Word: negrito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...olive-skinned Pygmies, said Dr. Ellinger last week, speak the Negrito dialect, but also have a language of their own which neither he nor his guides could understand. The little men have finer features than the Negritos and unfrizzed, wavy hair. The women could pass for miniature Indonesians; their light-brown eyes and graceful limbs give them the appearance of tiny Balinese girls...
People: The first settlers, who, some theorize, may have come by land bridges from the Asiatic mainland, were aboriginal Negrito pygmies. Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip...
Magsaysay wasted no time in announcing his own, three-point program for dealing with the Huks. It was a lulu. The program : 1) organize a unit of Negrito tribesmen to clean the Huks out of three major provinces ("The Negritos," said Magsaysay, "know the mountains better and are more deadly with the bow & arrow than the Huks are with a gun"); 2) import some bloodhounds from the U.S. to help track the Huks through the jungles; 3) dump all captured and surrendered Huks on an uninhabited island and there teach them the democratic way of life...