Caraga Revolt - notable for being the first large-scale, and therefore the bloodiest, anti-Spanish uprising on record initiated by Lumad peoples.
The Spanish fortification at Tandag, named after Saint Joseph, also referred to as the presidio of Caraga, was first built on the eastern coastline of Mindanao in 1609
indios-a thankless job performed for very little pay
cabecera, or mission center
visitas or annexed villages
backsliding (going remontado)
ill-fated Loaisa expedition in 1526, survivors of which were found two years later by the Saavedra expedition to be living among the mandaya, or upriver dwellers
datu Inuc of Marihatag-then regarded as the" foremost problem" of the Caraga mission-made a surprise move, on his own initiative, to make peace with the missionaries
g caracoas or war boats,
kncilil (Moro nobleman)
"mangayao," or conduct a raid,
Baganga to the south, in what is now Davao Oriental province, bordenng on terntory then recognized as belonging to the Magindanaw.
criado, or domestic servant,
Tandag fort's official expeditions framed as mangayao
cobrador, or tribute collector, Gaspar de los Reyes,
cantores (choir singers)
panda is (carpenters)
a sangley, or Chinese migrant worker, named Aingo,
cartas, or letters
ylaya, or the upriver / interior portion of the Agusan River
old native ally named Dacsa61-the violence only escalated.
official account or relacion
acted out of hatred (odio)
extramuros [outside the walls] of this city
lethal treachery is regarded as "the ultimate form of violence"
Maria Campan - principal of tago, like Mangabo, the main architect of the revolt. This means that she was from a family with social influence in Tago, the kind of people whose men would have become datu.
Maria Campan was specifically referred to as a mujer, or woman, and not a doncella, or girl.
Lumads' ritual worship of "filthy" diwata idols
hechiceros or sorcerers
publico y notorio, that places widely known, publicly acknowledged "facts,"
Spanish-speaking indio from Camarines, in the Bicol region of southern Luzon, Thomas Dongon
recogimiento-a word that ties religious devotion to being "removed" from vulgar society-as a key moral and social value in the highly patriarchal Spanish colonial milieu
mujer recogida, or modest woman
The word recogida itself carries broad connotations of being "collected" as a person
modesty (recato),
had been subjected to the fiery, public autos da fe of the Spanish InquiSition for doing much less than what Marfa Campan had done in the church at Tago.
Recogimiento- as a female ideal therefore addresses a perceived need for internal and external discipline to mitigate what were apparently considered to be "natural" female tendencies towards wayward, dangerous behavior-not just female audacity and impudence but the absence of morality itself
beatas, or "blessed women, -they suggest that the Iberian missionaries were not entirely opposed to female prowess, as long as it was used in the service of their agenda.
One of these beatas was a Butuanon woman whose baptismal name was Isabel, to whom the Recoletos credited an untold number of conversions. In a report of her death in 1646, she was described as having "so much grace and g
Moros, in fact, were routinely characterized as traidor, or treacherous, and irredeemably so, as were their Lumad allies who made life dangerous for the Recoletos and other Spaniards.