![]() ![]() She stops trusting Truman Hunt and seeing him for what he is, a manipulator trying to make money. Slowly Luki realises her people are not seen as equals coming together to explain who they are, but exhibits. ![]() ![]() And being made to perform serious rituals as entertainment is awkward, and in fact dehumanising and humiliating. It sounds like a wonderful adventure but actually after a long journey by boat and foot, she is really trapped in the ‘Igorot’ village. So Luki decides to take Truman Hunt’s offer to go to America to be part of the World Fair in St Louis. Ok she likes him, but she doesn’t want to get married and start having babies! She wants to be a warrior and is an amazing hunter but she has to hide her skills because girls aren’t allowed to hunt, and now the tribal elders want her to become a wife, and marry her best friend Samkad. The year is 1904 and Luki has lived her whole life in the mountains of the Philippines with her people, the Bontok tribe, but she’s not happy. ![]()
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