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CHAPTER 4: A Proud

Bernie’s father, Julian Reyes, was born in the Philippines in 1895, and left the Philippines by boat at the age of 17, arriving in the United States in 1912. Like many young Filipinos such as Sammy Santos, he had come to America to seek his fortune. He found work in the Alaska canneries.

He lived for a time in Seattle during the 1920s but left, traveling to Idaho and Montana to find work and eventually ended up in Inchelium, in Eastern Washington.

The town of Inchelium was a gathering place for the Colville and Lakes Indian tribes. The tribes had settled there after being forced to move after the white people had taken their lands in the Colville valley and in the northern half of what is now the Colville Reservation.