Source: INDIA WEST
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, April 29, 2002: An exhibit celebrating East Indian-Mexican heritage will open in Sacramento this summer, reports India-West. In the early 1900s, many laborers and farmers from Punjab settled in the United States and, in the absence of Indian women, married women from Mexico. Approximately 50 Mexican-Hindu families remain in Yuba City, all apparently Catholics. “Once we’re gone, we’re gone,” said Isabel Singh Garcia, a Mexican-Hindu from Yuba City. “Our race will be a dead race.” An exhibit featuring the families that came from Sikh-Mexican marriages in Yuba City, the Imperial Valley, Fresno and other cities in California will be on display on the second floor of the Rotunda in the State Capitol building during July. A large Sikh community which came from India at the same time maintained its identity and religion.