Conventionally taught American Timeline:
2012: Ami Bera from California becomes the first Indian American member of the House of Representatives. Currently, Bera is also the co-chair of the House India Caucus, which focuses on the relationship between India and the U.S.
2007: Bobby Jindal becomes the governor of Louisiana, the first Indian American governor in the U.S.
1982: Vinod Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems, which pioneered new computing methods, such as Unix and thin client computing, that laid the foundation for today’s computers.
1965: President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The law revokes the previous immigration quotas set for India and other countries.
1923: In United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, the Supreme Court ruled that Indians may not attain citizenship. Thind applied for citizenship three times, and had his citizenship revoked twice before finally becoming a citizen in 1936.
1914: Dhan Gopal Mukerji is the first Indian American to win a Newbery Medal for his fiction. A poet and fiction writer, Mukerji composed his works in English and achieved widespread recognition for his children’s book Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon.
1899–1914: Indians began migrating to California to work at lumber mills or on railways. Most of these Indians are Sikh’s.
1790: The first Indian American trader was documented in the U.S. Indian traders exchanged items, such as linens and spices.
1635: The first Indian, Tony, was documented at Jamestown. Some Indians were imported as indentured servants or slaves to America and were documented as “East Indians” and “Asiatic Indians.”
Sarah Weinberg 