'Just be quiet:' Film shares untold history of Indipino community in Bainbridge Island
An executive producer of a Bainbridge-made documentary, Gina Corpuz is also the daughter of an aboriginal woman who survived an Indian residential school in Canada.
Corpuz's mother, Evelyn Williams, was taken to St. Paul's Indian Residential School in North Vancouver at age 5.
In the early 1940s, Williams and other 35 indigenous women from 19 different tribes in Canada, Washington and Alaska migrated to Bainbridge Island.
They worked for Japanese American farmers to pick strawberries.
Some of the women fell in love and married Filipino immigrants who also worked at the strawberry farm. They raised over 150 children who now identify themselves as "Indipinos" on Bainbridge Island.
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