Storytime:
>be Sweden
>be 1600s
>start colony in Delaware (New Sweden)
>bunch of finnish dudes, a swedish governor and 1 (one) nigerian slave
>Neighboring tribe is Lenape people
>they dig holes in the ground which they cover and then set a fire in the hole
>they then climb into the hole
>governor thinks this is surely some pagan ritual
>Finns realize this is just a Sauna
>start sauna bathing with the Lenape on the regular
>Swedish governor absolutely seething
>NOOO you can't do that they are pagans!!!
>Finns ignore him
>Governor writes in his report that the Finns are horrible subjects who don't follow orders and keep meeting with the natives
Anyway the colony got conquered by the dutch and then the english, and Sweden didn't have the population to keep colonies overseas anyway (there was enough wilderness in Sweden to do "internal colonization" instead) Also a finnish boy from that colony got captured/lost and the natives raised him. Apparently he became some sort of chieftain and there were multiple reports of a "pale indian"