Where did Norwegian immigrants settle?
Largely, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Canada. There are very strong Norwegian-American communities in the upper Midwest. Some third and fourth generation Americans in these places still speak Norwegian learned from parents and grandparents. Some of the first public schools in the upper Midwest were taught in Norwegian and there are still people living who remember the switchover to English in school and in the greater community. English is a second language to the Upper Midwestern states as the communities were largely German, Scandinavian and Native American.
