A STORY OF MINDANAO

AND SULU (Q&A)

ANGELICA B. ALVIZO
BSMETE V
 RUDY B. RODIL
Historian and Retired Professor
MSU-IIT
 INDIGENOUS MIGRANT
Present Peoples of Mindanao and Sulu
Indigenous A Migrants and Their
Indigenous B Descendants
 20% believers
Generally known of as Moro
Islam, theor
Muslims
more recently Bangsa Moro
or Islamized groups

Molbog/Melebugnon
Iranun/Ilanun/Ilanum, and
Palawani - partlyKalagan,
Jama Mapun, Islamized
groups of Palawan
Indigenous Kalibugan, Maguindanao/
Maguindanawon,
Badjao - from Sulu Archipelago
Maranao, Sama,longSangil,
A by virtue of their
Tausug,
stay in theand Yakan
Sulu seas
traditional
 5% Lumad

Ata/Ata Manobo, Arumanen

Manobo, Bagobo, Banwaon, Blaan,
Bukidnon, Dibabawon, Dulangan
Manobo, Higaunon, Ilianen Manobo,
Jangari, Lambagian (Teduray +
Manobo), Livunganen, Kulamanen,
Indigenous Mamanwa, Mandaya,
Mangguwangan, Manobo, Mansaka,
Manuvu, Matigsalug, Pulangiyen
A Manobo, Subanen, Tagabawa,
Tagakaolo, Talainged, Tboli, Teduray,
Ubo Manobo, Umayamnon
Visayan-speaking
Chavacanos of Zamboanga
peoples
in Northern and Eastern
Free native people
Mindanao of Ternate,
who eventually
Moluccas
became brought by
Christian
Spaniard to Manila as
communities
Christian soldiers. First settled
in Ermita/Bagumbayan
Davaweo, Butuanon,
to Barra de Maragondon and
Camiguinon/Kinamigin,
then Indigenous
later some wereMisamisnon,
assigned to
Cagayanon,
Zamboanga integrating
Iliganon, Ozomisnon, to the B
majority population.
Dapitanon, Dipolognon,
Chavacano, and Surigaonon
 Settlers

Migrants and 70% of the total population

their Migrants rom Luzon and

Visayas
Descendants
Majority population
since 1948
 MORO
became a source of pride in itself
branding of Spanish colonizers to
and corrected as simply daring and
Muslims which means savage and
tenacious in the defense of their
treacherous
homeland and faith.
 Bannered by Moro
BANGSAMORO National Liberation
Font (MNLF) in 1972
Includes not only the
indigenous tribes but also
Muslims, Christians, and
those still adhering to
traditional religious
values - all those who
share common aspiration
and political destiny.
 LUMAD
Paganos
a Cebuano Bisayan word which means
Wild / Uncivilized / Non-Christian Tribes
indigenous which has become the
National Cultural Minorities/ Cultural
collective name for the thirty or more
Minorities/ Minorites
ethnolinguistic groups.
Nitibo
Taga-bundok/ Katutubo
Cultural Communities
 The Moro, the Lumad, and other
settler inhabitants of Mindanao,
Sulu, and Palawan share a
common origin in the Malayo-
Polynesian family of languages and
also their physical appearances.
 Similar folk tradition
Dumalandalan Gumabon-gabon
Tabunaway Mili-rilid
Coming of Islam in MINSUPALA
Islam first arrived in Sulu archipelago towards
the end of the 13th century, estimated to be
in 1280, brought by Tuan Mashaika.

Muslim missionary Karim ul-Makhdum

Rajah Baginda introduced the political

element in the Islamization process during
the beginning of 15th century.

His son-in-law Abubakar became his

successor and started the Sulu sultanate.
 Islam came with trade

Muslim merchants or missionaries

expansion movement moved toward
South East Asia to Malayo-Indonesian
region and Mindanao and Sulu were
Islamized.
Extent of Islamization to the recipient
communities
Islam was the first to bring monotheism to
the people of the Philippines. This
centralized system of life introduced by
the forces of Islam and trade provided
the greatest source of strength from the
333 years of struggle against Spanish
colonialism.
 portion of territory traditionally
Ancestral
occupied by a tribe or a
homeland community of people bound
by ties of common interests

1596-1896

Islamized peoples 15 provinces

and 7 cities
Lumad 17 provinces and 14
cities
Indigenous Christians 9
provinces and 4 cities.
 Traditional Territorial Jurisdiction
of the Sulu Sultanate
Traditional
Sulu SultanateIslamized
Territorial started formally
Tribes in 1450 A.D.
which included
Tausug, Sama,
the Sulu
Jama
Archipelago,
Mapun, North
Jurisdiction of
Bornea/Sabah,
Molbog/Melebugnon,
Basilan, Southern
Palawani,Palawan,
Yakan,
the Sulu
Samboangan, and
Kalibugan
the western portion of
Sultanate Zamboanga Peninsula.
Non-Islamized Tribes
Badjao, Batak, Tagbanua, Subanen
 Traditional Territorial Jurisdiction
of the Sulu Sultanate

Treaty of Paris in 1898 marked the Sulu

Sultans submission to
Bates agreement in 1899 American sovereignty
Traditional Territorial Jurisdiction
of the Maguindanao Sultanate
Islamized tribes
Maguindanao,
Most Iranun,
extensive territory
Sangil,
in the reignKalagans
of Sultan
Kudarat Lumad(1619-1671)
tribes
Subanen, Teduray, Ubo,
He was
Tboli, acknowledged
Bla-an, Dulangan,
the paramaount
Lambagian, lord of
Manobo of
the Pulangi. Bagobo,
Cotabato,
Tagakaolo, Ata,
Mandaya, Mansaka,
Higaunon
Traditional Territorial Jurisdiction
of the Maguindanao Sultanate

Spain ceded the entire

archipelago to the US for
$20 million. Moro peoples
right over their ancestral
domain was substantially
eroded by the
implementation of Amerian
public land laws.
 Mamanwa
Subanen Zamboanga
Lake Mainit to
Tago
Peninsula
river
Ancestral land Mandaya- Davao Oriental
Mansaka,
Higaunon Dibabawon,
walo ha
of the Lumad Mangguwangan
talugan Davao
Peoples of Sur
Ata,
Manobo
Bagobo,
Agusan
Tagakaolo-
river
Mindanao and Kalagan,
valley, Surigao,
Bla-anSouth
Davao
Sulu Norte
Bukidnon, Davao,
Batak,
Sarangani,
Tagbanua
Sultan -
Palawan
Kudarat, Cotabato