This April 24, we celebrate Cordillera Day. The commemoration of this day began in 1980, when the military killed tribal chieftain Macli-ing Dulag of the Butbut tribe and injured Pedro Dungoc, another leader of the Kalinga and Bontok peoples, over their opposition to the Chico River Basin Hydroelectric Dam Project (CRBHDP). Until 1984, April […]
The plight of indigenous peoples (IPs) in the Philippines is often overlooked, with over 100 IP groups in the country facing high rates of unemployment and illiteracy while struggling with discrmination and the prevalence of militarization and armed conflict in their ancestral territories. To give more background and context to these issues, and to […]
I would like to help our original culture to re-emerge, help people to understand who they are and what they were. – Datu Waway Saway Rodelio “Waway” Saway, Talaandig datu, brilliant master artist, musician, educator and current Municipal Councilor of Songco, Lantapan in Bukidnon, arrived November 6 at the University of the Philippines (UP) College […]