Igorot people

Igorot is a Tagalog word for "mountain people" and denotes the inhabitants of the mountains of central Luzon. Igorot had a derogatory connotation implying backwardness and cultural inferiority.

There are seven major kinds of Igorots, these are: Apayao, Tinggian, Kalinga, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kankanai, and Ibaloi.

A group of Igorots were exhibited - as "savages" to be looked at like exotic animals - at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (the 1904 World's Fair) in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Igorot enclosure was on the current site of Wydown Middle School, which at one time had an Igorot as the school mascot.

External links

Other websites

• Igorot Global Organization
• Sagada Igorots