Comments for Far Outliers http://faroutliers.wordpress.com Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times Wed, 15 May 2013 03:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Ngatik Massacre, July 1837 by Wayner M. Louis http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2004/06/29/the-ngatik-massacre-july-1837/#comment-6325 Wed, 15 May 2013 03:40:17 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2004/06/29/the-ngatik-massacre-july-1837/#comment-6325 Yes. That is the same thing I heard form the elderly people of Nagtik, that there were three young boys that were safed by running away and hide. After all is settled down, one of the three young boys became the first local Nahnmwarki ( Paramount ) Chief of the island.

]]> Comment on Earliest Filipino Immigrants to North America by Rhonda Lee Richoux http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/earliest-filipino-immigrants-to-north-america/#comment-6313 Tue, 07 May 2013 04:39:26 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/earliest-filipino-immigrants-to-north-america/#comment-6313 i am a descendant of Felipe Madriaga of Ilocos Norte, who settled in Louisiana around 1846. He told my great grandmother stories of St. Malo, and said that it had existed at least 50 years prior to his knowledge of it. Felipe fished out of St. Malo as well as the Bayou Bienvenue fishing village, and when Manila Village was established in 1895, the family fished out of there. Manila Village was a place where families could visit and feel welcome. Manila Village was still around when my mother was young, and she has memories of Manila Village and Camp Dewey, just around the bend in Plaquemines Parish. The Filipinos of St. Malo did indeed have a hand in the War of 1812; when, in 1815, the British came looking for the Americans, the Manilamen showed them the way.

So many of our family photos and documents were ruined in Hurricane Katrina that sadly, all we have left is oral history. I am in contact with relatives who are going to send me some of their old photos. Hopefully, I can fill in some of the blanks with those pictures.

I don’t know why so many people dispute the existence of Filipinos in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, in the 1700′s. It was the perfect place for them. Spain had populated the place with Islenos from the Canary Islands, and the Spanish speaking Filipinos would have fit in well with them. Our local historians know of St. Malo and the Filipinos there and at Bienvenue. I have a census from 1860 with my family at Bienvenue.

Filipino American history is fascinating to me. The people of New Orleans considered Filipinos as white, and by my generation we had panned out from the French Quarter into The Marigny neighborhood, where there were Filipinos, Frenchmen, Italians, Chinese and African American families. We all got along and we all enjoyed our various ethnic clubs. It was a wonderful way to grow up.

Sorry for writing so much, but once I get started, it’s hard to stop. My genealogy page is at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/x/Rhonda-R-Fox/PDFBOOK1.pdf

Please feel free to read it. – Rhonda Lee Richoux

]]> Comment on Paducah’s Men in Quilts by AQS QuiltWeek™ — Paducah 2013 | pellonprojects http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/paducahs-men-in-quilts/#comment-6303 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:16:08 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/paducahs-men-in-quilts/#comment-6303 [...] [image from Far Outliers from Paducah's Men in Quilts] [...]

]]> Comment on Some Loanwords in Indonesian/Malay: A by Steve http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/some-loanwords-in-indonesianmalay-a/#comment-6302 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:53:33 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/?p=6292#comment-6302 And then there are the loanwords from Indonesian/Malay in English and Afrikaans – ketchup, blatjang, piesang etc.

]]> Comment on The 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiments in the Pacific War by Eddie K. http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6301 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:36:49 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6301 Eddie K.

13 November 2012 at 4:17 pm

When will the next reunion be and where in 2013? I’m looking for Andy Cablar Larrigan 1st Fil Inf. Reg. October of 1942. Just started family history and found my father service with them. EKL

Sorry I can’t help you. As you can see I placed this back in November 2012 and I haven’t had any kind of response. Sadly to say!

]]> Comment on The 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiments in the Pacific War by Ramon Marzan http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6300 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:29:30 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6300 My Name is Ramon Marzan my father served in the US Army 967th AntiAirCraft Artillery Gun Bn. Between 3Sep42 – 12Oct46. He was a cook in that unit. Asian pacific theatre.

]]> Comment on The 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiments in the Pacific War by Ramon Marzan http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6299 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:15:38 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-1st-and-2nd-filipino-regiments-in-the-pacific-war/#comment-6299 Looking for filipinos in the 967th antiair craft artillery gun bn. WW2

]]> Comment on Wordcatcher Tales: Kamaboko heisha by The Postwar Quonset Era | Far Outliers http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/wordcatcher-tales-kamaboko-heisha/#comment-6297 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:22:29 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/?p=4594#comment-6297 [...] Quonset form [called kamaboko-gata in Japanese] rippled throughout postwar visual culture. It no longer needed explaining; it had [...]

]]> Comment on Naipaul on Schweitzer in Gabon by Patti Marxsen http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/naipaul-on-schweitzer-in-gabon/#comment-6296 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:43:05 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/?p=5191#comment-6296 Naipaul is wrong. Albert & Helene Schweitzer arrived in French Equatorial Africa on April 16, 1913. I have read his account of his brief visit to Lambarene… like many other brief visits it is an exercise in ignorance. I would have expected more from a Nobel Laureate.

]]> Comment on Black Immigrant Model Minorities by kenneth http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/black-immigrant-model-minorities/#comment-6295 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:17:58 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/black-immigrant-model-minorities/#comment-6295 Those africans who came from a shithole dont go to another shithole. then Study besides its the same stats in UK explain that now and scotland no afirmative action there and the are not the cream of the top.Rich elite already educated people like and myself my mates friends stay in africa like the rich in europe stay in europethey only go out for holidays or business. people need to stop making excuse besides it showed in BBC news my work mates werent suprised besides whites africans dont even make 3 milion in any african country only as a whole.3 milion which is the number of african immigrants by the way but whites in nigeria are a minority so small its not even registered roughly about 200-300 and nigerians are the majority of african immigrants so they are obviosly black do the math what are peoples excuses now!I covered everything!

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