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Indigenous people’s resistance against the Marcos dictatorship varied from case to case among the various indigenous peoples of the Philippines.The most documented cases are the various resistance movements towards the Marcos administration’s appropriation of indigenous lands, particularly in the case of the Chico River Dam Project and the Manila Water Supply III project on the Kaliwa ...
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples later estimated that 300,000 people would have been affected by the project. [8] As a pangat of the Butbut, Macli-ing was one of the first leaders to oppose the project, organizing a bodong (peace council) in Barrio Tanglag in 1974 as an attempt to rally opposition against the dam.
Because of the marginalized situation of indigenous peoples in the Philippines, many affected by militarization, environmental degradation, resource plunder, and the ongoing counter-insurgency war of the Philippine government, they have been forced to evacuate or become "bakwit" (a colloquial term) to schools, churches, and other evacuation centers.
Bigkay received the University of the Philippines Gawad Tandang Sora award in 2017 for leadership in indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights and dignity. [8] She was hailed as "the Tandang Sora of the countryside… the Mother of the Lumads who inspires the revolution of the Filipino people for national self-determination and freedom."
Indigenous peoples continue to struggle as they suffer discrimination in most countries where they coexist with non-Indigenous peoples. The majority of the world's Indigenous peoples are among the poorest groups within the states where they live, and they amount to 19% of the world's poor. [26] [2] [27]
The indigenous peoples of the Philippines are ethnolinguistic groups or subgroups that maintain partial isolation or independence throughout the colonial era, and have retained much of their traditional pre-colonial culture and practices. [1] The Philippines has 110 enthnolinguistic groups comprising the Philippines' indigenous peoples; as of ...
She cofounded the Cordillera Peoples Alliance for the Defense of Ancestral Domain and Self Determination (also known as Cordillera People's Alliance) in 1984 and has been a part of this organization ever since. [6] She is chairperson of Sandugo, which assists Philippine indigenous communities in their struggle for self-determination. [7]
During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines (1565–1898), there were several revolts against the Spanish colonial government by indigenous Moro, Lumad, Indios, Chinese (Sangleys), and Insulares (Filipinos of full or near full Spanish descent), often with the goal of re-establishing the rights and powers that had traditionally belonged to Lumad communities, Maginoo rajah, and Moro datus.