This is a genealogical research of Pilipino migration to
Hawaii.
This website honors the 2006 Centennial celebration of the first fifteen Pilipino sakadas (contract farm workers)
& their arrival at Honolulu harbor on December
20, 1906. My goal is to shine a light on the struggles & achievements of all Pilipinos who migrated to Hawaii before & after the original fifteen sakadas. Additionally,
I dedicate this website to my children and their extensive paternal sakada ohana. Their grandfather, son of a sakada was born
in Hawaii on August 10, 1919 and their grandmother’s
father was also a sakada.
The Song of the Traveller
Following
anxiously treacherous fortune,
Fortune
which even as he grasp at it flees;
Vain
though the hopes that his yearning is seeking,
Yet does
the pilgrim embark on the seas!
Ever
impelled by the invincible power,
Destined
to roam from the East to the West ;
Oft
he remembers the faces of loved ones,
Dreams
of the day when he, too, was at rest.
Chance
may assign him a tomb on the desert,
Grant
him a final asylum of peace;
Soon
by the world and his country forgotten,
God
rest his soul when his wandering cease!
Dr. Jose Rizal
(translated from Spanish by:
Arthur P. Ferguson)
Go! To the field to till the land,
For the labor of man sustains
Fam'ly, home and Motherland.
Hard the land may turn to be,
Scorching the rays of the sun above...
For the country, wife and children
All will be easy to our love.
Dr. Jose Rizal
in the long run we are pooling our knowledge together for a better understanding of man and his world; not to
deify man, but to make him human, that we may see our faults and virtues in him. That is the responsibility of literature
and the history of culture.
Carlos Bulosan
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