The Igorot struggle for independence: William Henry Scott.

Spanish heads shown to German scientist Alexander Schadenberg.
Or, for that matter, the Spanish jawbones still decorating heirloom
gangsas in more remote parts of the mountain provinces even today.
Meanwhile, during those three centuries when Spanish
firearms never really conquered the lofty liberty of the Igorots,
they were paying a heavy price for their independence. Moving off
into more remote parts of the Cordillera, they had to pit their
brawn and brains against raw nature and sterile soil. And while
they learned to carve whole mountainsides into terraces to wring (
out a bare subsistence of living, their tribute-paying brethren in
the lolods yere learning to farm like Spaniards and cook like
Chinese. WhMe Graciano Lopez Jaena was ornamenting the Spanish
press with his graceful prose, and Jose Rizal was hobnobbing with
European scholars in a half dozen foreign languages, their illiterate
Igorot compatriots were being exhibited in the Philippine Exposition along with the other native plants and animals. In their
mountain province independence, the Igorots missed out on, all
those convenient innovations enjoyed by their conquered brethrenthe iron plows, the horses and cows, the pancit and pan-de-sal, the
camisas de chino and barongs tagalog, the grade school primers
and those prestigious blue eyes and curly, blond hair. It was a heavy
price to pay for liberty. And it is a price not yet fully paid. For even
their descendants who are congressmen, professors or bishops must
send their children to government schools where they dutifully
stare at textbooks which say they are different from'all other Filipinos because their ancestors came in the wrong wave of migration.
But never a word about their 350-year resistance to foreign
aggression.

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