AN OPEN LETTER Sagip hits Talaingod officials for denying the evacuation of lumads An open letter on the evacuation, displacement…
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Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.
Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the countrys lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District,…
More on livelihood, health care and basic services water supply, better road access, and education. These are the needs of indigenous peoples (Lumads) in his province, according to Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario when Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI), a Davao City based non-governmental organization (NGO), made a courtesy visit in his office.
Across Mindanao, Lumad vs. Lumad as firms gobble up tribal land
“There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country,” Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
Tribal women perform during the opening ceremonies of the Kadayawan Festival last week. (davaotoday.com photo by Tyrone A. Velez) Click here for more Kadayawan pictures.
By TYRONE A. VELEZ and CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
As the city announced a shift in the way the annual Kadayawan Festival is celebrated — that is, for one, showcasing Lumad culture and tradition not for tourism’s sake — tribal leaders remain concerned that the festivities hardly depict the struggle of Mindanao’s indigenous peoples to pursue their unique way of life and retain control of their ancestral lands, which have been encroached into by big mining companies and plantations.
Kalahi, the group of Karlo Nograles, the son of Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles, has been accused of allegedly using…
Three of 20 indigenous people (IP) or lumads who are assisted in their college studies by the Aboitiz-owned Davao Light…
By Rose B. Palacio DAVAO CITY — In respond to what most European and domestic tourists are looking for, the…
