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No he was not a one of the minority groups. (I guess your referring to muslim?) He was a Catholic and Chavacano. Was a soldier, and knew many of the traditional dances like the singkil, and also did a dance that had a shield with little bells, where he would squat very low, and tap the shield with a bolo, while using square pattern footwork.
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This looks like a Lumad dance (could be wrong), actually different non muslim minority groups are living in the highlands of Mindanao. There are also sea dwellers (the Badjaos or sea gypsies) in the Sulu sea. Some of these peoples kept their martial traditions but unfortunately they are losing their culture...
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He loved boxing, and cockfighting. He immigrated to the big island of Hawaii (Kona side) in I believe around the 60's, though I will check again.
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haha, this is very filipino, i wonder if there are also cockpits there... I heard many filipinos went to Hawai, did some filipino-polynesian martial arts emerge there?
All the best.