Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The United States has banned imports from another tranche of Chinese companies over alleged human-rights abuses involving the Uyghurs, targeting 37 textile, mining and solar companies, the ...
The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries, believed to have come from the Yangtze river basin area in southern China. [1] The Hmong are known in China as the Miao , which encompasses not only Hmong, but also other related groups such as Hmu , Qo Xiong , and A-Hmao . [ 2 ]
In 1981, Margaret Wood (Navajo/Seminole) of Arizona, known for fashion design as well as for her quilts, [45] [46] published Native American Fashion: Modern Adaptations of Traditional Designs. [47] The book was the first treatment of contemporary Native American fashion and remains the sole in-depth treatment of the subject. [48]
Arna Bontemps African American Museum in Alexandria. African Americans in Louisiana or Black Louisianians are residents of the US state of Louisiana who are of African ancestry; those native to the state since colonial times descend from the many African slaves working on indigo and sugarcane plantations under French colonial rule.
Map of North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (part of the international Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763)). The Flag of French Louisiana. Through both the French and Spanish (late 18th century) regimes, parochial and colonial governments used the term Creole for ethnic French and Spanish people born in the New World.
New York City proper, according to the United States 2010 Census, is home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. [38] This trend of a largely urban population continues to be observed in 2015, with significant populations in more expensive coastal cities, and less than five ...
In a Spanish land concession, Alexander Ross of Natchez acquired 1,000 acres of land in 1796 [4] and in 1802, 115 acres were sold to Elijah Adams, becoming Live Oak plantation. Elijah Adams was a Captain in the Confederate States Army , in the 2nd Division, 10th and 20th Consolidated Regiments of and Concordia and the Feliciana Parishes.
In 1990 there were 3,425 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 3.1% of the county's Asians, and in 2000 there were 3,574 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 1.9% of the county's Asians. [25] The immigration of Japanese people to Houston was initiated by the efforts of two Japanese men, Sadatsuchi Uchida and Seito Saibara.