[4] Karhun kansa is part of Suomenusko ("Finnish Faith"), the contemporary revival of pre-Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finns.
[8][9] Karhun kansa as a community holds four annual ceremonies:[10] Kekri is characterized by great feasting, thanks to the natural bounty provided by the past growing season.
Bear as a supernatural and holy ancestral being is invited to the feast, and numerous rituals are performed to venerate him, and in order to secure his kindness and future cooperation.
In expectation of the new gender neutral marriage law that will come into effect 1 March 2017, People of The Bear has announced itself ready to marry same sex couples.
People of The Bear has said however, that one of the parties willing to get married need to have "a living relationship to Finnish traditional beliefs or Finnic mythology".