The Discovery of the Igorots

by William Henry Scott

Filipinos living in the Gran Cordillera Central mountains of Northern Luzon are generally called Igorots; this book tells the dramatic story of their ancestors' response to foreign invasion. For three centuries they resisted assimilation into the Spanish empire, monopolized the richest gold mines in the archipelago, sabotaged the government Tobacco Monopoly, and defied all restrictions on trade with their lowland brethren.