Prof. Sol Dinlayan recently attended Unesco’s International Workshop on Quality Nominations for World Heritage Sites. Mt Kalatungan (and Mt Kitanglad) have have been in Unesco’s tentative list since 2024. This column is a resharing of her old article about her 2014 Kalatungan climb.
Kaamulan through the years: Stories of peace-making in street presentations
The annual street dancing competition draws the biggest crowd in Bukidnon’s month-long annual festival, the Kaamulan.
Tagtigusan: Preserving culture through storytelling
Preserving traditions is not just about remembering the past but about making it relevant in the present. In this opinion piece, Johana Sawayan shares her experience in facilitating the Tagtigusan, a writing program for her university’s tri-people youth.
Bridging Leadership: A legacy in a book
Anthropologist and indigenous peoples’ advocate Ma. Easterluna Canoy pens a tribute to her peers in the Asian Institute of Management’s Bridging Leadership program as she received her copy of its legacy book.
Exploring conflict-sensitive communication in Duterte’s ICC case
Conflict is unavoidable, but how we talk about it determines whether we deepen divisions or open paths to peace. In his column, communication and economics professor Walter Balane weighs in on the public discourse following former president Duterte’s ICC arrest.
Panendan Ta Sakub: The lore behind Malaybalay’s sacred site
Artist and musician Erlow Talatala retells the folklore behind the Sakub, Bukidnon tribe’s historical landmark near Malaybalay’s Sawaga River.
Datu Makapukaw: In memoriam
Anthropologist and indigenous peoples’ advocate Ma. Easterluna Canoy pens a short tribute in remembrance of Datu Makapukaw Adolino Saway, overall chieftain of the Kitanglad Council of Elders who passed last year.
TANGKULU: A Reflection of Indigenous Leadership
Local candidates have started filing their certificates of candidacies and mostly flashing the sign of ‘One Bukidnon’ in social media.
Can this scheme bring favor to Bukidnon?
MATERIAL CULTURE: The Living Witness of the Past
In this column, Prof. Dinlayan writes from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago as she examines Bukidnon artefacts in the museum’s collections from 1910.