I'm pretty sure the English didn't consider them white, neither did Americans.
First two paragraphs:
Among one of the first recorded Indian in America was a mixed race girl born to an Indian father and an
Irish-American mother in 1680 in Maryland. Due to her Indian-American father being classified as "Negro", she was classified as a
mulatto and later sold into slavery.
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The earliest Indian immigrants into the United States were called "Hindoos" even though the majority of them were
Sikhs. Court clerks classified these early immigrants from the
Punjab region as being "white", "brown" or "black" based on their skin color for the purpose of marriage licenses. In addition to being
racialized by their color, they were also racialized as being "
foreigners".
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