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| | The Filipino Americans: Their History, Culture and Traditions |
 | | According to Thelma Buchholdt, author of Filipinos in Alaska: 1788-1958 (Aborigines Press, Copyright 1996), the first Filipino to step on Alaskan soil was a native of Zamboanga, Philippines, who arrived at the Cook Inlet, Alaska, on June 17, 1788, aboard the Iphigenia Nubiana. |
 | | Another Filipino, known again as a “Minilia (sic) man” who arrived aboard the Gustavus III in Alaska in 1789 and again in 1791 was identified as John Mando, according to the journal of John Bartlett of Boston, also a crew member of that ship. |
 | | The Filipinos started to immigrate to the Philippines in 1763 when Filipino seamen, later known as Manilamen, jumped ship off Acapulco, Mexico during the Galleon trade era and settled in the bayous of Louisiana. |
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