Introducing: The Kasiyana Music Video Series

Indigenous music, culture and heritage has great power to build community solidarity in these difficult times. Mobilizing this, Partners for Indigenous Knowledge Philippines offer the Kasiyana Music Video series, featuring the songs of Salidummay Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera (DKK). The songs highlight Cordillera indigenous values relaying messages of hope, collective action, and care for each other and the environment. At this …

New Project: Aquaponics as alternative livelihood for the small scale miners of Benguet

By Ana Kinja Tauli Partners for Indigenous Knowledge Philippines (PIKP), with financial support from the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is launching a new development project to construct and establish an aquaponics farm as alternative livelihood for displaced small scale miners. The MoU for the project was signed by PIKP Secretary of the Board Maria Elena Regpala and Czech …

TAWID Indigenous Knowledge Learning Festival

By Judy Cariño-Fangloy On August 28-31, 2019, 100 indigenous educators from schools and communities converged for the celebration of TAWID Indigenous Knowledge Learning Festival. In attendance were Department of Education (Dep Ed) officials with key roles in Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd), teachers and principals from public and private schools, state colleges and universities. Equally represented were NGOs, peoples organizations and …

ON INDIGENOUS HEALTH

By Dr. Penelope A. Domogo, MD Sagada, Mountain Province Speech delivered at the TAWID Indigenous Knowledge Learning Festival August 29, 2019 Thank you to the organizers of this Indigenous Knowledge Learning Festival for inviting me- Chancellor Raymundo Rovillos of UP Baguio, Jacqueline Carino of the Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Maria Elena Regpala of the Partners for …

A Job Well Done

Judy Cariño-Fangloy It all started with a promise, first between us and Sir Pablo Khayog, then principal of Alejo M. Pacalso Memorial National High School. We reached an agreement that we would work together to produce a storybook to be used in the Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) of the school. Next came the promise between us and the teachers who …

DADDAD-AT ËD ITOGON: THE BOOK IS OUT!

Daddad-at is a Kankana-ëy term meaning storytelling. It is a way of sharing information, catching up, or passing on knowledge and values through the telling of stories.Daddad-at is done whenever there is a chance for people to gather, share news and tell stories to find out what is happening around the community such as special occasions like weddings, wakes and …

IT’S ABOUT TIME

Book Review: Heirloom Recipes of the CordilleraBy Padmapani L. Perez There are at least two reasons this book is important:1. It’s about time, and2. It’s about time. First, it’s about time such a book is published: a collection of recipes gathered from the hearth of the Cordillera region. For what does the act of publishing do? Beyond documentation, the act …

Book Review: Heirloom Recipes of the Cordillera

By Rita PapeyRegional Nutrition Program CoordinatorNational Nutrition Council Cordillera Administrative Region Thank you  and congratulations to the group that conceptualized, planned, and prepared the book. This is a milestone in the preservation of knowledge of the Cordillera Culture particularly diet and nutrition. This book contains the indigenous, age old recipes of the Cordillera passed from generation to generation and thus …