This music video relays lessons from the people’s experience with traditional small-scale mining and large-scale destructive mining in the Cordillera. Balitok, guardian spirit of the gold, reminds us all: Stop the greed. Protect the land. Respect nature. Have a meaningful 37th Cordillera Day everyone! April 24, 2021
Category: Kasiyana Series
Kafagway
As we commemorate Ibaloy Day on February 23, we are reminded of our bittersweet history of ancestral land rights dispossession and assertion in Baguio City, the erstwhile Kafagway. This story about the indigenous Ibaloy of Baguio is told through the family history of Mateo and Bayosa Cariño in the song Kafagway. A call to other indigenous families: Let us document, …
The Gift
Indigenous knowledge teaches us about sustainable use of nature and conservation of biodiversity. Just as it is necessary to secure indigenous peoples’ ownership and guardianship of their land, territories and resources, it is also important to protect indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. Here is a music video that captures what indigenous knowledge is all about. It urges us …
Kordilyera
November 2020 Happy National Children’s Month, kakailian! Here is a song for our children that teaches us about caring for the environment and defending our homeland, the Cordillera mountain range. Let’s share it, learn it and sing along!
Pagay
October marks #WorldFoodDay, International Day of #RuralWomen, Peasant Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Month in the Philippines. No better time than now to feature this song ‘Pagay’ (#Rice) about traditional rice-growing practices of Cordillera indigenous farmers. Here is a meaningful quote about the value of growing rice from Marcus Bangit’s oggayam (a traditional Kalinga chant): “Arig na ket maysa a pagay,Binaddekan …
Kullilipan
Kullilipan, a traditional Tinggian tune from the province Abra, performed by Salidummay DKK, with lyrics that speak of Kaigorotan – free, strong and resilient people of the Cordillera.Let us listen and learn as the Philippines observes Indigenous Peoples Month this October.
Danum
Today we present the song Danum by Salidummay DKK in solidarity with the #DefendCordilleraPH global campaign. The song recalls indigenous values of community unity and perseverance to achieve the common good.
Daga A Nagtaudan (Ancestral Land)
We mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples with this preview of Kasiyana music video series featuring the music of Salidummay Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera (DKK) and photos of Indigenous peoples from the north to the south of the Philippines. We draw strength from our indigenous values in the belief that we shall overcome this crisis. Kasiyana. Music and …
Bangon Ka Ina
On this 111th celebration of #BaguioDay, let us listen to music of Baguio’s indigenous peoples. “Bangon Ka Ina” is a traditional Ibaloy song, here performed by Salidummay DKK, that narrates the story of an Ibaloy hunter who comes into conflict with a Spanish soldier. It is the second music video in the Kasiyana series
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 …