meruz: October is Filipino American History Month!! I recently learned that the first Filipinos in the New World were laborers on Spanish galleons that jumped ship and settled in Louisiana in the early 1800s, founding a series of mainly fishing villages.

meruz: October is Filipino American History Month!! I recently learned that the first Filipinos in the New World were laborers on Spanish galleons that jumped ship and settled in Louisiana in the early 1800s, founding a series of mainly fishing villages.

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