Pham Tran Hai My - Grade 12

DOCUMENTARY REFLECTION
DOCUMENTARY 1: KATUTUBO: Memory of Dances by Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism
After reviewing the material of the three indigenous groups on the theme of preserving their tribal
dance culture, convey deep customs, traditions and values. Those practices that have been completely
associated with their long history from the past until now, they are gradually disappearing and are
being forgotten due to the participation and contribution in the gathering of that rituals.
The first tribe to appear in the aforementioned documentary, the Tagbanua people are inhabitants of
Coron Island. Their dance is to honor the official ownership of their island by a government that was
not previously owned by them. After seven years of struggling to win their land, they finally received
the Domain Name Claim Certificate (CADC).
We then moved on to the case of the second indigenous tribe, both Bugkalot and Igorot. Those known
for their fierce name, the headhunters of the northern island of Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, are also the
Igorot of Kasibu. They have a very unique tradition, where you have to behead someone to become a
real man, only after they behead a person, they are allowed to marry. Although, this fact has died
because people no longer have to behead anyone because of the peace of their time. Instead, they
established a more artistic tradition involving wood carving skills, also the "cañao" ritual, in which
pigs and / or carabaos are stolen and sacrificed to give thanks and eat. Glad. But it could also be to
cure illnesses.
The third and last tribes, the Manobos of Mount Apo, were the first to be under the influence of
Christian missionaries who had not been mocked and criticized for thinking that they were mean and
shameful. Not only that, even the government went unnoticed in the plans they were promised to
pursue for Mount Apo, because those were not informed of anything. Even so, there was also the
appearance of the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) that built a geothermal plant on their
mountain. The people protested against it because it would take away part of their ancestral land
property. They made and sold brooms to make a living. Among all those events, they tried to revive
their traditions, which were their cultural dance and their tribal traditional wedding.

DOCUMENTARY 2: Ifugao – Bulubunduking Buhay – A Documentary Film

Ifugao people and their traditions live on the terraces of Luzon. In the first part of the
documentary, their rice cultivation is illustrated and explained. Surprisingly, the woman
depicted tends to be in the field for more work and is shown to have a more busy schedule as
you can see in the aforementioned film, everything they are showing. on the screen, they are
working, even the narrator keeps saying that while the man is doing something, the woman is
working and cleaning. But they have a very rich culture, in which they share many traditions
and customs, for example, pottery and the creation of clay figures. They also have sacrificial
rituals for many purposes, success in harvesting and protecting their crops and the ongoing
tubig resources and even deciding the time of marriage. The tribe has now been declared by
the elders as ineffective as the way it is used in places where the fields are not cared for by the
immediate reaction of the people, problems that are not even overcome because People lack
interest and they don't really do anything to solve it.