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Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay and fellow tribeswomen urge government and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to pull out the soldiers troops from their communities in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Fighting over Bibyaon’s remains and legacy

Even after her death, discussions about Talaingod chieftain Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay raise the issue of ancestral rights and red tagging that continue to hound and divide her tribe.

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Datu Benito Bay-ao was one of the Lumad leaders who were taken into custody after that disgraceful raid at the Bakwit School in Cebu City. Just six years ago, Dats Bens (as we call him) spoke with pride and optimism in this documentary about their Lumad school in their village of Dulyan, and across the other upland villages in the Pantaron under the Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanugon organization. Schooling in the cities made them ashamed of, and forget about, being a Lumad, he said. But with their schools built right in their domain, young Lumad could learn while keeping their tradition alive.

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