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List of Angolan Americans
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Angolan Americans are Americans of Angolan descent or Angolan immigrants. According to estimates, by the year 2000 there were 1,642 people descended from Angolan immigrants in the United States, however, the number of Angolan Americans is difficult to determine and may be much higher as many African-Americans could be descendants of Angolan slaves. In 1644, most of the 6,900 slaves bought on the African coast to clear the forests, lay roads, build houses and public buildings, from the 17th century to the early 19th century, many Angolans were brought as slaves to the United States. Angolan slaves may have been the first Africans to arrive in the Thirteen Colonies, according to Sheila Walker and this refers to an event in 1617 in Jamestown, Virginia, when Angolans were diverted by a Spanish ship to an English ship bound for Mexico. These first Angolan slaves of Virginia were Mbundu and Bakongo, who spoke Kimbundu, many of these early slaves were literate. Later, slaves were stolen by English and Dutch pirates from the Portuguese when the left with the slaves from the Angolan port of Luanda. Many of these slaves were imported by the Dutch to New York City, thus, the Angolans also were the first slaves in New York City. In 1621, Angolan former slave Anthony Johnson arrived in Virginia and was the first documented slave in the English colonies to earn his freedom and, in turn. Anthony Johnson was granted ownership of John Casor after a case in 1654. The Angolan slavery trade in the United States reached its greatest magnitude between 1619 and 1650, in 1644,6,900 slaves on the African coast were purchased to clear the forests, lay roads, build houses and public buildings, and grow food. Most of these were from the colonies in the West Indies. During the colonial period, people from the region Congo-Angola made up 25% of the slaves in North America, based on the data mentioned, many Angolan slaves came from distinct ethnic groups, such as the Bakongo and the Tio and Northern Mbunbu people. However, not all kept the culture of their ancestors. The Bakongo were Catholics, from the kingdom of Kongo who had converted to Catholicism in 1491 after the Portuguese conquered this territory. The slaves of Angola made up the majority of the slaves in South Carolina and were one of the main groups in other places. In Virginia, most slaves came from within the boundaries of the modern nation-states of Nigeria, between 1710 and 1769, only 17% of the slaves who arrived in Virginia were from Angola. Others places in the United States, such as Delaware and Indiana, many of the Bakongo slaves who arrived in the United States in the 18th century were captured and sold as slaves by African kings to other tribes or enemies during several civil wars. Some of the people sold from Kongo to the United States were trained soldiers, in 1739, there was an uprising in South Carolina, where possibly 40% of the slaves were Angolan
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List of Asian Americans
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This page is a list of notable Asian Americans. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo Vikram Pandit, president and CEO of Citigroup Ram Shriram, co-founder of Junglee. Wang, co-founder and former CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. Jerry Yang, Taiwanese American internet entrepreneur, engineer, Inc Min Zhu, co-founder and former president and chief technical officer of WebEx. H. I. E. L. D. S. Nakamura, pioneering filmmaker, teacher, co-founder of Visual Communications Dr. Haing S. Ngor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985, dustin Nguyen, actor,21 Jump Street and V. I. P. C. Nichkhun Horvejkul, member of South Korean boy group 2PM Magdalen Hsu-Li, out bisexual Chinese American singer-songwriter recording artist, poet, chad Hugo, musician and producer, member of The Neptunes and N. E. R. D. William Hung is a contestant from American Idol Tiffany Hwang, Korean American member of girl group SNSD, a. R. Rahman, Grammy Award-winning composer/arranger, songwriter, and music producer Ramon Ibanga, Jr. Jessica Jung, Korean American member of girl group SNSD. Michael Kang, mandolin player, violinist, and vocalist for String Cheese Incident, is South Korean, also famous in South Korea as the former leader of South Korean boyband 2PM. Mike Shinoda and Joseph Hahn are successful Asian Americans in the rap rock band Linkin Park. Shaffer Chimere Smith, R&B singer, songwriter, and actor. S, the Slants, first all Asian American dance rock band. Ruthie Alcaide – house mate on MTVs The Real World, Hawaii, raj Bhakta – The Apprentice 2 contestant Yau-Man Chan – Survivor, Fiji contestant Gina Choe – Americas Next Top Modelcycle 6 contestant. Bansal was the Solicitor General for the State of New York, norman Bay was the U. S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and the first Chinese-American to hold such a U. S. Attorney position. Morgan Chu is a prominent litigator and former Managing Partner of Irell & Manella, Viet D. Dinh was a United States Assistant Attorney General and a key drafter of what became the USA PATRIOT Act. Heather Fong is the first Asian American woman to head a metropolitan police department. Todd Kim is the first Solicitor General for the District of Columbia, harold Hongju Koh is dean of Yale Law School. Arsalan Iftikhar International human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy Lance Ito was the judge in the OJ Simpson trial. Fred Korematsu was a prominent resister of Japanese American internment, carol Lam was the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of California David Lat is an attorney and blogger for the sites Underneath Their Robes and Above the Law. William F. Lee is Co-Managing Partner of the law firm of WilmerHale. Dale Minami is an attorney who helped reverse Fred Korematsus criminal conviction, rachel Paulose is the U. S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota
List of Asian Americans
List of Asian Americans
List of Asian Americans
List of Asian Americans
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List of Australian Americans
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Australian Americans are Americans who have an Australian ancestry. In San Francisco, the Sydney Ducks as they were known came into violent conflict with nativist locals, transpacific immigration then dried up while the American Civil War raged. It picked up during the period of Reconstruction, but faltered again when Australia was hit by a depression in the late 1890s. Immigration to the United States peaked in the years following World War II, due to Americas increased economic activity, from 1971 to 1990, more than 86,400 Australians and New Zealanders immigrated to the United States. At the 2000 U. S. Census,60,965 Australian born people were enumerated in the United States, around 40% of Australian Americans had entered the United States before 1980. American Australians Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Little Australia
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List of Cajuns
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This is a list of notable Cajuns, often from the Acadiana or Greater New Orleans regions of French Louisiana, though not limited in geographic origin. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Cajuns or must have references showing they are Cajuns and are notable. Brasseaux, historian, writer James Lee Burke, writer Mary Katherine Campbell, meaux, songwriter, music producer, nicknamed The Crazy Cajun Elemore Morgan, Jr. S. Oliver Naquin, Admiral, U. S. Reid Brignac, self-proclaimed Cajun God of Baseball, shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays, born in St. Amant, Louisiana. Xavier Paul, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Amos Moses, from Jerry Reeds song Amos Moses Leatherhead, gambit, long-standing member of the X-Men, is a New Orleans native who is proud of his Cajun heritage. In the film The Magnificent Seven, lead character Chris Adams, bobby Boucher, main character played by Adam Sandler in the film The Waterboy. Guillaume Bill Dauterive, from the cartoon King of the Hill, at one point, they travel to Louisiana in the episode titled A Beer Can Named Desire, where Bill demonstrates his proficiency in Creole French. As Bill had never learned French before, its implied that he just instinctively knew it, jay Chef Hicks, U. S. Navy Swiftboat engineman who brings Captain Benjamin Willard to Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Polycarp, host of the childrens TV show Polycarp and Pals broadcast locally by KATC television channel 3, Lafayette, Bayou Billy, video game and comic book character in The Adventures of Bayou Billy for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Konami. Emile Dufraisne, video game character in Splinter Cell Double Agent, dave Robicheaux, the central character of James Lee Burkes award winning crime novels set in New Iberia and New Orleans. In the 1960s TV series Combat, about a U. S. Army infantry squad in World War II France, regular squad member PFC Paul LeMay was Cajun and known as Caje, he often served as the interpreter when interacting with the French locals. Caje was played by Pierre Jalbert, who was actually French-Canadian, in the film Universal Soldier, the lead character Luc Devreaux, played by Van Damme is a Cajun from the town of Meraux. In the film Hard Target, the lead character Chance Boudreaux, in the webcomic Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler, two anthropomorphic cats, Nico and Serafine Savoy, are Cajuns. In David Lynchs film Wild at Heart, sisters Perdita and Juana Durango are Cajun, rene Lenier, in the HBO series True Blood. Virgil, a pilot in the video game Left 4 Dead 2, is likely a Cajun. Ray, the firefly in Disneys The Princess and the Frog, abby Sciuto, forensic scientist in the CBS prime-time adventure/crime series NCIS. Aloysius Pendergast, special agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Nick Gautier, character in Sherrilyn Kenyons Dark Hunter series and main protagonist in the Chronicles of Nick spinoff series. Leon Micheaux, Cajun jockey on the HBO drama Luck, raoul Gator Fontenot - Character in Christine Feehans GhostWalkers series, protagonist in the book Night Game
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Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
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List of Tibetan Americans
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Tibetan Americans are Americans of Tibetan ancestry. The history of Tibetans in the United States is relatively short, ethnic Tibetans began to immigrate to the United States in the late 1950s. Section 134 of the Immigration Act of 1990 gave a boost to the Tibetan immigration to the USA, by providing 1000 immigrant visas to Tibetans living in India and Nepal. Chain migration followed, and by 1998 the Tibetan-American population had grown to around 5,500, the 2000 United States Census counted 5,147 US residents who reported Tibetan ancestry. An estimate of ca.7,000 was made in 2001, the migration of the Tibetans to the United States took on the pattern of 22 cluster groups, located primarily in the Northeast, the Great Lakes region, and the Intermountain West. Other communities include Austin, Texas and Charlottesville, Virginia, Tibetan Americans who are born in Tibet or elsewhere in China are officially recognized as Chinese nationals. Communities of Tibetan Americans in the Northeast exist in Boston and Amherst, Massachusetts, Ithaca, New York, and New York City, in New York and New Jersey, they live primarily in Queens and New Brunswick. In the Mid-Atlantic region, the largest communities can be found in Northern Virginia, montgomery County, Maryland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Charlottesville, Virginia. Communities of Tibetan Americans in the Great Lakes region exist in Chicago and in the states of Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, there is a Tibetan Mongol Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana near the campus of Indiana University. The late brother of the Dalai Lama was a professor at the university, Minnesota has the second largest concentration of Tibetan Americans in the United States. Every year, Seattle holds an annual Tibet Festival in August, although quite small in number overall, Colorado has one of the highest concentrations of Tibetans in North America, focused on Boulder, Colorado Springs, Douglas County and Crestone. The state sports a Buddhist university, the Naropa University, a Buddhist commune west of Castle Rock, Colorado Springs alone has three Tibetan stores and a restaurant. Much of the reason behind this rather peculiar demographic is that Tibetan guerillas were secretly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency at Camp Hale outside of Leadville. Camp Hale was used as a camp for expatriate Tibetans to be inserted to foment uprising in Tibet after the region was retaken by the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. From 1958 to 1960, Anthony Poshepny trained various special missions teams, including Tibetan Khambas and Hui Muslims, Poshepny sometimes claimed that he personally escorted the 14th Dalai Lama out of Tibet, but sources in the Tibetan exile deny this. The site was chosen because of the similarities of the Rocky Mountains in the area with the Himalayan Plateau and this was a contemporary plan of the CIA to the one that trained dissident Cubans in what later became the Bay of Pigs incident. The CIA parachuted four groups of Camp Hale trainees inside Tibet between 1959 and 1960 to contact the resistance groups. But the missions resulted in the massacre of all but a few of the team members,1948 Telopa Rinpoche is hired by Johns Hopkins University to teach Tibetan Buddhism
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On the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana
