Please join UCOP’s Native American, Indigenous and Pacific Islander Staff Association on May 5, 2021 for a presentation and Q&A about decolonizing history and knowledge production by Dr. Stephen Acabado, associate professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Presentation description: Historical narratives describe Philippine Cordillerans as isolated and “untainted” by European, or even by lowland, cultures. They (highland peoples) then become stereotypes of “original Filipinos,” a label that is ethnocentric since it denotes unchanging culture through centuries of existence. Indeed, Philippine history…