EARLY 1900s and IMMIGRATION

1. Immigration and Ethnicity

Immigration

More on Immigration

Norwegian-American Historical Association

Sons of Norway

Germans from Russia

and:

Germans from Russia

"Invisible" groups:

African-American (Era Bell Thompson)

Jewish (Rachel Calof)

Islamic (Lebanese)

2. Commparison to Modern Immigration

   Hispanic/Mexican migrant workers since the 1940s (long term history in N.D. communities)

Southeast Asian (Hmong in Twin Cities, Vietnamese in Fargo)

Bosnians

Sudanese

See also:

        Raaen, Aagot.  Grass of the Earth: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant Family in Dakota.  Minnesota Historical    

            Society Press, 1994.

Rikoon, J. Sanford, ed. Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains.  Indiana University Press, 1995.