The following is a guest post by Mark Dizon, author of Reciprocal Mobilities: Indigeneity and Imperialism in an Eighteenth-Century Philippine Borderland, which is available now wherever books are sold. In 1753, a group of Igorot leaders from the Cordillera Mountains at the center of the island of Luzon were in Manila, the Spanish colonial capital of the Philippines, for a visit. They wanted to air their grievances against Spanish policies in the provinces. They met with the governor-general of the Philippines, who agreed to their requests. When I first encountered this story years ago, I...