Mythologies of the Cordillera Tribes



The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR; Ilocano: Rehion/Deppaar Administratibo ti Kordiliera; Filipino: Rehiyong Pampangasiwaan ng Cordillera), also known as the Cordillera Region and Cordillera (IPA: [kɔrdiljɛra]), is an administrative region in the Philippines, situated within the island of Luzon. It is the only landlocked region in the insular country, bordered by the Ilocos Region to the west and southwest, and by the Cagayan Valley Region to the north, east, and southeast. It is the least populous region in the Philippines, with a population less than that of the city of Manila. The region comprises six provinces: Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province. The regional center is the highly urbanized city of Baguio. The region was officially created on July 15, 1987, and covers most of the Cordillera Mountain Range of Luzon and is home to numerous ethnic peoples. The Nueva Vizcaya province has a majority of Igorot population, but was placed by the American colonial government in the Cagayan Valley Region instead during the early 20th century, so do Quirino. According to the 2020 Census of Population and Housing, this region is the least populated region in the Philippines.


They came from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines. Their families were grabbed of their ancestral lands. Without their own houses to live at and farmlands to till, they moved to another country to work in order to help their families survive economically. They brought with them their tales, music, culture and arts to tell stories of their struggles for justice and self-determination of their community. One of the stories most popularly portrayed by the Cordillera people is the bravery of Macliing Dulag, a respected elder and rice farmer who successfully led his community and the Cordillera ethnic people in opposing a dam project along Chico River during the Marcos regime in the 1970s. The project would have inundated 1,400 sq. kms of rice fields, homes, communal forests and sacred burial grounds in Kalinga, one of the six provinces included in the Cordillera region. As many as 100,000 lives of people in the surrounding villages along the river would have been affected by the project. Macliing Dulag became a strong and articulate leader who stayed firm in opposing the construction of the dam. He and other ethnic Kalinga and Bontoc communities argued that national development should never be achieved at such extreme sacrifice. Resistance to the hydroelectric dam project helped unify what was once a divided Cordillera region. Macliing Dulag and other Cordillera leaders initiated a series of tribal pacts, which helped cement this unity and create a very broad anti‑dam front. Macliing Dulag became the recognized spokesperson for the anti-dam opposition.


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