The Filipinos once populated Texas and the Filipinos is the Hasinai Indian Tribe. Texas was called the New Philippines and it was suppose to be a province or state for the Filipinos.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/j...050112opi4.html

Well the US got New Mexico

Huh, that's cool. Well I do live in Texas. Although I doubt George W. would be Filipino because he's from Connecticut.

mutiny

That's cool. But why did they change it to Texas?

I think New Philippines was renamed to "Tejas" Spanish for Hasinai the people of Texas when it was handed over to the United States.

Most Hasinai indians were not probably pure filipinos because there were only male filipinos in the New Philippines who intermarried with the native american indian women.

So is there still a huge population of Filipinos in Texas? What happened?
Wow, i've never about this before...interesting

I think only the Filipino blood lingers in the people of Texas and it is so diluted in their veins to be noticable today.

So many Texans have Filipino blood in them?

I lived in Texas for about nineteen years until I relocated to New York a year ago. The city I lived in (Dallas) didn't have a huge Filipino population by any means. If I ran into another Filipino, I'd nearly do cartwheels because they were few and far between.

my sister lives in san antonio

Yeah? From what she's told you, are there a lot of flips in that city?

This is what other say about this http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online...es/NN/usn1.html

Also, theres this: http://www.raremaps.com/maptrade/feb00/msg00039.html


The word, Texas, or Tejas, was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies. .

wow, I never heard of this!!

very interesting ... i don't see too many filipinos around either.

thnx for the info!!!

So the brokeback guy, Ennis del Mar may possibly have Filipino blood? And so does George Bush--->no wonder why he always have this fetish thing for Filipinos and Gloria Arroyo...*lolz*

I've heard and read about Filipinos settling in Louisiana while it was under French rule, but Texas being groomed as the New Philippines is new to me.

isnt Lil' Flip from Texas?

i heard that too..i also heard that they new orleans filipinos kept their culture and heritage in tact by not marrying outside their race..that would be interesting if it true..i hope there is no incest tho lol

The Saint Malo, Louisiana settlement was established in 1763 by Filipinos who deserted from Spanish ships during the Manila Galleon Trade. Reasons for their desertion from the ships varied; however their desire to escape the Spanish brutalities is generally regarded as the main reason. They settled in the marshlands of Louisiana where no Spaniards could reach them. The people who settled in the bayous were called Manilamen and later on as Tagalas. They governed themselves and kept their existence a secret from mainstream society for over a hundred years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malo,_Louisiana

Yeah, I think he's from Houston.

maybe thats how he got his name