Win-ay Oyonan walks for hours and crosses rivers to register nearly 1,000 fellow Mangyan or 10% of the 9,000 of the indigenous population of Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro ORIENTAL MINDORO, Philippines – ...

Anya Insik Postma did not know how great her Dutch anthropologist-father has been until she started to work with the nongovernment Mangyan Heritage Center Inc. (MHC) in the City of Calapan in Oriental ...

Juanito Guarde’s weathered face beams with pride while looking at the five frames of college diplomas hanging on the wall of his house at the foot of Mt. Halcon in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro province.

MANILA, Philippines — It is very easy to judge someone we do not know. This seems to be the case for some people in the Philippines, which is home to around 100 million people, 12%-15% of whom are ...

Generous, resilient and peace-loving — these words best describe the Mangyans of Mindoro. Their rich heritage took center stage in “Buklod Mangyan”, an exhibit mounted by Editha Buñag, Imelda Elido, ...

In Paitan, there live gentle people who know not the ways of war, people the color of clay, shy and swift like the deer, mountain-sturdy, brothers and sisters to the vanishing tamaraw. I wrote that in ...

IN the Philippines, when the rest of the population goes to sleep, a reclusive community of indigenous people prepares for another restless night of fear and uncertainty. Far away in the dense, dark ...

To help the Mangyan community generate its own resources for the sustainability of their programs and activities, there are livelihood programs like poultry, swine raising and handicraft making. They ...

Everybody and his/her cousins are trotting out vignettes about the recently departed former President Benigno Aquino III to show their, alas, belated and posthumous gratitude for his brand of ...