Kashubian Americans

Kashubian Americans
Total population
(Less than 300^[1])
Regions with significant populations
Midwest
Languages
American English, Polish, Kashubian
Religion
Christianity

Kashubian Americans are Americans of Kashubian descent.^[2]^[3]

The two earliest Kashubian American settlements in the United States were 1) in the Winona, Minnesota area (including the towns of Fountain City, Pine Creek, Dodge, and Trempealeau across the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, and 2) in Portage County, Wisconsin (including the towns of Polonia, Sharon, and Hull).^[4] The Winona settlement is traditionally dated to 1855, but hard data is lacking; the Portage County settlement can definitely be traced back to 1858. Winona is dubbed "Kashubian Capital of America",^[5] because of the largest population of Kashubians there.^[2]

After the American Civil War and the German Kulturkampf of the early 1870s, Kashubians emigrated to the United States in much larger numbers. While some headed for the Winona area and for Portage County, many Kashubians wound up living in major urban centers such as Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee. A smaller number of Kashubians settled in small farming communities scattered throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.^[6] By the turn of the century, Kashubian Americans tended to identify themselves completely as Polish Americans, although in Winona (at least) the Kashubian language would survive for another generation or two.^[5]

Notable Kashubian-Americans

References

↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
1 2 The Kashubian Polish Community of Southeastern Minnesota
↑ see Fr. Władysław Szulist, Kaszubi w Ameryce: szkice i materiały, Wejherowo 2005.
↑ Albert Hart Sanford, "Polish People of Portage County," in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1907. (Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908: pp. 259-288). Referenced at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1347
1 2 Polish Cultural Institute, Inc. and Museum
↑ Szulist, Kaszubi w Ameryce: szkice i materiały.

European Americans

Central Europe	Austrian^1, ⁸ Czech⁸ Silesian German^1, ⁸ Amish Frisian German Texan⁸ Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian⁸ Hungarian Ohioans⁸ Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian⁸ Polish^1, ⁸ Kashubian Slovak⁸ Slovene⁸ Sorbian Swiss

Eastern Europe	Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Chechen Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn

Northern Europe	Estonian⁸ Finnish⁸ Latvian⁸ Lithuanian⁸ Scandinavian Danish⁸ Faroese Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish⁸

Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian⁸ Croatian⁸ Greek⁸ Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Turkish⁴

Southern Europe	Italian ⁸ Sicilian Maltese⁸ Monacan Portuguese⁸ Sanmarinese Spanish⁸ Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano

Western Europe	Belgian⁸ Flemish British^8, ⁹ Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch⁸ French⁸ Basque Breton Cajun Corsican Irish⁸ ⁹

Other Europeans	Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños

¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ² Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. ⁷ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans. ⁸ Ancestral home is a member of the European Union today despite disputes facing only for the United Kingdom over EU referendum. ⁹ Only for the UK and Ireland; they use a regional variation of the English language but traditionally distinguishes certain customs from Continental Europe.

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Kashubian Americans

Notable Kashubian-Americans

See also

References