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    1) The document discusses a Waray-Waray folk song that commemorates the 1901 Balangiga incident in the Philippines, where over half of an American contingent of 70 soldiers were killed by local rebels unhappy with the American occupation. 2) The folk song uses riddles to hide the horrors experienced by locals after the Americans brutally retaliated, burning down the town including the church and taking the bells as war trophies. 3) The riddling verses in the folk song served as an instrument of resistance against the American oppression, providing a example of the political function of literature.

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    1) The document discusses a Waray-Waray folk song that commemorates the 1901 Balangiga incident in the Philippines, where over half of an American contingent of 70 soldiers were killed by local rebels unhappy with the American occupation. 2) The folk song uses riddles to hide the horrors experienced by locals after the Americans brutally retaliated, burning down the town including the church and taking the bells as war trophies. 3) The riddling verses in the folk song served as an instrument of resistance against the American oppression, providing a example of the political function of literature.

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    1) The document discusses a Waray-Waray folk song that commemorates the 1901 Balangiga incident in the Philippines, where over half of an American contingent of 70 soldiers were killed by local rebels unhappy with the American occupation. 2) The folk song uses riddles to hide the horrors experienced by locals after the Americans brutally retaliated, burning down the town including the church and taking the bells as war trophies. 3) The riddling verses in the folk song served as an instrument of resistance against the American oppression, providing a example of the political function of literature.

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    Inday Inday Nakain Ka

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    1) The document discusses a Waray-Waray folk song that commemorates the 1901 Balangiga incident in the Philippines, where over half of an American contingent of 70 soldiers were killed by local rebels unhappy with the American occupation. 2) The folk song uses riddles to hide the horrors experienced by locals after the Americans brutally retaliated, burning down the town including the church and taking the bells as war trophies. 3) The riddling verses in the folk song served as an instrument of resistance against the American oppression, providing a example of the political function of literature.

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    Inday, Inday, Nakain Ka?

    A Waray-Waray Folk Song

    There are three little folksongs in Waray that commemorate a little-heard-of event in
    Philippine history, the Balangiga incident, known popularly as the Balangiga Massacre. This
    happened in September 27 of 1901. The USA was spreading out to the countryside to enforce
    its power over its new colony. In late July 1901, a contingent of seventy soldiers landed in the
    obscure little town of Balangiga in the southeastern coast of Samar Island. More than half of
    the contingent was killed by the rebellious locals on the 27th of September of that year,
    unhappy over the intrusion and impositions done on their own life ways. The Americans
    responded with a brutal reprisal operation that turned the island into a “howling wilderness.”
    Local families sent their sons and daughters and their menfolk away, anyone who could be
    target of reprisal actions, out of Samar. Four songs came out of that period, well-remembered
    and well-loved record of those years of terror.
    I Inday, Inday, nakain ka
    Han kasunog han munyika?
    Pito ka tuig an paglaga,
    An aso waray kitaa.
    II Di ak nahuhulop ha tiyempo amihan.
    Damo an sundalo nga pagpipilian.
    An pipilion ko an binansilan
    Kay maopay ini pagburubag-iran.
    III Di ak’ nagtatangis,
    di ak’ nagtatangis
    Han kawaray banig.
    An igintatangisan ko
    An kawaray dirig.
    Ini nga lawas ko
    Nangingibig-kibig,
    Baga gud an bata
    Nagpurupulilid.
    IV Inday, kun waray ka la magyaga-yaga
    kinasal na kita yana,
    May ada na naton bata,
    mata-bata, nagdurudalagan ha tuna.
    The speaker asks the illusive Inday: “Nakain ka han kasunog han munyika.” He tells
    her, “Pito ka tuig an paglaga. An aso waray kitaa.” The song uses the device of a riddle to
    hide the horrors experienced by the people in the wake of the massacre. The Americans
    torched the town, including the church. The proud bells that summoned the local warriors to
    action on that fatal day were taken down as war trophy by the American army. These bells
    are subject now of negotiation between the two governments. No one outside of Samar and
    Leyte had any knowledge of the purging that took place. None of our history books mention
    Balangiga, although it is said to be the only battle won by the Filipinos against the
    Americans. The smoke of this conflagration was well-kept from the eyes of the generations
    that came after.
    The poem provides a good opportunity to study the political function of literature. The
    riddling verses serve as an instrument of resistance against oppression.

    Source:
    https://tinalunay.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/teaching-literature-in-the-mother-language/

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