Sa Bahandi ta Bendum (2020; 2026)
Sa Bahandi ta Bendum is a storybook of the APC school that tells the story of how people perceive their treasure (wealth). For the community, true wealth is the unity found in sharing life’s benefits and ancestral lands. It is not the physical extraction from the land or its degradation.
Tuus: Reflected experiences in identity and belonging by Pulangiyēn youth (2025)
Belonging is the foundation of community life and cultural integrity. For the Pulangiyēn youth, it is a source of identity, strength, and hope. It connects them to their ancestors, their communities, and their Creator, grounding them in the wisdom of the past while preparing them for the challenges of the future. This sense of belonging is essential to their identity, to the vitality of their communities, and to the integrity of their cultural heritage.
The Generation Canopy Walk 2050 (2025)
This is going to be a story of the land the youth of today will share with their children. Part of this area is envisioned to become the Generation Canopy Walk 2050 because all the 20 pillar species are planted here. The focus is on today’s generation – Jason Menaling’s generation – who will be in their 60s by 2050 and who can see with their children what they have done to sustain their gaup daw kaguna (ancestral lands and culture).
Relationships in sustaining community water (2024)
As an indigenous community, the Pulangiyēn respect the water source as it gives life and sustain local needs. Water is obtained from the source which is the regenerating forest. Having good relations with the environment for the water, the community ensures that the water returned to the environment is not polluting or contaminating downstream.
Agroecology-Organic Farming-Traditional Farming (2024)
The garden at APC is not typical of a traditional farm given its straight plots and paths, but works with many of the traditional practices. The intention is to produce food, other than carbohydrates, for use in the dalēpaan. The farm is beside one of the little tributaries of Kiasu River. It is also located within the broader forest and bamboo environment which is more protective of this type of ecosystem that we call agroecology, than if the garden were surrounded by open maize fields. The garden follows the basic principles of organic farming and does not use chicken dung from the commercial poultry farms around, given the chemicals and feeds used. The pest sprays are simple organic concoctions.
Education open to the mountains (2024)
An “education open to the mountains” encompasses a holistic understanding of culture and goes beyond the language and the dances to include lifestyle, livelihood, and resource management. The community’s sustainable practices and deep knowledge of the landscape ensure that resources are carefully managed. This reflects an integrated understanding of how to balance the impacts of livelihoods on the environment. When traveling across the landscape. there is also a care and respect for the rivers, the rocks, and cultural areas for meeting.
Forest Farm and Leadership in the Margins (FFLM): Integrated approach to sustainability in the uplands
Sustaining the old corner forest with the new (2023)
Experiencing new life are these remnant trees from the time of logging 50 years ago that was followed by farming on five areas, and pioneer species have since grown up creating a light shade and protection area that many birds use as a passageway to the larger ridge forest.
The Synodal Journey of the Pulangiyēn Youth (2022)
The booklet is a simple celebration of the journey of the indigenous Pulangiyēn youth in Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines at Balay Laudato Si’, a culture and ecology center in the heart of Mindanao, Philippines, as they shared their dreams and gathered to act together through three activities: art activities that depicted how they would give life to the Laudato Si’ Goals, discovering hope, love, and faith that form them in life along with personal trials and hardships, and reflections on their cultural context that lead to self-awareness and action.
Indigenous Peoples and Laudato Si' (2019)
This document is the Pulangiyen's reflection on the message of Laudato Si' in the context of their community.
The Pulangiyēn edition can be accessed here.
Culture and Integrity from the Ground: Workbook (2019) -Seeking a deeper insight into cultural integrity, relating to basic dignity, indigenous knowledge, and practices of sustainable land use management
This workbook is a collection of inputs from speakers during the 2019 Culture and Integrity from the Ground Forum on the occasion of the International Year of Indigenous Languages. (DOWNLOAD)
Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center: Advancing Education in the Margins (2019)
For the Pulangiyen community, their gaup refers both to the community and the land, and it is the gaup that is the context of learning. Its effective self-management is the goal in education, along with the relations that sustain the management. Living in the broader margins of society, the Pulangiyen community offers a cultural learning program that emerges from their way of life and the need for greater sustainability and opportunity. The APC culture-based education offers three main programs and three international collaborative programs explained in this brochure. (In Spanish | French)
More than just a document of a case study or a project, this publication wishes to share the experience of duma, of accompanying the Pulangiyen as they seek a way forward for themselves and for their children.
Learning Sustainable Life (2010)
This book tells the story of how the Pulangiyen community in Mindanao is working to save their culture and environment and how this local initiative is contributing to the growing Asian experience on multilingual education programs monitored by UNESCO in collaboration with our Department of Education.
FOREST FACES: Hopes and Regrets in Philippine Forestry
Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC); Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO-UN); Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP)
This publication provides an evocative re-telling of personal experiences and reflections enabling better comprehension of the struggles, stories and tragedies associated with the changes and loss of Philippine forest.
DUMA: A Decade of Engagement in Bendum (2004)
A chronicle of ESSC involvement in Sitio Bendum from 1992 to 2004
Magkinanau Kuy: Pagbasa daw sa Pagsulat (1998)
This is a series of textbooks published in 1998 for the students of the then Cultural Education Program in Bendum. Magkinanau Kuy: Pagsulat daw Pagbasa means "Let Us Learn: Reading and Writing."
TUÉN HU UYAG: Strengthening education and life skills of indigenous youth
Tuén hu Uyag, or learning and living, is a program for indigenous youth in the Upper Pulangi, aged 15 to 29 who may or may not have finished basic schooling but are interested in learning with others a range of technical and social skills.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UPLANDS
In the uplands of Bukidnon, the youth holds the hope for many indigenous communities. They are the next generation leaders and teachers, next in line in using indigenous knowledge and keeping indigenous values to sustain their culture as they engage with others locally, nationally and globally.
Philippine Culture and Ecosystems (ESSC, 1998)
Map of Philippine cultural communities and the forest and coastal ecosystems that they depend on while the back of the map provides a text on the challenges faced.
MEDIA ARTICLES
Book on education among Bukidnon Pulangiyens launched
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 August) – The Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center or APC launched a book on the Bukidnon Pulangiyen tribe titled “Learning Sustainable Life” in three cities recently.