The Igorots of the Cordilleras are among the indigenous peoples of the
Philippines who are suffering from a national oppression deeply rooted
in the Filipino society. They, (the IPs)
who refused that their lands and their cultural identity be taken away
from them by foreign invaders and colonizers were demonized and tagged
as barbaric and savages so that their fellow countrymen who were already
subjugated by the foreign invaders will look at them as enemies of
civilization and therefore should be treated as different and inferiors.
