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DepEd to accept students from suspended schools for Lumad
Salugpongan community school in Sitio Dulyan, Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte during the flag ceremony on 19 November 2018. Photo courtesy of Breakaway Media DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15...
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Gov’t promises P500M for schools in Lumad areas
LEARNING THE HARD WAY. Manobo children try to continue with their daily chores as students at the evacuation site in Tandag City on Thursday (1 October 2015). Some 3,000 mostly Manobo Lumads fled their...
View ArticleDepEd creates panel to look into complaints vs group of tribal schools
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 1 Aug) – The Department of Education (DepEd) in the Davao Region has created a five-man investigating panel that will look into the allegations of National Security Adviser...
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Almaciga: Lighting up lives in Governor Generoso (First Part)
Vice Mayor Vicente Orencia of Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental. MindaNews photo by GG BUENO GOVERNOR GENEROSO, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/06 August) – This coastal town used to be called Sigaboy, a...
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Almaciga: Lighting up lives in Governor Generoso (Last of Three Parts)
Sustainable income GOVERNOR GENEROSO, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/08 August) – The Biodiversity Partnership Project covers 12 of the town’s 20 barangays namely, Sergio Osmeña, Tandang Sora, Upper...
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Gov’t builds 400 houses for Lumad in DavNor
Talaingod Municipal Hall in Davao Del Norte. MindaNews photo taken on 30 November 2018 by MANMAN DEJETO DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 August) – Four hundred housing units worth P73 million are being...
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Ata Tribe
Women belonging to the Ata tribe from Barangay Tapak, Paquibato District in Davao City show how they mill rice manually at the Kadayawan Cultural Village in Davao City on 18 August 2019. The Atas are...
View ArticleA SOJOURNER’S VIEW: Mindanao Histories and Studies
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — A recent initiative to aggressively push for the inclusion of Mindanao’s identities, cultures, politics, languages, folkways, tales, as well as traditional...
View ArticleMayor Sara rebuffs Davao councilor on Salugpongan schools
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 September) – Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Monday maintained the local government would stand pat on its decision calling for the closure of schools for Lumad (indigenous...
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Higaonon datus in Bukidnon get firearms training from soldiers
IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 9 Oct) – Instead of celebrating the Indigenous Peoples Month with songs and dances, a small band of Higaonon elders are busy practicing how to fire guns at paper...
View ArticleA SOJOURNER’S VIEW: Indigenous leadership: A gift and task from God
On Sunday, 13 October 2019, the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines celebrates the Indigenous People’s Sunday. It might be useful to provide a background how this has evolved. Before Islam arrived...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Talaandigs’ Panalawahig
SONGCO, Lantapan, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 14 October) — Indigenous Peoples of Bukidnon hold rituals for various purposes. Requirements such as the number of chickens and other offerings, may differ from...
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“Lord, unsa naman ni, Linog tapos bagyo nasad karun ug niulan ug ice”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 November) – Bakwits once, twice. How many times more? A number of residents who evacuated to the town center of Makilala in North Cotabato following quake-induced landslides...
View ArticleA SOJOURNER’S VIEW: Buklog
There has been no end to the bad news coming our way recently. On Sunday, December 15, the strongest earthquake (at magnitude 6.9) rocked most of the areas in south Mindanao, especially Davao del Sur....
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The view from inside
UCCP Bishop Hamuel Tequis and Lumad leaders prepare for the 1 p.m. press briefing inside the UCCP’s Haran compound in Davao City on 25 January 2020. The police , however, barred the media from entering...
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Another dialogue set to tackle plight of Lumad evacuees
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 January) – Human rights groups and relatives of the Lumad evacuees staying at the Haran compound of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) will hold another...
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A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: Butuan’s Bishops-Beliyan Dialogue
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 February) – As all kinds of disasters greeted us since January – from Australia’s forest fires to Taal’s eruption to COVID-19 – our attention have been riveted as to how...
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Lawmakers seek House probe of shooting vs Lumads in Surigao Sur
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 5 March) – Lawmakers belonging to Bayan Muna have asked the House of Representatives to investigate the “indiscriminate firing” last Feb. 21 in a Lumad village in Surigao...
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ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Pamalandong sa Tubig Naging Delubyo
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 28 May) – Nag-search ako ng Global Deluge. Ayon, maraming links doon. Isa ang madaling maintindihan, meron ding mapa. Nakakagimbal talaga. Hindi lang yong nakasulat sa...
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Celebrating Mindanao in the midst of a pandemic: face masks made of ‘Inaul’...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 May) — I have always been mystified by the woven fabrics of our Mindanawon weavers. This fascination to anything indigenously woven can all be traced back to my childhood. My...
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