Editing Upper Peninsula of Michigan (section)

==Culture==
[[File:2009-0617-DaYooperTouristTrap.jpg|thumb|"Da Yoopers Tourist Trap", near Ishpeming, features a host of items in its museum and store that play up Yooper stereotypes]]

Early settlers included multiple waves of people from [[Nordic countries]], and people of Finnish ancestry make up 16% of the peninsula's population. The [[Finnish sauna]] and the concept of ''[[sisu]]'' have been adopted widely by residents of the Upper Peninsula. The television program ''[[WLUC-TV#Finland Calling|Finland Calling]]'' was for a long period the only Finnish-language television broadcast in the United States; it aired on Marquette station [[WLUC-TV]] from March 25, 1962, until March 29, 2015.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steele |first1=Anne |title=After 53 Years, Mr. Pellonpaa Is Finnished |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-53-years-tvs-finland-calling-is-finnished-1427414613 |access-date=September 20, 2015 |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=March 27, 2015 |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106180733/http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-53-years-tvs-finland-calling-is-finnished-1427414613 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Finlandia University]], America's only college with Finnish roots, was located in Hancock, but has shut down as of spring 2023.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Mary |last2=Hunt |first2=Don |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Keweenaw Peninsula |year=2007 |title=Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula |publisher=Midwestern Guides |location=Albion, Michigan |url=http://hunts-upguide.com/keweenaw_peninsula.html |access-date=October 1, 2006 |isbn=978-0-9709094-0-4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030164957/http://hunts-upguide.com/keweenaw_peninsula.html |archive-date=October 30, 2014 }}</ref> Street signs in Hancock appear in English and Finnish to celebrate this heritage.

Other sizable ethnic communities in the Upper Peninsula include [[French Canadian|French-Canadian]], German, [[Cornish people|Cornish]], Italian, and [[Ojibwe people|Ojibwe]] ancestry.

People from the Upper Peninsula [[Yooper dialect|speak a dialect]] influenced by Scandinavian and French-Canadian speech. A popular bumper sticker, a parody of the "Say YES to Michigan" slogan promoted by state tourism officials, shows an outline of the Upper Peninsula and the slogan, "Say ya to da UP, eh!" The dialect and culture are captured in many songs by [[Da Yoopers]], a comedy music and skit troupe from [[Ishpeming, Michigan|Ishpeming]].

The Keweenaw Peninsula is home to several ski areas. [[Mont Ripley]], just outside Houghton, is popular among students of [[Michigan Technological University]] (the university actually owns the mountain). Further up the peninsula in the small town of [[Lac La Belle, Michigan|Lac La Belle]] is [[Mount Bohemia|Mt. Bohemia]]. A skiing purist's resort, Bohemia is a self-proclaimed "experts only" mountain, and it does not [[Snow grooming|groom]] its heavily [[glade skiing|gladed]] slopes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mtbohemia.com/warning.html |access-date=February 9, 2009 |title=Warning |publisher=Mount Bohemia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501151912/http://www.mtbohemia.com/warning.html |archive-date=May 1, 2008 }}</ref> Other ski areas are Pine Mountain located in Iron Mountain, Norway Mountain in the town of the same name, and the [[Porcupine Mountains Ski Area]] located in Ontonagon.

Houghton is where professional ice hockey was first started in 1904.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sproule |first=William J. |year=2019 |title=Houghton: The Birthplace of Professional Hockey |location=Calumet, Michigan |publisher=Copper Island Printing }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fischler |first1=Shirley W. |last2=Fischler |first2=Stanley I. |last3=Eskenazi |first3=Gerald |date=August 4, 2021 |title=ice hockey |url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=April 16, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=November 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103093203/https://www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Regional identity===
[[File:Traditional Yooper pasty, Munising, Michigan, June 2009.jpg|thumb|upright|A Yooper pasty (beef)]]
As of 2018, the western Upper Peninsula is home to about 173,887 people, while the eastern Upper Peninsula is home to about 133,499 people, a total of 307,386—only about 3% of the state's population—living in almost one-third of the state's land area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/western-upper-peninsula-puma-mi/ |title=Western Upper Peninsula PUMA, MI |access-date=July 30, 2018 |work=Data USA |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234806/https://datausa.io/profile/geo/western-upper-peninsula-puma-mi/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/western-upper-peninsula-puma-mi/ |title=Eastern Upper Peninsula PUMA, MI |access-date=July 30, 2018 |work=Data USA |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234806/https://datausa.io/profile/geo/western-upper-peninsula-puma-mi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Residents are known as Yoopers (from "UP-ers"), and many consider themselves Yoopers before they consider themselves [[Michigander]]s.<ref name = "HuffPost">{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/yoopers-upper-peninsula-new-word_n_5042423.html |first=Kate |last=Abbey-Lambertz |title=You've Probably Never Heard of a Yooper, But Here's Why You'll Wish You Were One |date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=July 30, 2018 |newspaper=[[HuffPost]] |archive-date=September 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926155806/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/yoopers-upper-peninsula-new-word_n_5042423.html |url-status=live }}</ref> (People living in the Lower Peninsula are commonly called "[[troll]]s" by Upper Peninsula residents, as they live "[[Three Billy Goats Gruff|Under the Bridge]]".) This [[regionalism (politics)|regionalism]] is not only a result of the physical separation of the two peninsulas, but also the history of the state.

Residents of the western Upper Peninsula take on some of the cultural identities of both Wisconsin and Michigan. In terms of sports fandom, residents may support Detroit professional teams or those of Wisconsin—particularly the [[Green Bay Packers]]. This is a result of both proximity and the broadcast and print media of the area. The four counties that border Wisconsin are also in the Central Time Zone, unlike the rest of Michigan, which is on Eastern time. In some cases, commercial cartographers draw incorrect maps that inadvertently annex the Upper Peninsula into Wisconsin.<ref name="Keith">{{cite news |last=Keith |first=Emma |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Mountain Dew apologizes to Upper Peninsula, will make special label |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/07/11/mountain-dew-upper-peninsula/1701444001/ |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |location=Detroit |access-date=July 12, 2019 }}</ref>

===Cuisine===
{{See also|Cuisine of Michigan}}
The Upper Peninsula has a distinctive local cuisine. The [[pasty]] (pronounced "pass-tee"), a kind of meat turnover originally brought to the region by Cornish miners, is popular among locals and tourists alike. Pasty varieties include chicken, venison, pork, hamburger, and pizza, all of which many restaurants serve.<ref name = "HuffPost"/>
Many restaurants serve potato sausage and ''[[cudighi]]'', a spicy [[Italian cuisine|Italian]] meat.

Finnish immigrants contributed ''[[Pulla|nisu]]'', a [[cardamom]]-flavored sweet bread; ''[[limppu]]'', an [[Eastern Finland|Eastern Finnish]] rye bread; ''[[pannukakku]]'', a variant on the pancake with a custard flavor; ''[[viili]]'' (sometimes spelled "fellia"), a stretchy, fermented Finnish milk; and ''[[rusk|korppu]]'', hard slices of toasted cinnamon bread, traditionally dipped in coffee. Some Finnish foods such as ''juusto'' (squeaky cheese, essentially a [[cheese curd]], like [[Leipäjuusto]]) and ''saunamakkara'' (a ring-bologna sausage) have become so ubiquitous in Upper Peninsula cuisine that they are now commonly found in most grocery stores and supermarkets.

[[Maple syrup]] is a highly prized local delicacy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Mary |last2=Hunt |first2=Don |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Specialty Foods |year=2007 |title=Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula |publisher=Midwestern Guides |location=Albion, Michigan |url=http://hunts-upguide.com/ |chapter-url=http://hunts-upguide.com/specialty_foods.html |access-date=March 31, 2007 |isbn=978-0-9709094-0-4 |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001064438/http://hunts-upguide.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Fresh Great Lakes fish, such as the [[lake trout]], [[Coregonus|whitefish]], and (in the spring) [[Smelts|smelt]] are widely eaten. There is minimal concern about contamination of fish from Lake Superior waters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.michigan.gov/documents/FishAdvisory03_67354_7.pdf |title=Michigan Fish & Game Advisory |publisher=Michigan Department of Community Health |year=2010 |access-date=February 5, 2011 |archive-date=December 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214102553/http://www.michigan.gov/documents/FishAdvisory03_67354_7.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Smoking (food)|Smoked]] fish is also popular. [[Thimbleberry]] jam and [[chokecherry]] jelly are a treat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/driving-michigans-upper-peninsula/?page=2 |title=Travel & Leisure, Driving Michigan's Upper Peninsula |publisher=Travelandleisure.com |access-date=July 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914074024/http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/driving-michigans-upper-peninsula/?page=2 |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>