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Defenders of Indigenous land rights, environmentalists, and human rights activists have also been harassed. [57] [64] [65] The Lumad are people from various ethnic groups in Mindanao island. Residing in their ancestral lands, [66] they are often evicted and displaced because of the Moro people's claim on the same territory. [67]
The Manobò (sometimes also spelled Menobò, Manuvù , Menuvù , or Minuvù) [1] [2] are an indigenous peoples from Mindanao in the Philippines, whose core lands cover most of the Mindanao island group, [3] from Sarangani island into the Mindanao mainland in the regions of Agusan, Davao, Bukidnon, Surigao, Misamis, and Cotabato.
The population of Chinese in Mindanao in the 1880s was 1,000. The Chinese ran guns across a Spanish blockade to sell to Mindanao Moros. The purchases of these weapons were paid for by the Moros in slaves in addition to other goods. The main group of people selling guns were the Chinese in Sulu.
Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...
When Corazon C. Aquino became president, a new constitution, which provided for the creation of autonomous regions in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, was ratified. On 1 August 1989, Republic Act 673 or the Organic Act for Mindanao created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which encompasses Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, and Tawi ...
The Muslim ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan are collectively referred to as the Moro people, [2] a broad category that includes some Indigenous people groups and some non-Indigenous people groups. [1]: 6 With a population of over 5 million people, they comprise about 5% of the country's total population. [3] [4]
The Blaan people, [9] [a] are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines. Their name may be derived from "bla", meaning "opponent", and the "people"-denoting suffix "an". According to a 2021 genetic study, the Blaan people also have Papuan admixture. [11] A Blaan girl.
Maranao culture is centered around Lake Lanao, the largest lake in Mindanao, and second-largest and deepest lake in the Philippines. Lanao is the subject of various myths and legends. It supports a major fishery, and powers the hydroelectric plant installed on it; the Agus River system generates 70% of the electricity used by the people of ...