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  • Woolgoolga, Australia | 2011<br />
Sikhs gather for a wedding at the Guru Nanak Temple. Woolgoolga is home to the largest Sikh community in Australia, many of whom are banana growers. Sikhs took up banana farming in Australia in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugar cane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia: Banana grower John Arkan is an elected member of the Coffs Harbor City Council. His grandfather came to this region on the mid-north coast of New South Wales in 1895. Sikhs took up banana farming in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugarcane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Manhattan: New Yorkers gather in Union Square for a vigil in support of the victims of the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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  • Hollywood, California: An animated Sikh character invites passersby to enter the Guinness Book of World Records Museum
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  • Fremont, California | 2014<br />
Sikhs celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, at the Fremont Gurdwara.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
A military honor guard presents Sukwinder Kaur with the American flag that had draped the coffin of her son. Parminder Singh Shergill, 43, who served in the US Army during the first Gulf War and struggled with mental illness, was shot by police near his home. Officers responding to a 911 call claimed he lunged at them with a knife. Witnesses disputed the police account. An investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Shergill was buried with military honors.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
Mourners attend the flag-draped coffin of Parminder Singh Shergill, a US Army veteran of the first Gulf War who was shot by police near his home.
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  • Sacramento, California | 2014<br />
Sukhdeep Singh, a member of bhangra troupe Ankhiley Gabroo, performs during halftime for Sikh Appreciation Night at the Sacramento Kings basketball game. Greater Sacramento is home to a large Sikh community that traces its roots to laborers who worked on farms in the Central Valley in the 1920s.
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  • Sacramento, California: Dance troupe Majajana gets ready back stage before performing during halftime for Sikh Appreciation Night at the Sacramento Kings game, as part of the NBA franchise's outreach to its local community and the global Indian diaspora.
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  • Yuba City, California | 2104<br />
Karm Bains is a fourth-generation California farmer, who grows peaches, prunes, walnuts, and almonds. His father, Didar Singh Bains, worked on California farms as a day laborer, saving most of his meager wages and buying land on his way to becoming one of the biggest peach growers in the nation. Sikhs from Punjab first arrived in the early 20th century to work on railroads, sawmills, and in agriculture in Canada. Many settled farther south in California, working first as laborers and then buying and developing land. Today the northern Central Valley is home to a Sikh community that has expanded beyond agriculture and into other forms of business, politics, philanthropy, and the arts.
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  • Abbotsford, Canada: Sikh women form the core of the blueberry-picking and production labor force in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver.
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  • Abbotsford, Canada | 2012<br />
Sikh women form the core of the blueberry-picking labor force in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver. Often elderly and living in the isolation of suburbia, many look forward to the picking season as an opportunity to spend time with their peers and earn money for their families.
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  • Brighton, United Kingdom | 2010<br />
Begun in 1787 and completed in 1823, the Royal Pavilion was the seaside residence for monarchs George IV, William IV, and Victoria. During World War I, it was converted into a military hospital for Indian soldiers wounded while fighting for the British Empire. Separate medical facilities within the structure were provided to accommodate the differing caste and religious sensibilities of Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim soldiers. Today the building and grounds serve as a museum.
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  • Vancouver, Canada: Men admire the newly installed memorial to the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs from Punjab who sailed from Hong Kong to Canada in 1914 and were not allowed to land. The vessel waited in the harbor for two months while conditions aboard detoriated before being forced out to sea by the British navy. In the end, only 20 passengers were admitted to Canada, since the ship had violated the exclusion laws, designed to limit immigration from Asia.
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