Surprised that even the term “Igorot” was associated with communist rebels, the city council has summoned an official of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to explain what appeared to be a new policy. | via Vincent Cabreza/PDI
He made the pronouncement during the launch of the NCIP’s Epanaw set of coffee table books at a mall here on March 21, 2021.
In an interview on Wednesday, lawyer Atanacio Addog, the NCIP Cordillera director, said Cayat’s opinion was not policy being advocated by his agency. The council cited the late historian William Henry Scott and his 1974 book, “The Discovery of the Igorots,” when it stressed that “Igorot was a general term used to refer to people from the Cordilleras [to include] Isneg, Kalinga, Bontok, Ayangan, Tuwali, Kalanguya, Kankanaey, Iwak, Karao, Tinguian, Balangao and Ibaloy who successfully resisted assimilation into the Spanish Empire.
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