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West Indian Americans of the civilian employed population 16 years and over were 1,549,890. 32.6% were employed in Management, business, science, and arts occupations, 28.5% in Service occupations, 22.2% in Sales and office occupations, 6.1% in Natural resources, construction and maintenance occupations and 10.5% in Production, transportation ...
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
However, the West was still very violent and territorial, particularly during the Plains Indian Wars of the mid-19th century. Many more Indians of different tribes, especially but not limited to the Sioux and the Blackfoot, would know the wrath of "Dapiek Absaroka" Crow killer and his fellow mountain men.
West Indiaman was a general name for any merchantman sailing ship making runs from the Old World to the West Indies and the east coast of the Americas. [1] These ships were generally strong ocean-going ships capable of handling storms in the Atlantic Ocean . [ 2 ]
A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West 1830-1885. Caxton Press. ISBN 978-0-87004-451-9. "Immigration Database". Galveston Historical Foundation. Tiling, Moritz: The German Element in Texas from 1820 to 1850 and historical sketches of the German Texas Singers' League and Houston Turnverein from 1853 to 1913, Houston 1913, 1st ed.
First responders tend to a man injured during a shooting at the West Indian Parade in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 2024.
Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799 – February 7, 1854) was an Irish fur trader in America [1] Indian agent, and mountain man. [2] He trapped for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the American Fur Company. He was among the first white men to discover South Pass, Wyoming.