Asian-Native American Riots of 1906

Background
For the past couple of decades the Asian and Native Population has been badly mistreated in Western Canada and has called for reform. Many of their local businesses only receive customers who are Asian and even so the Anglo-Saxon population has tried to limit people from going into residential areas and Asian owned businesses. This caused uproar among the population in-which the Asians began a peaceful protest in Pioneer Square, Seattle.

Riots
Sadly the Whites caught note of this and more extreme groups began planting bombs near the protest and when they went off it killed women and children. After the bombings they had decided they had enough of this and started an open revolt against the Government and stormed town hall and took one of the leaders of the extremist groups and the Mayor of Seattle captive for 14 days. Police and local authorities were called as a siege occurred in the Town Hall but it was stopped as the Asians threatened to kill the hostages which caused police to back down. The siege later broke when the Mayor lied to their demands and escaped in-which in police stormed the Town Hall and over 25 Asians were killed and over 50 were arrested. Another similar riot occurred near Tacoma where they seized the Police station but later surrendered a couple days later.

Conclusion After the riots further Anti-Asian discrimination continued and still happens today in Canada. The Riots caused Asians to keep to themselves and a banned immigration law from Asian happened in the 1920’s and many Asians would join the labour party and after the riots many Asian businesses shut down or were destroyed or damaged.