Rare American Ethnic Groups

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by AntonioR

French speaking people claim others in a mostly English speaking country and English is all they know “didn’t want to mix with them?” Maybe the meaning is lost in translation.

On the other hand, why did they all needed English captions in the video?

This is the same country where the French and French-speaking people from the Huguenots to the surviving escapees from Saint-Domingue to modern French people have been accepted and integrated into mainstream America. Alas, they learn to speak a clear English too. There are many cities founded by the French in the USA such as New Orleans in Louisiana and even beyond the “Louisiana Purchase” area such as New Rochelle in New York. Were all of them “marginalized” too when they learn yo speak a clear English? Why not?

My maternal grandmother Maggie (born in 1877) from St. Genevieve, Missouri spoke French as a child. She came from a long line of the LaRose family that had moved down the Mississippi Valley since the late 18th Century. She married a 2nd generation “German-American”, so no French was spoken in their household (nor German for that matter).
Photo from about 1915:

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by Lodestar

In Finland the Sami were forced to send their children to English-speaking schools, rules were made about herding reindeer, their source of sustenance, and the land they dwelled on was confiscated by the government. They moved to the cities and lived on government welfare which cause a decline in their health and practice of their healthy outdoor culture.

Because many had developed Asiatic features, they didn't look like other Finns, although the Finnish population likely developed from the Sami genes.

Their story is very similar to the indigenous populations everywhere. Because of these factors they kept a low profile in the New Country. There has been a Sami reawakening and many of them are now studying their culture and their nearly lost language.

Don’t you mean “Finnish-speaking schools”?