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Following Reynaldo Ileto’s work, San Buenaventura examines the Filipino Federation of America, popularly known as Moncadista, as a social movement in Hawaii. Camilo Moncada, a charismatic Filipino leader in Hawaii, led a popular movement drawing inspiration from the life of Jesus Christ. Based on San Buenaventura’s doctoral dissertation.
Nativism and Ethnicity in a Filipino-American Experience. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hawaii, 1990.
Michael Cullinane, University of Wisconsin
In 1914, at 15 years of age, Hilario Camino Moncado (1898-1956) joined many other Cebuano youths as labor migrants to the sugar and pineapple fields of Hawaii. He died 42 years later as the wealthy head of several overlapping Filipino organizations operating in the U.S. and the Philippines, in particular the Filipino Federation of America and the Filipino Crusaders World Army. To many of his followers (some 20,000 alleged members by 1950), he was "the master," a prophet with supernatural powers and their representative to the outside world. In the late 1930s, Moncado also moved widely and with some success through the American and Philippine political arenas, managing to get himself elected to the Commonwealth's Constitutional Convention in 1934. To his detractors, Moncado was little more than a charlatan, a clever confidence man who devised an efficient system to extract money and support from his docile following. This paper will explore the life of Moncado, his complex relationships with his followers and competitors, and the context of his remarkable career.
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Moncado Colony (Moncado, Cadingilan). Named in honor of Hilario Camino Moncado, a native Filipino, leader, an organizer, author of books and lecturer of humanities. He graduated with honor at the age of nine at India Collage of Mystery and Psychics. Moncado monuments and wild animals monuments can be found here.
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Hilario Camino Moncado, "100% cooperation with the United States: Reprinted from an address made by Doctor Hilario C. Moncado ... [at] Honolulu, June 7, 1941 ... and broadcast over the ... radio station KGBM", 1941.
ISBN: B0007HEJZI
Other subject areas related to 100% cooperation with the United States: Reprinted from an address made by Doctor Hilario C. Moncado ... [at] Honolulu, June 7, 1941 ... and broadcast over the ... radio station KGBM (possibly beyond the scope of this Communications Systems Glossary) include: 1935-1946, Philippines, Politics and government.
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The Dessert House
Auguste R. Marquis Residence/Filipino Federation of
America
2302 West 25th Street
Year Built: 1904
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 602
You may recognize this unusual Gothic-Eastlake-Queen Anne-Moorish mansion as the morbid Fisher family home/mortuary on the hit HBO show Six Feet Under. But this eclectic Victorian residence is actually a historic landmark erected a century ago by Auguste Rodolphe Marquis, a Swiss immigrant who made a fortune in mining interests. Marquis was an officer of the Johnnie Consolidated Gold Mining Company, which promoted prospecting in the Death Valley town of Johnny.
Today the Marquis residence is home to the Filipino Federation of America. The Federation's founder, General Hilario Moncado, first purchased the Victorian house across the street in 1926, and then this mansion after World War II. General Moncado was an attorney and an avid golfer who was viewed as a saint by some Filipino emigres and a sinner by others. Moncado founded the Filipino Federation in 1925, crusading against such vices as gambling and dance halls that catered to the growing Filipino-American population. He traveled regularly between the Philippines and the U.S. But in 1941, after campaigning unsuccessfully for the Republic's president, Moncado and his opera singer wife, Donna Toy Castro, were not allowed to return to the States. He was arrested several times during the war years, and did not return to the U.S. until after the war's end.
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The Filipino Federation of America (FFA) was formed on December 27, 1925 in Los Angeles by Camino Moncada, a Cebuano who worked for a while on a sugar plantation in Kauai before he moved to the West Coast. The members of the Federation included thousands of Filipino sakadas in Hawaii and former sakadas who have moved to California. According to Steffi San Buenaventura, the FFA was a mutual aid society as well as a "quasi-religious" organization with strong mystical symbolism that was derived from Filipino folk beliefs and practices. The FFA members, more popularly known as Moncadistas, numbered to about 800 in the 1930s, although the Federation records claimed as many as 11,000.
The spiritual beliefs of the FFA centered on Moncada, the political leader as well as the spiritual master. His followers believed that he was the Filipino "brown Christ", the savior who when the time came would deliver his followers into paradise. The Moncadistas underwent spiritual initiation such as reciting prayers to obtain power and protection from all dangers and temptations. As part of their purification, they underwent sacrifices or sacripisyo such as fasting, abstinence, and trekking to the mountains purposely to cleanse their inner being. These indigenous rituals of the Moncadistas were ways in which they responded to the challenges and problems of surviving and adapting to a foreign land.