Hundreds of Ata-Manobos from Talaingod, Davao del Norte marched at the office of logging firm Alcantara & Sons in Lanang, Davao City Wednesday to protest the company’s Integrated Forest Management Agreement, which they said is a commercial logging venture encroaching their ancestral domain. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Birang ug uban pang sugilanon sa mga Bayaning Lumad sa Mindanao assumes the dual function of a school children’s book and a pastime for adult readers interested in humble beginnings, native birth, rituals and assaults. The color and realism of indigenous culture is interspersed in the universal concepts of freedom, valor, independence and patriotism—themes that are lost in the commercial pageantry and crass spectacle of Philippine indigenous festivals.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Small-scale miners grapple with the impact of landslides and the government’s demolition order.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN