A Sojourner's View: Mindanao Histories and Studies

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — A recent initiative to aggressively push for the inclusion of Mindanao’s identities, cultures, politics, languages, folkways, tales, as well as traditional conflict resolution systems, trading practices, family relations and, finally the concept of peace and development into the Philippines’ formal and non-formal educational engagements has just taken off with a proposed roadmap.

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Published on 21/09/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, History, Lifestyle, People
Tags: American, Davao, History, History, Lumad, Manila, Mindanao, Power, colonial, indigenous, story, story

Possessed and Repossessed in T’Boli Country

Situated about 70 kilometers from the port city of General Santos, Lake Sebu municipality spans 89 kilometers and can be found in the upper Allah Valley near the municipality of Surallah. It has rolling hills, mountain forests and three lakes devoted to aquaculture, the largest of which is the beautiful Lake Sebu, which covers 354 hectares.

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Published on 12/12/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture
Tags: Cotabato, Tboli, indigenous, lakes, people

Birthing in the Time of El Niño: Marlinda's Story

On the morning of October 26, 2015 some 700 indigenous peoples from Mindanao arrived at the University of the Philippines in Diliman to a rousing welcome from a huge crowd of supporters. Wearing their native costumes, the Lumad people were in a caravan called “Manilakbayan” that had traveled from Surigao City to Eastern Visayas and then had crossed over to Luzon to highlight their call to stop human rights violations in various Lumad communities.

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Published on 29/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: People, Stories
Tags: Mindanao, indigenous, people

Tawbuid, Eastern

Tawbuids are pipe smokers, and children start smoking at an early age. A loincloth is standard wear for both men and women. In some areas, women wrap a knee-length cloth around their back bra-string while men are dressed in cloth.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Eastern, Mindoro, indigenous, tribal

Tasaday

The Tasaday are the indigenous people inhabiting the tropical rain forests of South Cotabato in the SOCCSKSARGEN region. Tasadays are believed to be descendants of T’boli and Manobo, who were originally identified as “Linat Batang.”

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Tags: indigenous, people

Tadyawan

The Tadyawan occupy Oriental Mindoro, specifically Naujan, Victoria, Socorro, Pola, Gloria, and Bansud. Their language belongs to the North Mangyan subgroup of the Philippine languages.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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T'boli

One of southern Mindanao’s indigenous people, the T’boli are concentrated in Kiamba, Maitum, and Surallah in South Cotabato. As settlers from other Philippine islands arrived, the T’boli gradually withdrew to the mountain slopes and lived in scattered villages.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Tags: Mindanao, Tboli, indigenous

Ratagnon

Ratagnons, found in the southern tip of Occidental Mindoro, are also known as Datagnons and Latagnons. It is believed that they are not original settlers of Mindoro since their language is more similar to Cuyonon, a language

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Iraya

The Iraya Mangyans live in Occidental Mindoro, mainly in the towns of Abra de Ilog, Mamburao, and Paluan. Some populations of Iraya are also found in the Oriental Mindoro towns of Puerto Galera, San Teodoro, and Baco.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Hanunoo

The Hanunoo inhabit southern Mindoro Island, particularly in the towns of Mansalay and San Pedro. Their language is known as Hanunoo-Mangyan, or simply Mangyan. Unlike many other Filipino languages, Hanunoo-Mangyan has a written script, so that many members of the tribe can read and write. Their system of writing is descended from the ancient Sanskrit alphabet.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Buhid

The eight indigenous tribes of Mindoro have known no other home since prehistory, although their ancestors probably migrated from Indonesia. (The seventh-largest island in the Philippines, Mindoro is part of the MIMAROPA Region and is divided into two provinces, Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro.)

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Bangon

The eight indigenous tribes of Mindoro have known no other home since prehistory, although their ancestors probably migrated from Indonesia. (The seventh-largest island in the Philippines, Mindoro is part of the MIMAROPA Region and is divided into two provinces, Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro.) The tribes, which are referred to by the general term "Mangyan," comprise the Alangan, Bangon, Buhid, Hanunoo, Iraya, Ratagnon, Tadyawan, and Tawbuid.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Alangan

The eight indigenous tribes of Mindoro have known no other home since prehistory, although their ancestors probably migrated from Indonesia. (The seventh-largest island in the Philippines, Mindoro is part of the MIMAROPA Region and is divided into two provinces, Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro.)

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Tags: Alangan, Mindoro, indigenous, tribal

The Manobo Indigenous People of Biao

Biao is an upland community in Sultan Kudarat located 500m above sea level. It is an IP Manobo village with 191 households. Logging and hunting are the main source of income of the people. Families don’t stay in a place permanently because of nomadic lifestyle. Men don’t plant but were more of “warriors” while their wives are the farmers. Reports of death due to starvation occurred several times.

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Published on 25/02/2018 by puertoparrot
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Lumad

The Lumad are a group of non-Muslim indigenous people in the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or "indigenous". The term is short for Katawhang Lumad (Literally: "indigenous people"), the autonym officially adopted by the delegates of the Lumad Mindanao Peoples Federation (LMPF) founding assembly on 26 June 1986 at the Guadalupe Formation Center, Balindog, Kidapawan, Cotabato, Philippines.

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Published on 25/02/2018 by puertoparrot
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Tags: Lumad, indigenous, people