This Day in History: 2017-09-29

September 21, 2004 – “National Museum of the American Indian Opens”“The National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington, D.C. It contains one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of Native American artificats and history. The museum actually has three facilities – one in D.C., another in New York City and a third in Suitland, Maryland. The foundations for the present collection were first established at the Museum of the American Indian in New York City, which has been open since 1916.”

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2017 April 12, 1847 - "First Asians Arrive in the United States" - A group of three Chinese students arrived in New York City and became the first Asians to officially enter the United States. However, Chinese records show that Chinese Buddhist priests traveled along the West Coast and present-day British Columbia down to Baja California in 450 A.D. Also, Spanish records show the existence of Chinese shipbuilders in present-day Southern California between 1541 and 1746 and Chinese shopkeepers were already in present-day Los Angeles when the first Anglo Americans arrived. Though conventionally thought to have played a pivotal role in American history only from the 19th century forward, Asians have been in what's now considered the U.S. longer than Europeans."

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