MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte, a year ago, threatened to bomb Lumad schools—volunteer-run schools for indigenous peoples' communities in remote parts of Mindanao—for ...

The Lumad are an indigenous group composed of more ... they should have in mind that all of it are symbols of a broken vow. That is if they had paid attention to the animated film at the start ...

When soldiers parked the tank in front of her lumad school in North Cotabato, Kat-kat knew it was time to leave her village. “All I wanted to do was study,” Kat-kat, 15, and now in Grade 10 ...

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), hundreds of Lumad, an umbrella term for multiple different indigenous communities, have taken shelter at an evacuation camp in Davao City — Mindanao’s la ...

As the world deals with a disease, the young Lumad in the Bakwit School turn to their culture and community for support Since the COVID-19 lockdown in Metro Manila was announced mid-March ...

The 61-year-old Lumad from Gigaquit ... Their ancestral land, or yutang kabilin as she calls it, is a symbol of her family’s long lineage. Through the years, however, Valeria and other Mamanwa ...

There seems to be confusion on the number of indigenous peoples (IPs), or lumad, in the Philippines. According to the International Labor Organization, we have anywhere from 15 million to 20 million ...

Aside from deaths and arrests, several lumad schools ran by nongovernment institutions were also targeted by government and paramilitary forces, Kalumaran added. “It is a form of ethnocide ...

SAN AGUSTIN, Surigao del Sur — “Lumad” who fled their homes in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, for fear of increasing military presence were still afraid to return to their communities even after ...

MANILA, Philippines — Lumads are not the root of trouble over their ancestral lands, a Lumad leader said Friday after President Rodrigo Duterte told representatives of indigenous peoples ...

The chair of the governing council of the Lumad Mindanaw People’s Federation (LMPF), Jimid Mansayagan, has expressed deep concern that the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will dislocate many lumad ...