The Igorot struggle for independence: William Henry Scott.

word mangayaw, is found as far away as the dialects of Mindanao
and was recorded by a first-generation Spanish conquistador in the
Visayas. When Juan de Salcedo drove the Chinese corsair Limahong
out of Lingayen in 1574, he found the bodies of Chinese who had
escaped and were killed by the local people and they were all headless. In fact, when Salcedo's own body was sent to Manila for burial
in the San Agustin Church after he died outside Vigan, the head
was missing. The native mountaineers of Panay who were also
unconquered by the Spaniards, to this day dig up their ancestors'
bones and bury them again after cleaning them just like the Ifugaos,
and just so Dr. de Morga said the Tagalogs kept their ancestors'
bones in the houses and worshipped them. The kind of earrings the
Ifugaos called ling-ling-o have been dug up out of 2,000-year-old
Filipino graves in Palawan. All over the Philippines, from Aparri
to Jolo, the Spaniards noticed that Filipinos considered a sneeze
unlucky at the beginning of a journey, and that they would turn
around and go home if a snake or lizard crossed their path, or if a
bird flew from one side to the other. A study by a U.P. professor
makes a list of supposedly Chinese words in Tagalog-but this
list includes a lot of words which. are common all over the
mountain provinces, like atang, bantay, kotkot, bosog, botyog,
and sowitik. Moreover, a recent study of vocabularies from
languages and dialects all over the archipelago by a Yale linguist,
indicates that Tagalog and Bontoc, for instance, have more basic
words in common than either of them does with any language outside the Philippines-like Borneo, for instance. It is hard to explain
this similarity if the Tagalogs came to the Philippines in a separate
wave of migration 2,000 years after the Bontocs were already settled
in the mountains of the Grand.Cordillera Central.
Anyway, whatever the picture was in prehispanic times,
after the Spaniards started the conquering of lowland Filipino
tribes, those who submitted to the Spaniards naturally became
enemies of those who didn't. A Spanish complaint of 1606 says
the Igorots prevented the other Filipinos from becoming Christiafis,
and stole children who had been baptized to raise them in the old
pagan religion. Some Jesuit theologians in 1619 argued that a just
war could be made against the Igorots because they prevented free
passage through their lands to the Ilocanos and Cagayanes, "our

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