CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro (PIA) – National Indigenous Peoples (IP) Day is an important and significant day that commemorates the history, culture, and contributions of the IPs in the Philippines.

The Mayot family, part of the Hanunuo tribe of the Mangyans, lives in the uplands of Bulalacao, considered as the oldest settlement in the whole of Mindoro. It is the southernmost municipality of ...

The Mangyans of Mindoro are making a small sensation with their exhibit in the Ayala Museum. The exhibit began with a press conference on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 and it will end on Monday ...

This Mangyans of the island of Mindoro have a long history of being discriminated against and being forced off their land by business interests and security forces. During the pandemic and ...

The scripts of the Hanunuo and Northern Buhid Mangyans from Mindoro, and of the Tagbanua and Palaw’an tribes from Palawan have been declared as national cultural treasures in 1997, and inscribed ...

I ended my happy piece on it with “More another time.” Well, today is that “another time.” On behalf of the Alangan Mangyans of Oriental Mindoro, the Holy Spirit Sisters who have lived and worked with ...

As the school year draws to a close, and while environmental issues plague the ancestral domains of the Mangyans of Oriental Mindoro, it behooves government agencies to look into the needs — higher ...

Pagasa in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro. The Mangyan Alangan is one of the eight indigenous groups found on the island of Mindoro. It was a long conversation about their way of life and how they view ...

This booming town of Or. Mindoro is home to 80,000 residents and from which, at least 15,000 are Mangyans, the indigenous people of Mindoro Island. Most of the residents here depend on farming and ...

For him, this is the reason behind Mindoro’s forest degradation. Calderon clarified, however, that he is not putting the entire blame on the Mangyans. But some IP rights advocates, like lawyer ...