Title: They chose Minnesota : a survey of the state's ethnic groups /
Authors: Holmquist, June Drenning.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Minorities Minnesota.; Minnesota History.; Minnesota Ethnic relations.
Abstract: Based on ground-breaking research, this book describes the unique concerns of individual ethnic groups and delves into their personal Minnesota stories: farmers and factory workers, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists, people who were devout or irreligious -- those who cut ties with their homeland and formed part of Minnesota's ethnic saga.
Contents: North Americans: -- The Dakota and Ojibway -- The French Canadians and French -- The old-stock Americans -- The Blacks -- The Mexican Americans -- Northern and western Europeans: -- The British -- English, Scots -- The Irish -- The Germans -- The Low Countries -- Belgians, Netherlanders, and Luxembourgers -- The Swiss -- The Norwegians -- The Swedes -- The Danes -- The Icelanders -- The Finns and Swede-Finns -- Central and southern Europeans: The Baltic peoples -- Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians -- The Czechs -- The Slovaks -- The Poles -- The South Slavs -- Bulgarians, Croatians, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Slovenes -- The east Slavs -- Rusins, Ukrainians, Russians, and Belorussians -- The Hungarians -- The Romanians -- The Italians -- The Greeks -- The Jews -- Middle Eastern and Asian Peoples: -- Middle Easterners -- Syrians, Lebanese, Armenians, Egyptians, Iranians, Palestinians, Afghans -- The Chinese -- The Filipinos -- The Japanese -- The Koreans -- The Indochinese -- Vietnamese, ethnic Chinese, Hmong, Lao, Cambodians -- Appendix on statistics.