KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 3 July)—This year, the Manobo Apao Descendants Ancestral Domain Claim of Mt. Apo (MADADMA) celebrates its 20th anniversary.
KIDAPAWAN CITY —This year, the Manobo Apao Descendants Ancestral Domain Claim of Mt. Apo celebrates its 20th anniversary.MADADMA is the ancestral domain claim organization that manages the large ancestral domain in the Kidapawan barangays of Ilomavis and Balabag and the Magpet barangay of Kawayan.
The very origins of Kidapawan, in can be argued, lie in land security for the Monuvu. Kidapawan’s first officials were tribal leaders, led by the Municipal District President, Datu Siawan Ingkal. This was the experience of the descendants of Apao, who were also among the first to make a move to have their rights over their ancestral land formally recognized in a way different from private titling. I have yet to locate documents to shed further light on this, but the clan’s oral tradition has it that Datu Obun Umpan filed a petition before the Philippine President to release to the clan an area of around 1,500 hectares in the national park. The petition was ignored.
Drilling began in 1987, but the project gained final approval from then president Fidel Ramos in 1993. The project saw tribal resistance from its earliest inceptions . A particularly defining moment of the opposition took place in 1989, when a group of leaders from different tribes performed what they called a Diyandi, a grand ritual declaring war on whoever would harm Mt. Apo.
With control over their land secure, the descendants of Apao then proceeded with the struggle for cultural renewal . The campaign to secure the CADT only succeeded because it took place with a strong cultural component, and the embers of those cultural fires still burn today.
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