"The Haunting Story of Filipinos Locked in a ‘Human Zoo’"
At the 1904 World Fair in St Louis, indigenous peoples of the Cordilleras Region of the Philippine Islands were displaced and relocated to a mock village; all for the viewing pleasures of the [white] Americans of the time.
Children, mothers, grandmothers, fathers and warriors were put on display as the wild head-hunting dog-eating savages they were projected to be.
The people of the time and still to a great degree presently, were a people who had maintained their pre-colonial culture after the colonization of the low-land tribes. By the time of the Spanish-American war, much of the "native" content of those low-land cultures (Tagalogs, Ilocanos, Visayans etc) were already a distant memory.
It's wild to consider that my Sungay Popoy Akay was already older than 50years when this took place. She passed away from this Earth in the 1960s.
"The Filipino natives were forced to eat a total of 900 dogs just to satisfy the demand from the 1904 St. Louis World`s Fair. The Philippine Pavillion was the main attraction and drew the largest crowds. All these degradation just to justify an unjust war with the Philippines` Generation of 1898- the greatest generation of Filipinos." - Ka Eliseo Art A. Silva
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