n 1954, Joe Munang was reported (by legendary newspaperman Meyer Berger) as being one of seven Dusuns from North Borneo living in the New York area, having come to the city after working on American ships in the Pacific during the Second World War. While he lived in Forest Hills, Joe ran a barbershop a few blocks from Columbia University, where he befriended, assisted, and taught a series of researchers before retiring to Sabah. Of the other Dusun New Yorkers at the time, Berger reported that one worked in a Brooklyn TV factory, another in a Manhattan cafeteria, three others upstate, and the last as a seaman who stayed in the city between trips.