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In 1976, the Northwest Minnesota Regional History Center, a part of the Minnesota Historical Society, conducted a bi-centennial project to record the voices of first and second generation Scandinavian Immigrants in the Upper Midwest, especially in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota. The author traveled to their homes and interviewed more than a hundred immigrants or their children to gather information on the immigrant experience. Among the issues explored with these people were conditions in the home country, reasons for emigration, the route of the emigrations and the voyage to America, initial impressions, and the first year in America. The statistical information on this immigration experience, especially for the Norwegians and the Swedes, is quite excellent, but the oral history project was also attempting to capture the intense feelings of the “divided heart” and the psychological crisis of leaving family and friends behind. The interviews also attempted to gather information as to the acculturation of the immigrants. Which new aspects of America did they accept and which did they reject Finally, the project attempted to measure the retention of Scandinavian traditions and attitudes as they existed at the time of the Bi-centennial. The Swedes, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Icelanders, and the Finns told of their retention of customs, of their church, of their educational experiences, of their language, of their literature, of their music, and, of course, of their cuisine. This book is arranged with separate chapters to examine these issues, mostly using the verbatim transcripts of the interviews. An old Icelandic woman describes traveling by covered wagon to the plains of North Dakota. An old Norwegian man describes patrolling the Swedish border when war threatened in 1905. An old Swedish woman describes homesteading on the prairie. These are wonderful and poignant words, but a transcript can never capture the musical brogue describing the longing for Norway nor can they portray the tear that rolls down a face as a man describes that last Christmas in Sweden. The author is a retired professor of history who taught at Luther College, North Dakota State University, and Minnesota State University Moorhead. PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVES Our Jewish Veterans Remember World War II PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVES Our Jewish Veterans Remember World War II ... this issue of Upper Midwest Jewish History draws upon oral ... of their Scandinavian ... Folklorist notes rich oral history of Upper Midwest ... Folklorist notes rich oral history of Upper Midwest ... notions of American history folklore the Upper Midwest ... of diversity of cultural voices has been ... Prairie Voices: An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans ... Buy Prairie Voices: An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest ... An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest Paperback ... : Gerald Anderson: Books Biography Blog ... I have also recently added "Prairie Voices an Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest." This is a collection of transcripts from about 130 ... scandinavian history eBay Prairie Voices: An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest b. $23.69; Buy It Now; Free shipping; See more like this. The Frederick Douglass Collection: 8 Classic Works pdf file The 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane: The Story of the Second Deadliest Hurricane in American History Letters to Lida: ... (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) ... Books by Gerald Anderson (Author of Death Before Dinner) Books by Gerald Anderson. ... Prairie Voices: An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest by Gerald Anderson 0.00 avg rating 0 ratings ... Publications on North American Lutheran History Publications on North American Lutheran History Copyright ... Gerald D. Prairie Voices: An Oral History of Scandinavian Americans in the Upper Midwest Gerald R Anderson Get Textbooks New Textbooks Used ... All For Strings (Comphehensive String Method Book 2 Violin) by Robert Frost Gerald Anderson Robert S. Frost Paperback 48 Pages Published 1986 by Kjos Music ... Ebook Download Prairie Voices: An Oral History of ... Download Free Black History Calendar 2015: 16 Month Calendar. ... A Novel of the American Revolution. Download Free How the Telegraph Changed the World.
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