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The Lumad are a group of Austronesian indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or "indigenous". The term is short for Katawhang Lumad (Literally: "indigenous people"), the autonym officially adopted by the delegates of the Lumad Mindanao Peoples Federation (LMPF) founding assembly on 26 June 1986 at ...
Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay (died 20 November 2023) was a Filipino Lumad leader and environmentalist. She was the first and only female chieftain in the history of the Manobo people and has been described as "Mother of the Lumads". [1] She was an advocate of indigenous peoples' rights and had been a defender of Manobo ancestral lands and the ...
Okir. Detail of a panolong with a naga motif, from the National Museum of Anthropology. Okir, also spelled okil or ukkil, is the term for rectilinear and curvilinear plant-based designs and folk motifs that can be usually found among the Moro and Lumad people of the Southern Philippines, as well as parts of Sabah.
The Suludnon, [2] also known as the Panay-Bukidnon, Pan-ayanon, or Tumandok, [3] are a Visayan group of people who reside in the Capiz - Antique - Iloilo mountainous area of Panay in the Visayan islands of the Philippines. They are one of the two only mostly non-Christianized group of Visayan language -speakers in the Western Visayas, along ...
Tasaday. The Tasaday people in their homeland, the last primal rainforest of Mindanao. The Tasaday (tɑˈsɑdɑj) are an indigenous peoples of the Lake Sebu area in Mindanao, Philippines. They are considered to belong to the Lumad group, along with the other indigenous groups on the island. They attracted widespread media attention in 1971 ...
Sama-Bajau is a collective term, referring to several closely related indigenous people who consider themselves a single distinct bangsa ("ethnic group" or "nation"). [6][11] It is generally accepted that these groups of people can be termed Sama or Bajau, though they never call themselves Bajau in the Philippines.
The Philippines has 110 enthnolinguistic groups comprising the Philippines' indigenous peoples; as of 2010, these groups numbered at around 14–17 million persons. [2] Austronesians make up the overwhelming majority, while full or partial Negritos scattered throughout the archipelago. The highland Austronesians and Negrito have co-existed with ...
Austronesian peoples, Lumad, and Sama-Bajau peoples. A Tboli sculpture, on display in the Tboli museum near Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines. A Tboli rural residence. The Tboli people[2] (IPA: ['tʔbɔli]) are an Austronesian indigenous people of South Cotabato in southern Mindanao in the Philippines.