NOT NATIVES?
From
The Filipino Patriots
By RayMax
The Macabebes, were never native to the Philippines.
Their ancestors were Yaqui Indians brought in over from Mexico. They were a large portion of the Spanish garrison force before South America gained Independence from Spain.
The Spanish loved them and gave them land in Pampanga where they intermarried with the natives who also hated the Tagalogs. Because of their close ties to Spain, the Tagalogs hated them, but you can't consider them traitors if they were never really Filipinos in the first place.
Second they joined the US forces for monetary compensation and revenge to Aguinaldo's order to Massacre their families in the town of Macabebe in 1899.
Read more
http://katonynabanlawkasaysayan.blogspot.com/2013/02/macabebe-pampanga-and-macabebe-scouts.html?m=1
https://pinoyhistory.proboards.com/thread/680/macabebes
http://www.viatimes.net/nov2020issue/?p=100