A piece I did for my kard for REBEL SOUL SOUNDSYSTEM in d SF Bay Area (Ohloneland). Drawing based on statue of our hero, Datu (Chief) LapuLapu, who defeated the Spaniards' first armed invasion attempt on Maktan. He took the head of the Portuguese mercenary commander of the Spanish force, a guy named Magellan. The Spaniards had raped many Visayan women, and set fire to some of our houses, so even women and children tried to attack them when they tried to land on Maktan. It is a commonly published lie that Magellan made it all the way around the world~ we stopped him at Maktan.
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ALOHA Kakou, When I was a Tour Driver in Waikiki, some people used to ask me, why did Hawaiians kill Capt Cook? I told them, what would you do if a person came to your homeland and you honored him as a God and his people Raped your people? Would you not Kill Him? In Old Hawaii there was no need for Rape.
hey right on...mahalo for the moʻolelo about Datu Lapulapu...thanks for posting on Maoliworld...wow...just came back from Guahan, Guam. The pillage and rape by Magellan and his forces was so brutal there as well..I would like to encourage all native peoples who were under Spanish colonial rule to talk story, say something...Bruddah K...right on...
Salamat 4 the comment. I had been told by both Kidlat Tahimik, the filmmaker from Baguio Arts Guild, and Joey Ayala, the singer/songwriter, that in their research they had found out interesting things not commonly included in U.S. history books about LapuLapu & Magellan. One is that Magellan had a slave whom he had "acquired" in what is now Indonesia whom he had named Enrique. Enrique could actually understand much of what the Visayans were saying, and might be the one who should be credited with being the first to actually make it all the way around the world. BTW, my folks are mainly from Guadelupe & Bikol on my mom's side, and Maktan, Olango, and Ilokos, on my dad's side.
Hmm, good point, I never realized it, but they always say that Magalhaes was the first to circumnavigate the globe when in reality he died on Maktan island. I been there, took pics at the monument. I went to visit my grandmother's hometown of Argao, Cebu in 2004 which she left back in 1922, never returned.
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