Filipino Cannery Workers – MMT20020_FilipinoCanneryWorkersAK_1937_UnivOfWashington.jpg
A 1937 image of Filipino cannery workers by Alitak cannery near Akhiok, Alaska captures faces of the manong generation.
The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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