The Igorot (meaning "people of the mountains") are indigenous, Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups that live in the Cordillera Mountains of Northern Luzon, Philippines. A group of Igorot people lived in a village on the Pay Streak at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), held in Seattle in 1909. During the 1899 Philippine-American War, the Igorot were allied first with the independence fighters and later with the U.S. The Igorot “exhibit,” as well as a village of Inuit people from Alaska, were billed as educational but had a racist agenda. The intention was to show these groups as “primitive” and therefore in need of the U.S.’s colonial influence. The AYPE publicized the development of the Pacific Northwest and positioned Seattle as a gateway to Alaska and the Pacific Rim.