The B'laans of Tampakan [part 1]

ourphilippines.tv The B'laans are an indigenous group of people who mainly live in the south part of South Cotabato in the mountains of Tampalakan. The tribe is also called Blaan, Bira-an, Baraan, Vilanes, and Bilanes. They are notable for adapting the life of modern Filipinos while maintaining their own traditions and rituals. The B'laans' primary source of livelihood is through agriculture; growing rice, corn, sugarcane, papaya and other root crops. The crops are also used in exchange for other necessities and tools.

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Proud to be blaan

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I'm proud to blaan

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I love my tribe blaan

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The territory of the Bla-an was sliced into by four provinces: Davao del Sur, Sarangani Province, South Cotabato and Cotabato. Like the rest of the 32 other lumad elsewhere in Mindanao, the Bla-an are victim of the state's sponsored-settlement programs wherein thousands of land less settlers from Luzon and Visayas were shipped into the Bla-an land. The effect of that unregulated transmigration still lingers today: neglect, poverty. And Pres. Aquino III never mention them in his recent SONA

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I love it pinoy brother

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b,laan de lagad. heheh

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I pround to blaan

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Kandayen

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Blaan not B'laan, not Bla-an...

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its BLAAN not B'LAAN...