“Kon Madura diya nga duta, kami nga mga Tumandok Madura.”
– Evelita “Ka Mera” Giganto Gedoria, Tumandok leader
History is often treated like a dead museum piece. But among the Tumandok people of Panay the past lives on, not as a justification of an unjust social order or nostalgia for a fictitious past, but as a continuation of their people’s epic, their people’s struggle for land.
Read Tumandok epic: The Panay indigenous people’s struggle for land.
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About karlo mikhail
Karlo is a bibliophile, youth activist, flaneur, literature graduate, and citizen media advocate. A former student council leader and school paper editor, he is presently the Panay Regional Coordinator for Kabataan Partylist.
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