Sakadas

{{Short description|Migrant farm workers from the Philippines}} {{For|the ancient Greek musician|Sakadas of Argos}} {{Redirect|Sakada|the 1976 film|Sakada (film)|the 2005 album|Sakada (Midnight album)}} thumb|Display area containing the NHCP historical marker for the Filipino Sakadas and a sculpture representing them. '''Sakadas''' ({{langx|es|sacadas}}; {{langx|krj|manga sakada}}; {{langx|ilo|dagiti sakada}}; {{langx|hil|mga sakada}}; roughly "imported ones") is a term for migrant workers in and from the Philippines, doing manual agricultural labor. Within the Philippines, sakadas work in provinces other than their own. In the 20th century, Filipino men were imported by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to Hawaii as "skilled laborers" from 1906 to 1946 mainly from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filam.si.edu/curriculum/u3-part-03.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-10-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113043954/http://filam.si.edu/curriculum/u3-part-03.html |archivedate=2011-01-13 }} A Century of Challenge and Change: The Filipino American Story, Unit 3 - Brown America</ref>

== History == The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association approved a plan to recruit labor from the Philippines in April 1906 and asked Albert F. Judd to represent them.<ref>The Filipinos in Hawaii: the first 75 years, 1906-1981 : a commemorative book. Honolulu</ref> The first Filipino farm laborers in Hawaii arrived on December 20, 1906 from Candon, Ilocos Sur, aboard the {{ship|SS|Doric|1883}}.<ref>{{cite archive |item =75th anniversary |type =brochure |publisher =Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii |last=Dioniso |first=Juan |date 1981 |collection =National Pinoy Archive |institution =Filipino American National Historical Society |location=Seattle, Washington }}</ref>

== See also == *{{langx|es|Hacienda|label=none}} *History of Filipino Americans *''Manong'' generation *{{langx|es|Negrense|label=none}} *Nicholas Loney

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * {{cite book |author=Alcantara, Ruben R. |title=Sakada: Filipino adaptation in Hawaii |publisher=University Press of America |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1981 |isbn=0-8191-1579-7 }} * {{cite book |author=Alcantara, Ruben R. |title=The Filipinos in Hawaii: an annotated bibliography |publisher=Social Sciences and Linguistic Institute, University of Hawaii |location=Honolulu |year=1977|isbn=0-8248-0612-3 }} * {{cite book |author=Cariaga, Roman R. |title=The Filipinos in Hawaii: economic and social conditions 1906-1936 |publisher=Filipino Public Relations Bureau |location=Honolulu |year=1937 }} * {{cite book |author= Hawaii Filipino News Specialty Publications |title=The Filipinos in Hawaii: the first 75 years, 1906-1981 : a commemorative book |publisher=Hawaii Filipino News Specialty Publications |location=Honolulu |year=1981|isbn=0-9606336-0-X }}

== External links == * [http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/17651 Filipino History in Hawaii before 1946: The Sakada Years of Filipinos in Hawaii] * [http://hdl.handle.net/10125/15383 The Filipino Century Beyond Hawaii: A report] * [http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/fil-labor/ Filipino Workers in Hawaii, 1926] Photographs in Connection with the Investigation of Working Conditions of Filipino Laborers on Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, 1926

Category:History of Antique (province) Category:History of Ilocos Sur Category:History of Negros Occidental Category:History of Negros Oriental Category:Filipino-American history Category:Filipino-American culture in Hawaii Category:Sugar industry in Hawaii