Filipino Americans

St. Malo, Louisiana, Site of Earliest Filipino-American Settlement, Threatened by Climate Change

More than a century ago, long before the Civil War, St. Malo was the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Preserving the settlement's history is now a race against time. 

The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana’s Centuries-Old History

“Filipinos in Louisiana are always being ‘discovered,’ says Randy Gonzalez. Someone will write an article, ‘I bet you didn’t know there were Filipinos in Louisiana!’ Ten years later, someone will write the same article. I wish that would stop one day.”