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Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Mindanao" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The name Lumad grew out of the political awakening among tribes during the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.It was advocated and propagated by the members and affiliates of Lumad-Mindanao, a coalition of all-Lumad local and regional organizations that formalized themselves as such in June 1986 but started in 1983 as a multi-sectoral organization.
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 ...
The Malay kingdoms interacted and traded with various tribes throughout the islands. In the 13th century, the arrival of Muslim missionaries such as Makhdum Karim in Tawi-Tawi initiated the conversion of the native population to Islam. Trade between other sultanates in what are now Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia helped establish and entrench ...
The indigenous peoples of Palawan are a diverse group of both indigenous tribes and lowland groups that historically migrated to the island of Palawan and its outlying islands. These ethnolinguistic groups are widely distributed to the long strip of mainland island literally traversing Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Listed below are specifically ...
[1] [2] Locals are themselves often referred to as a "tripeople", [3] [4] composed of indigenous peoples, Moros and descendants of twentieth-century settlers from the Visayas and Luzon. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Cebuano is the lingua franca of the Davao Region, used by its inhabitants of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds to communicate with each other.
Maguindanaon residents of both Soccsksargen and the rest of Mindanao can speak and understand Hiligaynon (main Visayan language in the former) and to the some extent, Cebuano and Ilocano along with their own native language since Mindanao (particularly in Soccsksargen) is a melting pot of cultures, resulting from southward migration from Luzon ...
In political contexts, however, the Cebuano term "Lumad" ("native") has become an umbrella term for the various polytheistic peoples of Mindanao. In ethnographic and linguistic literature on Mindanao, their name is variously spelt Tboli, T'boli, Tböli, Tagabili, Tagabilil, Tagabulul and Tau Bilil. Their endonym is Tboli.