Christmas wish: Lumad leader wants gov’t to see IP situation (Part 2 of 2: We are not rebel supporters)

City life is far different from the way of life of the indigenous peoples’ in the countrysides, said Juanito Binaton, an evacuee who is among the hundreds of evacuees here in Davao City.

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Christmas wish: Lumad leader wants gov’t to see IP situation (Part 1 of 2: Not their tradition)

DAVAO CITY - Christmas celebration is not part of the culture of the indigenous peoples, but on this season of giving, a Lumad leader shared that he wish the Philippine…

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Manobo mothers from Talaingod, Davao City take care of their children as they rest by the roadside in Davao City.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Visitors: A Lumad’s tale of hardships

Life in the countryside is hard says Julieta Canoman, a Matigsalog mother of four, and this makes her and other Lumad villagers to come down to downtown Davao City on Christmases to have the opportunity to receive whatever the city residents would have to give them.

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HOME BIRTH. Matigsalug-Kulamanon from Kitaotao, Bukidnon Rita Yambanao carries her grandson after she assisted giving birth to her niece, Lindy, on Tuesday afternoon. Lindy is the third woman from their barangay who gave birth inside the church-owned compound where Lumad evacuees are sheltered. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Lumad woman gives birth in evacuation center

Lindy Yambanao, a 23 year-old Matigsalug-Kulamanon tribal woman from Kitaotao, Bukidnon gave birth to a baby boy, her fourth child Tuesday afternoon in a make-shift shelter house inside an evacuation center here.

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