Still, the story of these Filipino settlers is finally being recognised. Gonzales, a prominent researcher on the history of Filipinos in the US, authored the book Settling St. Malo: Poems from Filipino Louisiana, and has written many essays exploring the topic. In 2019, the Philippine-Louisiana Historical Society erected a marker to commemorate Saint Malo's history, and Gonzales wrote the text for the plaque. In 2012, the group erected another historical marker roughly 45 miles south in Barataria Bay to commemorate Manila Village, a later Filipino shrimp-drying village that lasted from the turn of the 19th Century until 1965 when Hurricane Betsy destroyed it.
