LUMAD

Lúmad refers to a group of indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning “native” or “indigenous.”

Cebuano is a language distinct from Tagalog; however, the word Lumad has entered the Filipino vocabulary.

Ang Lúmad ay isang pangkat ng mga katutubong tao ng katimugang Pilipinas.
The Lúmad are a group of indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines.

Ito ay salitang Cebuano na nangangahulugang “katutubo.”
This is a Cebuano word meaning “native.”

Ang Lumad ay binubuo ng mga 12 milyong tao o 18% ng kabuuang populasyon ng Pilipinas.
The Lumad comprises about 12 million people or 18% of the Philippines’ total population.

Sila ay itinuturing na “marurupok na pangkat” na nakatira sa mga kagubatan at mga baybayin.
They are considered “vulnerable groups” living in the forests and coastal areas.

Katawhang Lúmad (literally “indigenous peoples”) is the autonym officially adopted by the delegates of the Lumad Mindanao Peoples Federation (LMPF) founding assembly on 1986 in Cotabato, Philippines. It is the self-ascription and collective identity of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao.

Representatives from 15 tribes agreed in 1986 to adopt the name; there were no delegates from the three major groups of the T’boli people. The choice of a Cebuano word was due to the fact that the Lumad tribes do not have any other common language except Cebuano. This was the first time that these tribes had agreed to a common name for themselves, distinct from that of the Moros and different from the migrant majority and their descendants.

There are 18 Lumad ethnolinguistic groups: Atta, Bagobo, Banwaon, B’laan, Bukidnon, Dibabawon, Higaonon, Mamanwa, Mandaya, Manguwangan, Manobo, Mansaka, Subanen, Tagakaolo, Tasaday, Tboli, Teduray, and Ubo.

The 18 Lumad groups are spread across 19 provinces throughout the Philippines. Considered as “vulnerable groups”, they live in hinterlands, forests, lowlands and coastal areas.