Filipino Americans: Pioneers To The Present by Concordia R. Borja - Mamaril and Tyrone Lim
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Filipino Americans: Pioneers to the Present gives local families and Oregon’s general public a clear look back at the circumstances of Filipino pioneers arriving in early Oregon. Some of these snapshots startle, like scantily clad Bontoc Igorot brought along with their grass huts and tom-toms to live in "native villages" featured in the 1905 Centennial Lewis & Clark Exhibition, held in Northwest Portland. Other pictures affirm Pinoy pioneers’ persistence, like the old photos of smiling cherry pickers, exhausted salmon packers, determined loggers, and railroad workers. Still others warm the heart, like Sam Ceballos, Sr. and daughter Lorita sitting in a round metal tub in the front yard of their Vernonia sawmill camp house — or like the one of a younger, nattier Jaime J. Lim (a self-employed engineer and publisher of The Asian Reporter), sleeves rolled high in U.S. Coast Guard seaman blues.
Many of the accounts verify the success of Oregon Filipinos, like the Philippines 2000 cover photo of Philippines President Fidel Ramos receiving Oregon Asian Affairs Commissioner Angie Collas-Dean. Commissioner Collas-Dean of Eugene chaired the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon delegation to Manila in October 1997.
Filipino Americans: Pioneers to the Present is both a concise scholarly and generous human account of about one hundred years of toil and trouble and sweet success. Above all, Concordia Borja-Mamaril and Tyrone Lim, working at an apex of hundreds of helping hands and thousands of volunteer hours, provide a necessary testament to one immigrant community’s contribution to America’s broad-shouldered mainstream.
Publisher : Filipino American National Historical Society, Oregon Chapter (January 1, 2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 332 pages
ISBN-10 : 0967966701
ISBN-13 : 978-0967966700
Item Weight : 2 pounds
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