Agnes Foster Buchanan, "The West and the Hindu Invasion" (1908)
In "The West and the Hindu Invasion," an article from the April 1908 issue of Overland Monthly, Agnes Foster Buchanan writes about the "Hindu Invasion" as the "latest racial problem" to impact the West coast, following the earlier migrations of Chinese and Japanese.
Present In All That We Do
Present in All That We Do (2007) is a 58 minute-long documentary that connects the 1907 "Anti-Hindu" riot in Bellingham, Washington to contemporary struggles for immigrant rights in Whatcom County.
East Indian workers at Calapooia Lumber Company
Photograph of six Sikh workers at the Calapooia Lumber Company in Crawford, Oregon ca. 1909.
Hindus Scared By Plan To Oust Them
An article from the September 16, 1906 issue of Puget Sound American describing fears amongst "Hindu" workers at the Bellingham Bay Lumber Company regarding a petition that white workers were circulating demanding that they remove their turbans.
Have We A Dusky Peril?
An article from the September 16, 1906 Puget Sound American describing recent "Hindu" immigration to Bellingham, Washington.
Hindu Immigration Hearings (1914)
Part 1 of the “Hindu Immigration Hearings” that took place before the U.S. Congress House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization on February 13, 1914. Attending the hearing were R.F. Patterson (the widow of former consul general in Calcutta), Anthony Caminetti (Commissioner General of Immigration), Denver S.
Jogesh Chander Misrow, "East Indian Immigration on the Pacific Coast" (1915)
Completed in 1915 at Stanford University, “East Indian Immigration on the Pacific Coast” is the Master’s thesis of Jogesh Chander Misrow. Born in Calcutta, Misrow served as an interpreter for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization service (INS). Misrow attended the University of Washington, and later received an M.A. at Stanford.
Mary Bamford, "Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West" (1917)
Published in 1917, Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West was written by Mary Bamford a missionary visitor to the Angel Island station.
Photograph of the India Society of Detroit
Photograph of the India Society of Detroit from the September 1911 issue of Modern Review.
Church Act to Keep Hindu Laborers Out
Clipping of a newspaper report entitled "Church Act to Keep Hindu Laborers Out." The article reports on a bill to exclude the Hindu laborers from the United States introduced by the Representative Church of California.
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