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Sep 30, 2020 · One hundred miles south of Manila and at the northern end of the Sulu Sea lies Mindoro, the seventh largest island in the Philippines. On the fertile coastal plains of this island live Tagalog and Bisayan farmers (Christian Filipinos) while in the rugged and largely unknown interior live at least eight different groups of pagan mountaineers known collectively as Mangyan.
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ricultural skill, the assiduous Hanunoo farmer cultivate a surprising number of food and other economic plants in their hillside swiddens ("kaingins," or fired clearings). The Hanunoo also garden, gather wild and protected forest foods, hunt, fish, trap; and raise chickens, pigs, and humped cattle (zebu). But swidden activi ties predominate.
people, and to prevent its eventual extinction, these were declared as National Cultural Treasures in 1997. Two years later, on October 6, 1999, they were inscribed in the Memory of the World Registers of UNESCO (United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization) (Postma, 2002). Late 1900s. Unearthed inscriptions.
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The Hanuno'o live inland from the southernmost tip of Mindoro. In the 1970s, the Hanuno'o numbered 6,000 out of a total of 20-30,000 Mangyan, already a minority on an island inhabited by 300,000 Tagalog and Visayan settlers. One 2000 estimate numbers the Hanuno'o 13,000. According to the 2000 census, 7,702 identified themselves as Hanuno'o in ...
Hanun ó o. The 7,000 Hanun ó o (Bulalakao, Hampangan, Hanono-o, Mangyan) live in an area of 800 square kilometers at the southern end of Mindoro Island (12 ° 30 ′ N, 121 ° 10 ′ E), in the Philippines. They speak an Austronesian language, and most are literate, using an Indic-derived script that they write on bamboo.
The Hanunoo live on Mindoro, a Philippine island located just to the southwest of the main island, Luzon. The Hanunoo are also known as the Bulalakao, the Hampangan, and the Mangyan. As recently as the 1950s, the Hanunoo were almost entirely isolated from modern civilization, but today they have begun to develop relationships with other peoples ...
