Bukidnon: The Matigsalug Tribe

Matigsalug People

By: Arrianne Dominguez

Matigsalug is known as the highland paradise It is the area’s primary wellspring of agricultural items, specially particulaly rice, corn, espresso, pineapple, and sugar. Therefore, Bukidnon is known as the area of “food basket.” Its panoramic landscape of moving field levels and in addition its cool atmosphere makes it a perfect place for local people and tourist alike. The congenital people called Matigsalug Tribe are famous in terms of weaving, bead making and patchwork.

Matigsalug are the original inhabitants of the Salug River (now called the Davao River). Thus, their name comes from the words matig, meaning “from,” and salug, meaning “river.” Over the years, the tribe moved upstream of the Salug River due to constant raids and harassment. They were pushed further inland because of the influx of various groups, such as the Ilocanos, Batangueños, Ilonggos, and Cebuanos in the area. This place is not one of those that would be in your places to find in the Philippines: : to specify that you are going to bukidnon to different filipinos will most likely welcome some gaze of judgment and even contradiction in any case, how did I, on the other hand, see Bukidnon?

Bukidnon is proof to differing degrees of cultural assimilation of its people. Bukidnons live close to the edges of the timberlands and straightforwardly inside the limits of the lowlanders. Bukidnons have completely acclimatized the methods for urban living and scarcely recognize the old methods for their experience. According to Ms. Ludevina R. Opeña,1982. Bukidnon is traditional people is generally monotheistic. They believe in one God “Magbabaya” (the ruler of all) who has minor gods and goddesses under his command (i.e. Ibabasok – who watches over growth of crops; Dagingon – who watches over planting and harvest season; Bulalakaw – who is the god of the rivers and lakes, Tumpas Nanapiyaw or Itumbangol – who watches over the base of the earth night and day). Marriage is almost always through parental arrangements. A kaula-an (bride price) is to be paid by the groom to the bride’s family. The Kaliga-an rituals are divided into genre: the political and religious ones performed by the datus and those agricultural rituals for the farmers.

Matigsalug is also called Matigsalug” is a term, which means “people along the Salug River (now called the Davao River).” Matigsalug is engaged in various weave, they identified the 3 different kinds of – Tinilogas (one over one), Tigdaruwa (two over two) and Tigtatulo (two over one). They are also experimental in their application of mat edgings like Sinapay or Insapay, and Binaling or Igbaling. Usually, traditional Bukidnon clothings are decorated with geometric shapes like Binitu-on, binabangon, and kinabuka. These traditional Bukidnon garments are widely ornate with shapes and the strong colors of red, blue, white and black. This is also seen in the making of the traditional “panika” (headdress). The Bukidnon traditional emboridery process is called panulam and the embroidered cloth is called pinamulaan.

Matigsalug is a tourist spot because of its unique indigenous culture of each tribe that originally inhabited the region. During the months of February and March in Malaybalay City, the Bukidnon, Higaonon, Manobo, Talaandig, Matigsalug, Umayamnon, and Tigwahanon tribes show off their colorful attires and showcase their authentic rituals that have endured through the years.

Bukidnon is proof to differing degrees of cultural assimilation of its people. The Datu is one who settles disputes and gives judgment whenever their unwritten laws called Batasan are violated. The Bukidnon Datu holds a great influence and is somebody to reckon with where peace and order conditions are concerned in the hinterlands even today. The primary degree Bukidnons are those driving the most customary way of life and those whose guardians are full-blooded locals. They are the individuals who lived remote from any entrance of lowlander impact, somewhere down in the backwoods and along the watershed territories and the primary streams. The second-degree Bukidnons live close to the edges of the timberlands and straightforwardly inside the limits of the lowlanders. An exhaustive cross-examination. Bukidnons are very acclimatized locals and are by and large ready to send their youngsters off to class. The fourth-degree Bukidnons have completely acclimatized the methods for urban living and scarcely recognize the old methods for their experience. The fifth-degree Bukidnons are to a great extent late outsiders from different parts of the Philippine archipelago and have made Bukidnon as their lasting home.

Bukidnon known as one of the traditionalistic congenital gathering in the Southern Philippines. They settle the Northeastern as the piece of Mindanao, the second biggest island of the archipelago. The congenital province called Bukidnon Tribe is terms of agricultural production of corn lands, pineapple and irrigated rice.

Bukidnon is a landlocked region in the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao province. Its capital is the city of Malaybalay. The province borders, clockwise beginning from the north, Misamis Oriental, Agusan Del Sur, Davao del Norte, Cotabato, Lanao Del Sur, and Lanao Del Norte. This place is not one of those that would be in your places to find in the Philippines: to specify that you are going to bukidnon to different filipinos will most likely welcome some gaze of judgment and even contradiction. in any case, how did I, on the other hand, see bukidnon?

Bukidnon is proof to differing degrees of cultural assimilation of its people. The primary degree Bukidnons are those driving the most customary way of life and those whose guardians are full-blooded locals. They are the individuals who lived remote from any entrance of lowlander impact, somewhere down in the backwoods and along the watershed territories and the primary streams. The second-degree Bukidnons live close to the edges of the timberlands and straightforwardly inside the limits of the lowlanders. An exhaustive cross-examination. Bukidnons are very acclimatized locals and are by and large ready to send their youngsters off to class. The fourth-degree Bukidnons have completely acclimatized the methods for urban living and scarcely recognize the old methods for their experience. The fifth-degree Bukidnons are to great extent late outsiders from different parts of the Philippine archipelago and have made Bukidnon as their lasting home.

 

Bukidnon visual art is traditionally expressed in weaving, crafts, earth painting, beadwork, patchwork and embroidery. For example, the Bukidnons are identified for their three different kinds of weave – Tinilogas (one over one), Tigdaruwa (two over two) and Tigtatulo (two over one). They are also experimental in their application of mat edgings like Sinapay or Insapay, and Binaling or Igbaling. Usually, traditional Bukidnon clothings are decorated with geometric shapes like Binitu-on, binabangon, and kinabuka. These traditional Bukidnon garments are widely ornate with shapes and the strong colors of red, blue, white and black. This is also seen in the making of the traditional “panika” (headdress). The Bukidnon traditional emboridery process is called panulam and the embroidered cloth is called pinamulaan.

“Bukidnon” (mountain dweller) was gotten from the Cebuano dialect yet these days, it is acknowledged by most individuals from the ethnic gathering alluded to. The congenital province called Bukidnon Tribe is Matigsalugs, Tigwahanuns and Higa-onon.

Mindoro: The Mangyan Tribe

Mangyan people

By: Faye Villafania

The indigenous people of Mindoro called Mangyan. In the Philippines the Mangyan have a hundred thousand of population and majority grown roots in Mindoro. There are some different mangyan groups called Iraya, Bangon, and Hanunoo. They are all well organized and it makes them unique. They have a strict and active tribal council that visitors can enter easily their community.

Iraya is one of the mangyan group, they lived in the municipalities of San Teodoro, Baco and Prueto Galera but most of them are livin in Occidental Mindoro. In a small community most of them are well educated some are police officers, teachers and government employees. Iraya described as having dark skin but not dark as the negritos, curly hair. The traditional attire of the Iraya Mangyans was made of dry tree bark, it was pounded to make it soft and flat. Women wore blouse and skirt and men usually wore g-strings made of cloth during the Ancient times but now they dressed just like the lowland people.

One of the Mangyan group livin along Bongabon River, the surrounding mountains in the municipalities of Bansud, Gloria and Bongabong called Bangon Mangyans in Oriental Mindodo. Having their own culture, language and writing system, asserted and different from the other tribes in Oriental Mindoro. Bangon Mangyans are considered as the seventh major tribe not a sub tribe of the Tau-bid. In Ogom Liguma, Buhid Mangyans accepted the word Bangon for their tribe in the twenty eight of March 1996.

Hanunoo Mangyan is known for their Hanunoo script where they carved into a bamboo because there is no paper before unlike now, this is one of the way to communicate with others occasionally. They live in the towns of San Pedro and Mansalay their language known as Hanunoo-Mangyan.