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tama

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3. Thanks for answers
Thu Sep 13, 2012, 12:24 PM
Sep 2012

Raleigh's "missing" colony was news to me.

Been looking also into how Finns and Indians got along in America, Forest Finns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Finns) who are of my Savo-tribe came to Delaware with Swedish expeditions. Both Forest Finns and Delaware tribes farmed with slash-and-burn technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden). Forest Finns excelled in building log cabins, which when built by Finns are always first saunas. Another common thing for local tribes and forest Finn settlers.

PDF on first Finnish settlers in Delaware:
http://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.finnbygden.se%2Fdownload.php%3Fcat_id%3D7%26subcat_id%3D0%26file_id%3D10%26m%3Ddownload&ei=Pg1SUL_WBMen4gSv54GYDA&usg=AFQjCNH__kkwlgxy2MkxjmM3pB3jz8zT-g&cad=rja

More:
http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article152e.htm

"Finland, where Finns live, in strong houses well built, without fortifications."
http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article229e.htm

A native American (and labor organizer) view on fellow Finns:
A http://www.hunterbear.org/reflections_on_finns_and_finnish.htm

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