In 2020, PBS aired a 5-series documentary titled “Asian American” featuring scholars addressing the history of Asians in the United States. The series started with a conversation with Mia Abeya, the granddaughter of Cabrera Antero, one of the 1100 individuals from the Philippines who were shipped to the St. Louis World’s Fair for display in 1904, as she explained her grandfather's story and the history of Igorot peoples in the Philippines and in the United States. This plenary brings Manang Mia in discussion with three Igorot American scholars and students addressing the complex relationships between indigeneity and national identity, cultures and story-telling in diaspora, and how Igorots, both in the Philippines and in diaspora, navigate “Filipinoness” at an age of hyperdigital presence and community pushback against the perpetual view of Igorots, Moros, and other Indigenous Peoples as atemporal and aspatial communities. The epistemological changes in addressing indigeneity, ethnic and religious minorities, and the critique of the nation-building project that occurs, even within Ethnic Studies, are being challenged by those who are seen as "minorities" in the "homeland" and invisible in diaspora.