A Portal for the Dutch Eurasian Indo Community in the United States

Welcome to the UC Berkeley Amerindo Research Website!

In the early 1950s, tens of thousands of Dutch Eurasians with roots in the former East Indies, so-called “Indos,” immigrated to the United States. The term “Amerindo” refers to the Indo community in the United States.

This website seeks to provide information on the Amerindo identity. We particularly focus on Indo heritage and traditions that remain a part of everyday life in the United States.

Any person looking for information on the Indo community in the United States and/or planning to conduct research on this community is welcome to contact us. Our group will be happy to share our data with student writing their dissertations/monographs as well as individuals planning activities relating to the Indo community. Through our partnership with SARI, we are able to link our data on the Amerindo community within the global context of the Indo diaspora. We have also established a partnership with Indisch Historish.

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"I did not care that people wanted to call me ‘neither fish nor fowl,’ and wanted to label me, an Indo, either Indonesian or Dutch. For them I just had to choose between the two, right? Nevertheless, I stubbornly named the turtle as ‘neither fish nor fowl,’ and praised this animal as a unique, land-and-sea-lover who lives to very old ages, whose meat has an excellent taste, and who cuts through oceans from continent to continent. I said, ‘Just as I do not find the turtle inferior, although he is neither fish nor fowl, I do not think the Indo inferior. And that is the end of it!"
—Tjalie Robinson

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