Hubby’s maternal line is a real mutt mix: Saami, Swedish, Scots, English, German...
A bunch of the settlers who settled what was then New Sweden were Saami...the Swedish government was dragging anybody and everybody who gave them a reason to be considered non-desirable and sending them off to North America - where they were re-abused by the colonial government. Husband’s ancestral family sold Penn the land for Philadelphia.
They weren't tough enough ~ so the colony relocated to York County PA, abandoning even Elkton Maryland.
The not-so-tough ministers went back home and in short order the old Sa'ami gods (Little Red Man, Herb Woman, and the ever present Reindeer Man) were inflicted on American culture and the rest is history.
The Swedes continued to bring Sa'ami to America over the next century until the great famines and then half the Swedes themselves left the old world to settle the Northern Midwest.
I've found what I believe to be a strong remnant of the first Scandinavian colonists (from the 1600s) in Southern Indiana. They seem to be predominantly Sa'ami. At the same time I've found the traces of a number of Swedish lords and magnates who abandoned Finland about 1809 and moved into the same area with the Sa'ami and other Finns.
Nearby Indiana University is the only school in North America that regularly provides instruction in the Sa'ami languages ~ which I think is strictly coincidental!
More on this later. I'd never studied Scanderhoovians until recently so I'm looking at this census with new eyes.