Kabul on August 15, where the Taliban replaced the former Afghan government with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The group Afghan Community Houston held protests denouncing the Taliban takeover. Between the Fall of Kabul and August 18, 100 Afghans moved to Houston from Fort Lee. On August 19 the group The Alliance stated on August 19 that it planned to move 70 Afghan refugees to Houston later that month. Ukrainians The Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston is active in the city. After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a former president of the organization Iryna Petrovska Marchiano, arranged to have a mural created to show support for Ukraine. There is a pan-Slavic shop called the General Store. It was known as the Russian General Store until 2022, and changed its name in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. American Indians tribes represented included Alabama Coushatta, Choctaw, Comanche, Cherokee, Lipan Apache, Muskogee Creek, Navajo, Ponca, and Tunica Biloxi ethnic groups, with about 68,000 Native Americans in the area as of 2010. The American Indian Genocide Museum is in Houston. There was a Native American museum, Southern Apache Museum, that opened in 2012 in Northwest Mall. It closed in 2017 due to redevelopment. Area Native Americans opposed the statue of Christopher Columbus in Bell Park until its 2020 removal. Ethnoreligious groups Jews Jews were part of the great waves of immigration from eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coming especially from the Russian Empire, that than included Poland and Ukraine. Most entered through the Port of Galveston. Jewish aid societies encouraged immigrants to settle in the South, as the northeastern cities were absorbing so many from Europe. By around 1987 about 42,000 Jews lived in Greater Houston. In 2008 Irving N. Rothman, author of The Barber in Modern Jewish Culture: A Genre of People, Places, and Things, with Illustrations, wrote that Houston "has a scattered Jewish populace and not a large enough population of Jews to dominate any single neighborhood." He wrote that the city's "hub of Jewish life" is the Meyerland community. Copts Christian Egyptians and some North Africans have historically belonged to the Coptic Orthodox Church. A sufficient number of immigrants from these areas have settled in Houston since the late 20th century to establish churches and the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States. As of 2004, there were three Coptic Orthodox