trivia of the week: Who are Wendish

 The OnLineBook page has a link to a book on the Texas Wendish.

Wendish? An Amerindian tribe I never heard of?

Nope. Slavic Wends from Germany who settled there almost 200 years ago.

Why? To keep their religion intact and to keep their ethnic heritage intact.

a lot of Slavic and German mixtures in what used to be East Germany, and the history is mentioned here in Masaman's ethnic lecture.

and the culture is still around in Texas: 

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and yes I noted they use the word "noodling around", which is a word that I ran across for the first time a couple weeks ago.