DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 August) – “Ang bayan na hindi alam ang kasyasayan walang patutunguhan. Ang nasud nga wala nasayod sa iyang kasaysayan walay padulngan. A nation that does not k…
from the Manobo and Tagakaolo who opposed the increasing encroachment of Americans on their ancestral lands and conscript them as slaves in abaca plantations, killed Bolton and Christian on June 6, 1906.
Tiu, also author of “Davao 1890-1910: Conquest and Resistance in the Garden of the Gods,” said he hopes the younger Dabawyenos know that “atong hero is somebody who fights for the people,” not foreigners like Bolton who grabbed lands. “It’s a contested narrative nga wala pa sya naresolve . It is a continuing narrative as to how you look at martial law,” he said. Among the heroes he cited during that “period of repression” is Nanay Soling or Soledad Roa Duterte, mother of former Mayor and President Rodrigo Duterte, who was among the leaders of the Yellow Friday movement.
“That is how history is done because contest na siya. This is a field of contest, market of ideas, contest na siya,” Tiu said, adding that he always tells his students that the endpoint of studying history is “to know where we are going.”He noted that the Philippines’ poverty incidence of 30% has been there for so long. He said Indonesia’s is 11%, Vietnam’s is 7% while the Philippines is till at 26%.
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