Indigenous education continues to adapt to traditional forms in indigenous communities while also responding to the loss of indigenous knowledge brought about by colonization and globalization.
After walking along a steep, rough road in the middle of the hinterlands of Panalum, one sees the three-classroom building made of amakan leaves in the center of a hectare wide ancestral domain of the Ata tribe of Paquibato.
The SOS network said that Lumad schools have been constantly attacked by government troops. Prior to the Martial Law declaration in Mindanao, there have documented 87 incidents of attacks on schools under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte starting July 2016.
There are 14 million indigenous peoples in the Philippines, making up about 11% of the country’s population. Almost 60% of them are in Mindanao, comprising 18 ethnolinguistic tribes that are collectively known as Lumad, which literally means “native to the place”.
Two police officers belonging to the K9 unit who searched the premises of a non-governmental organization’s facility without permission Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 13) have already been relieved of their duty while on investigation, a ranking police official said Thursday.
Responses to the recent earthquakes in Mindanao prove that children also have their own way of helping others.
Peasant women group Amihan pointed to the Republic Act 11203 or Rice Liberalization Law as reason why the country reportedly surpassed China as the world’s biggest rice importer.
Families of media workers expressed their dismay over the 30-day extension on the ruling of the decade-old Ampatuan massacre case.
Only a small number of individuals in the region have donated blood yearly, says Philippine Red Cross – Davao Chapter (PRC-Davao).
Human rights group Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region (Karapatan-SMR) demanded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to immediately surface its former secretary general, Honey May Suazo.
