Our History & Heritage - Finlandia University : Finlandia University

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Finlandia University was founded as Suomi College by Finnish Lutheran immigrants in 1896 on land ceded by the Anishinaabe people in the Treaty of 1842. We seek to honor and respect the sacred and enduring kinship of the Anishinaabe people with this land. We reject the ongoing injustices of colonization and bear witness to the dignity of all Indigenous peoples. FINNISH HERITAGE Finlandia University was founded in 1896 as Suomi College, but its heritage extends hundreds of years before that. Finnish people developed the [...]