By Jes Aznar on December 22 2012 9:32 am
Their vividly colored indigenous clothing shout like a blast of dynamite ripping through the mountains they call home. It is Tuesday and they are standing in a busy avenue in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 27 2012 11:31 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 October) — There are no names yet as both panels are still shortlisting nominees to the Transition Commission (TransCom) that will be set up when President Benigno… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on October 23 2012 11:14 pm
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 October) – A Manobo tribesman was killed by some 80 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who abducted him and two other men during a raid on… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 18 2012 12:38 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 18 Oct) – About 700 lumad leaders attending the 1st Bukidnon Provincial Indigenous Peoples Congress signed Wednesday a resolution urging President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to… »
By Rudy Buhay Rodil on October 16 2012 4:58 pm
4th of a series ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/16 October) — I first read the President’s speech, October 7, the same day it was delivered, on my 70th birthday; I saw the… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 25 2012 9:52 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 September)—Harnessing the potentials of indigenous peoples to produce medicines from plants and herbs as a livelihood opportunity is better than allowing mining in their ancestral domains, a… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 20 2012 6:26 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 Sept) – Political and economic rights are on top of the eight-point legislative agenda of the indigenous peoples in Malaybalay City, according to a lumad leader. Umayamnon… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 14 2012 6:22 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) – Indigenous cultural communities and indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) in Bukidnon will be holding a province-wide IP congress and local governance dialogue in October to consolidate their… »
By Vanessa L. Almeda on May 7 2012 5:39 am
KM. 90, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/06 May) – Tension has gripped another mining company here as at least a hundred members of the Mamanwa tribe have taken over the minesite… »
By Walter I. Balane on April 24 2012 9:47 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 April) – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), sitting en banc, has issued a “final and executory” decision on the 480-hectare Villalon Ranch, denying the motion… »
By Keith Bacongco on September 4 2011 7:36 am
Early in the morning of Thursday, September 1, residents near the regional office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) along the corner of Tiano and Del Pilar Streets… »
By Rico Biliran on February 3 2011 5:24 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Feb) – The House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry on the alleged irregularities concerning the multimillion-peso royalty payments made by a mining company to the Mamanwa… »
By Froilan Gallardo on October 21 2010 9:27 am
The tribe’s art is everywhere in the Talaandig village in Songco. It is in their music, paintings, inside their houses and even on their doors. Children learn to beat the drums as soon as their hands can reach thecowhide canvases and Talaandig grandmothers see to it that this tradition is passed on by teaching the children how to dance to the beat of the drums.
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 18 2010 12:04 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Nancy Catamco is set to propose the integration in elementary and high school curricula the study of cultures and traditions of… »
