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#Estonian immigrants have not stirred much reaction from the dominant culture in America, as the group is rather small in number

#Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church is easily the largest organized religious group within the #Estonian American community, with 38 congregations and 12,032 members across North America

#Estonian Americans, as well as other Eastern European immigrant groups, were particularly outraged by the 1945 U.S.-Soviet agreement at Yalta, which they viewed as a sellout of the nations under communist domination

#Estonian Americans have tended to specialize in science and technology, moving into fields such as engineering and architecture.

Early #Estonian American settlements arose on both coasts, in New York City and around San Francisco and Astoria, Oregon.

#Estonian Americans have served in the U.S. armed forces in every significant military conflict in the twentieth century.

A number of schools, publications, congregations, and learned societies within the community still use #Estonian as a means of discourse

A number of public libraries throughout the United States offer #Estonian language collections, including the Boston Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Cleveland Public Library.

#Estonian Americans have embraced medicine as it is practiced in the United States and have been eager to become medical practitioners

#Estonian Americans have created a large network of social and cultural organizations, schools, churches, and clubs to keep alive the language and culture of their homeland

#Estonian Americans do not wear a distinctive everyday garment that would set them apart as being #Estonian.

#Estonian Americans are closely affiliated with immigrants from other Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland)

In the late nineteenth century, there were rural, agricultural colonies of #Estonian Americans in Fort Pierre, South Dakota; Bloomville, Wisconsin; Dickenson, North Dakota; and Chester, Montana, among other places

The U.S. Census of 1990 lists 26,762 Americans claiming #Estonian as a first or second ancestry.

A number of factors have contributed to a high degree of assimilation among #Estonian Americans: the size of the community, its rapid educational and social success, and the wide geographical dispersion of the immigrants.

#Estonian American women have formed numerous local, national, and international women's organizations centered on educational, cultural, and social concerns and have banded with other Baltic-American women's groups to achieve common goals.

The U.S. Census of 1990 lists 26,762 Americans claiming #Estonian as a first or second ancestry.

In #Estonian American communities Lutheranism continues to be the dominant religious force

In the late twentieth century, however, #Estonian Americans have rapidly climbed the social and economic ladder, specializing in areas of technical expertise