It is nice to know and learn more about various inhabitants in a place where one lives at. More specifically, in CAR wherein different groups of people are living in the way they get used to.
One of them are the ISNEG’s who lived in the northwesterly end of northern Luzon in the upper half of Cordillera Province known as Kalinga Apayao. The Isneg’s main staple food is rice, apart from it they raised sugar cane for making basi. They have cultural similarities and only the language differ.Their oral tradition is rich w/ folk riddles w/ explain events and phenomena, relationship between people and their surroundings. ITNEG or TINGGUIAN were one of the early settlers of Abra. Although many have embraced Catholicism,some of them believe in ancient and supernatural spirits to this day. Most of them are farmers who tend rice in kaingins and rice terraces.In terms of Literary works they have their own story of the Great Deluge which implies the Western Mythology.
The most prominent of the Mountain people, they are the IGOROTS.Agriculture is their main source of livelihood. Social classes among them are based on their possessions. They believe that the universe is divided into 5 regions in which inhabited by thousands of deities and spirits. Their religious beliefs are expressed in various rituals performed by the people for any occasion. The BONTOC’s are the only people in the area known to have laws on warfare.Influenced by the Americans who built schools and offered scholarship to them. The Ato is a social, political and religious institution which is the basic unit of the village. They believe in anitos or spirits although they have their own Christian Baptism. Their social literature aims to communicate ideas or attitudes to others at certain occasions.
The mountain province of Benguet is the home of KANKANA-EY. They practice 3 types of Agriculture: slash and burn, terracing and horticulture. There is no political leadership in Kankana-ey society except that which isd acknoledged by virtue of their social classes which is the family.The KALINGA stand tall and one of Malayan Heritage. They provide their own social structure. They have primary dependence in root crops until they developed swidden farming. Kalinga literature consist of riddles,legends, epics or ballads.
Although differ in beliefs, languages and cultural practices, still they have the same way of living, almost the same in looks and in social structure. Our early settlers are those people which whom we all should be proud of.
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