Midterm

Question 1

When it comes to marriage these people is just having a little banquet and preaching to their child. There is no ceremony that the parent of the bride and groom talk only, and their child instantly become married.

Answer 1

Dumagat

Question 2

Surrounded by the lush rice terraces within the Cordillera region, the municipality of Natonin is home of this indigenous group.

Answer 2

Balangao

Question 3

This tribe living in one community is consists of two social classes,the rich called Kadangyan and the poor referred to as Kodo.

Answer 3

Applai

Question 4

Comprised a large group in the Cagayan Valley region and are mostly found in Central Isabela, Nueva Vizaya, Quirino, and Cagayan. Most of them can also speak Ilocano, the lingua franca of Northern Luzon; their language is closely related to Agta, Atta, Ibanag, Isneg, Itawis, Malaweg, and Yogad.

Answer 4

Gaddang

Question 5

This a small ethnic group living in the municipalities of Bambang and Nueva Vizcaya, as well as in Dupax Sur, Quirino province. Their ethnic communities show a decline in population, with only around 12,600 members on record.

Answer 5

Isinai

Question 6

Also known as Kalanguya (Kalangoya) inhabit the provinces of Benguet in the Cordillera Administrative Region as well as in Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, and Pangasinan. This ethnolinguistic group was formerly named as Keley’I, Kalanggutan, Yatukka or Mandek’ey

Answer 6

Ikalahan

Question 7

Are a proud people with proto-Malayan features and with a strong social structure enabled them, as a group, to integrate with the main body politic while retaining much of their indigenous customs, beliefs, and values.

Answer 7

Bagobo

Question 8

Tucked away in the Sierra Madre Mountain range, primarily in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, Isabela, Quirino, and Aurora. The name of the tribe is derived from the root word kalot meaning “interwoven,” although the tribe is more popularly known to outsiders as Ilongots, meaning “headhunters.”

Answer 8

Bugkalot/Ilongot

Question 9

Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Apayao in northern Luzon. Their population is spread over 10 municipalities and 137 barrios, and each village has its own distinct dialect, some of which are Sadanga, Guinaang Bontoc, and Bayyu

Answer 9

Bontoc

Question 10

It inhabit southeastern Benguet in the Cordillera Administrative Region; they are concentrated in Kabayan, Bukod, Tuba, Itogon, Tublay, La Trinidad, Sablan, and Atok. Like the Southern Kankanaey, they are also called Benguet. Their language has a linguistic sound that is close to Pangasinense, the language of Pangasinan Province, possibly due to the free movement of the natives of Pangasinan in the pre-Spanish era

Answer 10

Ibaloi

Question 11

Both men and women traditionally covered their bodies with tattoos, although the men were only allowed to after having killed enemies in inter-tribal conflicts. Women wear bright red hand-woven skirts and used distinctive pieces of snake skeleton as hairpieces.

Answer 11

Bontoc

Question 12

One of the oldest inhabitants of Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, can be found in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya. The term originated from i (“people of”) and bannag (river), which pretty much describes where they chose to settle.

Answer 12

Ibanag

Question 13

Their residences are elevated and supported with tall posts of wood or bamboo that include a removable ladder that can be drawn up day and/or night to avoid intruders or enemies.

Answer 13

Gaddang

Question 14

The household,hampangabungan, is the basic social and economic unit of this ethnic group, consisting of the husband, wife, their children, and, if any, elderly parents of both sides residing in the same house, simultaneously, sharing the day-to-day tasks.

Answer 14

Ikalahan

Question 15

“MAEDUP” word means “mabuhay”.

Answer 15

Dumagat

Question 16

This ethnic group have society recognized two classes of people: The rich, baknang or kadangyan, and the poor, biteg or abiteng; the distinction, however, oft times difficult to determine.

Answer 16

Ikalahan

Question 17

The the first known group of people who lives in Dingalan.

Answer 17

Dumagat

Question 18

The earliest residents of Apayao Province (Cordillera Administrative Region) and one of the remaining tribes in Luzon, a small ethnoliguistic group inhabiting the wide mountains of the area.

Answer 18

Isneg

Question 19

The Spaniards referred to them as los Apayaos (referring to the river along which they live) and los Mandayas (taken from the Isneg term meaning “upstream”). Isnag, the Isneg language, is spoken by around 300,000 people. They also speak Ilocano.

Answer 19

Isneg

Question 20

Also known as the “people from across the river” is quite related to the Ibanags.

Answer 20

Itawes

Question 21

The type of marriage the community has is the arrange marriage, where the boy’s family offers a “dote” (dowry) to the girl’s family to be accepted.

Answer 21

Itawes

Question 22

Inhabiting the Batanes, a chain of small islands at the northernmost point of the Philippines

Answer 22

Ivatan

Question 23

The ancients spoke a language, Chirin nu Ibatan, or simply Ivatan; an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands was characterized by the dominant use of the letter “v”, as in valuga, vakul, and vanuwa. In addition, the dialect was unique to a specifc island: The Northern dialect spoken in Basco, the capitol; Itbayat in Itbayat Island; and Southern Sabtang in Sabtang Island.

Answer 23

Ivatan

Question 24

People are a minority group in the Philippines. They live dispersed among several larger people groups. Instead of traditional thatched houses, many now live in modern dwellings that have two or more rooms.

Answer 24

Iwak

Question 25

Unique to their culture is their stone houses adopted from the Spaniards and made of limestone; the walls were as thick as one-meter and able to withstand the terminal passage of typhoons in the Philippines.

Answer 25

Ivatan

Question 26

Have a reputation for being “the strong people of the Cordilleras.”

Answer 26

Kalinga

Question 27

The kinship system is said to extend up to the close relatives of both sides of the family (bilateral). They worship nature spirits and their ancestors, for whom they have a very high regard. Rituals are performed during important milestones of their life cycle, and for the agricultural cycles. Farming is done on man-made rice terraces.

Answer 27

Kakanaey

Question 28

In the scenic mountainous Benguet dwells the people, a tribe that takes pride in their artistic dance performances—most notably iton-dak and tenebteb-ak music and the tay-chek dance—and showcases their continued fight to ascertain that their traditions will live through the modern world.

Answer 28

Karao

Question 29

This group is concentrated about the municipality of Rizal, the general area formerly known as Malaueg before the twentieth century in the province of Cagayan, and west about Conner in Kalinga-Apayao.

Answer 29

Malueg

Question 30

Otherwise known as Itneg or literally, Itineg, which means people living near the Tineg river

Answer 30

Tinggian

Question 31

Traditionally, this people live in fortified villages adjacent to the swidden fields. They differ from other Philippine ethnic groups in that their dress is basically white, with the women known for the heavily beaded and full lower arm ornaments. The village is the political unit with a lakay as the head, assisted by a council of elders. The indigenous religion recognizes Kadaklan as the supreme deity, often identified also with Kabunyian, and other animistic deities.

Answer 31

Tinggian

Question 32

One of the smallest minority groups in the province of Isabela. They are an indigenous community that speaks a distinct language that swims together with numerous other Filipino languages that have puzzled many other researchers.

Answer 32

Yogad