on family names attend the university where I studied and most of them knew at least some Finnish, and several went on to do graduate programs in Finland. I won’t weigh in on the whole “capital of culture” thing but the Finnish roots are pretty strong in that area.

Cultural appropriation