Cultural Advocacy for Ilokano Heritage Language and Culture. A reframing of language as part of a heritage and thus forming a core in the cultural life of a people, either as migrants, as in the case of Ilokanos in the diaspora, or as Ilokanos in the homeland beset with the problems of a colonial and neocolonial experience, with the problems of globalized way of thinking and doing about things, and with the problems related to the hegemonization of national experience via the national language at the expense of the languages and cultures from the regions.