Remontado
Infanta, Quezon
Remontado Agta People derive their name from the Spanish verb "remontar", meaning, "to flee to the hills", "to frighten away" or "go back to the mountains". These indigenous peoples (IPs) are said to be the descendants of lowlanders who opted to live in the mountains to avoid subjugation by the Spaniards. Subsequently, they intermarried with the Negrito groups. Also referred to as Dumagat, they pr ...
efer to call themselves taga-bundok (from the mountains) or magkakaingin (those who practice kaingin).
They inhabit the uplands of Rizal and Quezon Provinces along the Sierra Madre highlands. They live mainly on the eastern part of Rizal Province, specifically Sta. Ines of Antipolo Municipality (now part of Tanay); Tinukan, Mamuyao, San Andres, Cuyambay, Layban, Daraitan, and Sampaloc of Tanay; and Macabod, Anginan, Cabooan, Mabolo, Malasia and Puray of Montalban.
The areas of Infanta-Real-General Nakar of Quezon Province are also their dwelling places. Although the Remontado are semi-nomadic, there is no reported case of heavy out-migration. They roam in a specific geographic range they consider home base.
The Remontado used to be hunters and gatherers before they switched to shifting cultivation or kaingin. This economic activity has prompted them to gain mastery of seasonal weather and yearly cycle. They also possess their own economic calendar showing the main subsistence activities of the group. The whole family is involved in the process with the father performing the heavier task of preparing the field; e.g., clearing and burning of the ground.
Remontado Agta People News
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STATEMENT Water Is For The People
Statement of KATRIBU on the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Large Dams
In commemoration of the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Large Dams this March 14, Katribu Kalipunan ng Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KATRIBU) extends its warm greetings of solidarity to all communities, organizations, and advocates who are defending our rivers and water resources from destructive profiteering schemes and are struggling against all destructive projects attacking the people's inherent right to water.
For us indigenous people, water resources like rivers play a crucial par ... -
Indigenous peoples say no to destructive energy projects
Indigenous peoples warn of dire effects on their dwindling population as they call for a stop to a least six mega dam and mini-hydro power projects being undertaken by the Aquino government.
Building of dams, to indigenous peoples, has meant "erosion of culture and ethnocide, although these "may be able to produce electricity or provide irrigation services and flood control," said Jill Cariño, Executive Director and Convenor of the Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples' Rights (TFIP).
TFIP, a network of 12 NGOs, along with the Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipina ... -
Indigenous people groups oppose Aquino legacy dam projects
Groups of indigenous peoples voiced their opposition against the legacy dam projects of the Aquino administration weeks before the president's last State of the Nation Address (SONA).
The New Centennial Water Source Project (NCWSP) threatens the ancestral domains of Dumagat-Remontados, an ethnic tribe in Quezon and Rizal provinces, said Conchita Calzado, member of a Dumagat-Remontado people's organization, SAGIBIN.
The Kaliwa Dam Project, the first part of the NCWSP, was mentioned by President Benigno Aquino III in his 4th SONA.
Aquino then said, "According to some studies, there may ... -
The Remontados Of The Sierra Madre Mountains
The Remontados, identified as a Negrito ethnolinguistic group, derive their name from the Spanish verb "remontar", meaning, "to flee to the hills", "to frighten away" or "go back to the mountains". These indigenous peoples (IPs) are said to be the descendants of lowlanders who opted to live in the mountains to avoid subjugation by the Spaniards. Subsequently, they intermarried with the Negrito groups. Also referred to as Dumagat, they prefer to call themselves taga-bundok (from the mountains) or magkakaingin (those who practice kaingin). (Bennnagen, 1985)
Physical Characteristics. The Remon ... -
17 year old tool of plunder Indigenous peoples want law scrapped agency abolished
Indigenous peoples led by the Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (Kamp) protested today, Oct. 29, at the office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Quezon City, and called for the scrapping of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (Ipra) and the abolition of the NCIP, its implementing agency.
Protesters said the Ipra, which was signed into law on Oct. 29, 1997, "worsened the historical injustice committed against indigenous peoples."
"The IPRA neither protects nor defends the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and self-determination," said the ... -
Rebels warn of attacks vs dams in Sierra Madre
Communist rebels threatened to disrupt the construction of at least two controversial dam projects on the Sierra Madre mountain range, which tribal leaders and project critics said would lead to massive environmental damage and displacement of tribal communities.
Armando "Ka Mando" Jacinto, spokesperson of the New People's Army's (NPA) Rosemarie Lodronio Rosal Command operating in the Sierra Madre section of Southern Tagalog, said rebels would launch attacks to stop the projects.
The two dam projects??"Kaliwa Dam and Laiban Dam??"are under the P18.7-billion New Centennial Water Source pr ...