Though ‘ancestral domain’ was not yet coined in the prewar period, the Bagobos were already insisting on ownership of lands belonging to their tribe which the government declared as ‘public lands’ …
Though ‘ancestral domain’ was not yet coined in the prewar period, the Bagobos were already insisting on ownership of lands belonging to their tribe which the government declared as ‘public lands’ but were let to Japanese firms and subleased by the companies to Japanese farmers.
The Bagobos did not agree with the ruling that tribal lands, under a law, would be passed on to outsiders, notably the Japanese, for this would deprive them of the right to develop the farms that traditionally belonged to them. Often the discord results in violent reactions., in its August 9, 1922, issue, reported: ‘Out of these quarrels have come the Bagobo killings of Japanese—sometimes over as trivial a thing as single banana stalk.
‘Having so much trouble over the Bagobos’ claims, the State induced many of them to select lands and register them several years ago. This make them, in the eyes of the law, good property-owning citizens; they were allowed to put up the necessary bond, 100 pesos per gun, and to purchase shotguns, which they could use for killing wild boar and deer. But some of the guns were used on the Japanese settlers.
But the natives did not budge and were not content with superficial pledges. They would only agree to a truce if a settlement was made. As a compromise, the government proposed that despite the flimsiness of their claim, it was willing ‘to pay them nominally for the land and set them back farther into the hills, where the march of civilization is remorselessly crowding them.’
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