Story of Mindanao and Sulu in Question and Answer

1. A Story of Mindanao and Sulu
in Question and Answer
Mary Glydel P. Florin

2. Which portions of Mindanao, Sulu and
Palawan are traditionally considered the
ancestral homeland of the Islamized
people, and the Lumads?

3. Ancestral Homeland
Ancestral domain or ancestral lands refers to
the lands, territories and resources
traditionally occupied by a tribe or community
of people that is bound by ties of common
interests.
This does not only refer to the land itself but
also including the rivers, mountains, forests,
airspace above and all natural wealth
contained therein.

4. Nature of Occupancy
“Prior and uninterrupted occupancy”
It means that the tribe or community that
lives and uses a certain land premises which
has no owner will not be questioned for
staying.

5. INDIGENOUS
CHRISTIANS
nine provinces and four
cities
ISLAMIZED
PEOPLE
fifteen provinces
and seven cities
LUMAD
seventeen
provinces and
fourteen cities
1596-1896

6. Which portions are generally considered to
be the traditional territorial jurisdiction of the
Sulu Sultanate?

7. Southern
Palawan
Basilan
Sulu
Archipelag
oNorth
Borneo
(present
Samboanga
n
Tawi-Tawi
Sulu
Sultinate
1450 A.D

8. Which portion belonged to the
traditional territorial jurisdiction of the
Maguindanao Sultanate?

9. 1978- Sulu signed the treaty with
reduced the sultanate to the status of
a Spanish protectorate.
- To modern political scientists, both
the Sulu, and Maguindanao Sultanates
lost their de jure status but seemed to
have retained their de facto status.

10. Treaty of Paris, 1898
- Spain ceded the entire
archipelago including the sultanates of
Maguindanao and Sulu.

11. Which portions are generally
regarded as the ancestral land of the
Lumad peoples of Mindanao and
Sulu?

12. Determining the exact boundaries of
Lumad tribal territories at present
has become extremely difficult
because:

13. Censuses
1903- does not have comparative figures
at the municipal level of Muslims,
Lumads, and Christian populations.
1948- unavailable in most libraries in
Manila

14. 1960- “Pagan” was eliminated as one of
the classifications which is nearest to
determining the Lumad population
1975,1980, 1990- no longer have any
classification that will lead us to most
accurate figures on the indigenous
cultural communities.