Language The local dialect of the Pulangiyen is Binukid, which is widely spoken in Bendum to this day. The Visayan migrants have learned to speak the language while the Pulangiyen, in turn, have accepted the Visayan dialect as their second…
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Tribal leaders map the community’s rivers and streams Why did the Bendum community opt to have a separate ancestral domain claim? Do they have the legitimacy to claim an ancestral domain? These are some of the many questions that hounded…
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Bobby could have at least taken a bath. Or Ana could have chosen to change the clothes she had been wearing since Wednesday. It could have been possible Ryan didn’t have a new wound that the flies enjoyed. And Isyu…
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Maura Deloso Lipanda I was born in Busdi, and grew up here in Bendum since my mother died when I was only three years old. I grew up with my aunt, Erlinda Menaling. She took me in her care and…
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Bendum is located at the eastern part of the Upper Pulangi watershed in the northern part of the Pantaron Mountain Range. It is a village of about 300 people, 80% of whom are indigenous. In the mid-1980s, Bendum was officially…
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