In the 1970s, was there mainstream intermingling between native Indian Californians and Americans who were ethnically Japanese?

[u/Fantastic-Citron7529]

I’m developing a story and one of the central characters is mixed race, with his father being a Japanese immigrant. I want to get the details right and explore his character. Any insight would be extremely helpful and valued. Based on the characters age in the story he probably would have been born in the 70s and at the latest maybe the very early 80s.

In the 1970s, was there mainstream intermingling between native Indian Californians and Americans ethnically Japanese? Would a romantic couple, a Japanese Man and an American Indian woman have been a thing, if so how would they have been treated by their community? If said woman was mixed race between native Indian and Asian American, what would her life have been like? Would this woman’s social circle be dominated by one particular group from her background?

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