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Which ethnic groups have significantly influenced Minnesota’s population?

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Although Minnesota’s population includes a large number of people of Scandinavian origin, Germans constitute the largest single ethnic group. Other significant groups include Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Poles, Bohemians, Irish, French, and French Canadians.The Native American population in Minnesota is primarily Ojibwe (self-name Anishinaabe; also called Chippewa), about half of whom live in the Twin Cities area; most of the remainder live on reservations in rural Minnesota. Since the mid-1970s, Hispanic, Asian, and African immigrants have settled in Minnesota. Hispanics now comprise about 7 percent of the total population. Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, and Hmong refugees immigrated to the Twin Cities area beginning in the late 1970s, and refugees from Somalia began arriving in the 1990s. Minnesota now has one of the largest Hmong populations and the largest Somali population in the country.