Bukidnon Frontier Flashcards
(115 cards)
Magellan’s voyage, reached the Philippine archipelago
1521
Miguel Lopez de Legaspi established the first Spanish settlement in Cebu
1565
Bukidnon became open towards the migrants in Visayas
1870
Philippine revolution
1896
Natural way of the indigenous people to protect themselves against any form of influence or acculturation
Ex. Isolation
Pag-iilihan
Concept of pride, honor
Maratabat
People of the mountains
Bukidnon
People of the coast
Dumagats
Moved south away from the proximity to the north coast and out onto the grasslands
Settlers and ranchers
Locus points of two culture world
Towns and their hillside swidden plots
Like the Deccan Highlands of India, has been a region both of relative isolation and of transition between cultural centres.
Bukidnon Plateau
Rim of the plateau just inland from the sea
Macajalar bay
Two major river systems
Cagayan and Tagoloan
Rio Grande de Mindanao , which operates in the mountains of northeastern Bukidnon
Pulangi
One continuous series of rapids
Pulangi
Last Moro Datu on the river in 1902 going north into Manobo country “knew if no trail up the Rio Grande river”
Datu Masaloot
Leader of an American exploratory expedition from Cotabato to Cagayan de Oro
First Lieutenant R.O. Van Horn
Manobos collected___ which they sold to Datu Ali of Magindanao
Rubber and gutta-percha
Were primarily Maranaos concentrated in the West along the Lanao border
Muslims
racially similar to Visayans but linguistically and culturally distinct
Bukidnons and Manobos
Lived along the middle Pulangi and Mulita south to Cotabato
Manobos
Lived in the northeast along the Tagoloan and upper Pulangi rivers and to a lesser extent on the upper Cagayan bordering Lanao
Bukidnons
Fortress high in the mountains from which they stood ready to repel invading dumagats
Nalandangan
Equate the trek inland with liberation from slavery by the Magindanao to their south
Manobos