Demographic Profile In 1830 the population of Indianapolis was 1,900 and grew at a long-term rate equal to 5.8 percent per year… Read More »Demographic Profile
Dutch The Dutch community in Indianapolis, a mixed lot culturally and religiously, never totaled more than 500 persons. The first Dutch… Read More »Dutch
English Though the English were among the earliest immigrants to arrive in Indianapolis, they never formed a very large proportion of… Read More »English
Feistikji Family In the early 1920s John (ca. 1866-Jan. 25, 1949) and Mary (ca. 1875-Apr. 18, 1948) Feistikji, who were Armenian Roman… Read More »Feistikji Family
Festivals Like most large cities, Indianapolis has a sizeable number of annual festivals focused on the arts and culture, food, sports,… Read More »Festivals
Filipinos Although Filipinos were considered U.S. nationals following the annexation of the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War of 1898, the… Read More »Filipinos
Freethought Freethought aims to approach all matters objectively and rationally, although this definition oversimplifies. Principally antireligious, thus its atheistic and humanistic… Read More »Freethought
Germans People with ancestral ties to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and other German-speaking provinces of central and eastern Europe constitute… Read More »Germans
Germans in Politics Although had been in Indianapolis since at least the 1840s, their political influence did not become significant until the mid-1850s.… Read More »Germans in Politics
Golden Hill Totem Pole of Indianapolis In the fall of 1903, Hoosier native and then-governor of the Alaska Territory John Brady sailed on the U.S. Revenue… Read More »Golden Hill Totem Pole of Indianapolis
