"I am an Igorot. Let me be treated as I deserve—with respect if I am good, with contempt if I am no good, irrespective of the name I carry. Let the term, Igorot, remain, and the world will use it with the correct meaning attached to it."
– Jose Dulnuan
The term Igorot include the ethno-linguistic groups of, the Bontoc, Ibaloi, Ifugao, Isneg, Kalinga, and the Kankana-ey. The Cordillera Region is their ancestral domain wherein the "politically correct " term Cordilleran was derived.
The Cordillera Region is made up of the provinces of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Mt. Province, Kalinga and the cities of Baguio and Tabuk. Each ethno-linguistic group adhere to their own set of rituals and beliefs.
Igorots are different from Negritos and/or Aetas nor are they called Ilocanos.
Remember that.
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