By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today KIDAPAWAN CITYEven if the Supreme Court has declared the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain…
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By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Lumads belonging to the Mindanao-wide indigenous peoples group Kalumaran claim theyre being recruited to fight the NPAs against their will. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Lumads are made to fight against each other so that big mining companies and plantations can come in and take control of the ancestral domain, said Norma Capuyan, Kalumaran vice chairperson.
Dulphing Ogan, secretary-general of the indigenous peoples group Kalumaran, said that militarization remains to be the greatest problem facing the lumads, who are also fast losing their ancestral lands to big mining and plantation companies without their consent.
In other places, a mining firm operates but there are no plantations, he said, But in all places, the military presence brings about widespread fear.Read on.
Various designs of the dagmay(davaotoday.com photo)
By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today
Among the Mandayas, the dagmay has been worn as womens skirts but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead. Each design, however, carries with it a certain story. Most of the traditional designs, which can easily date back to over a hundred years, have come to them in dreams.
NOSTALGIA. A reproduction of Armorsolo’s Fruit Harvesting (1950) on display at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Celebrating Ginum: A Festival for a Bountiful Harvest, runs at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year, the 13th of the 20 Amorsolo retrospective satellite exhibits slated around the country.
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Amorsolos Fruit Harvesting and the life of the people
By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro
Ten years after a fieldtrip in my kindergarten, I visited Davao Museum again on a Saturday morning. I would not have bothered if not for the Amorsolos satellite exhibit. The entrance fee piqued me a bit. It made me think that museums are not really for the common folks but for tourists who would like to see in capsule the citys history.
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Government has declared the 8,100 hectares, which included the gold rush site of Diwalwal, as a mineral reserve, taking over full control of its operation. Government has divided the area into three zones, the 729 hectare gold rush site operated by the small miners, another zone open for large scale investors and the tribal section, where indigenous peoples who formerly owned the land are allowed to operate.
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Lumad leader Kerlan Fanagel is surprised to see his picture on a poster of the wanted list of Communist rebels displayed in public areas in Compostela town, Compostela Valley Province. Fanagel figured in the fight against the militarization of Lumad communities in Compostela. His Lumad group Pasaka points to the 28th IB of the Philippine Army as the people behind those posters, an accusation that the Philippine Army denies. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
The Kadayawan celebration in August this year will focus mainly on Davao’s “tribal diversity,” to give due recognition to the 10 tribal groups in the city. The commercial features the Davao tribes and projects reasons why tourists should visit Davao.
Matigsalug evacuees from Compostela presented their case to a United Nations body to highlight the continuing violations of indigenous peoples’…
The PASAKA confederation of Lumad organizations in southern Mindanao decried the baptism of east Mindanao commander major general Armando L….
Major Medel Aguilar has proven all the more how ignorant he is about the rights of indigenous peoples. His statements…
