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246 Pages·2017·5.55 MB·English

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This book puts forward the argument that the
experience of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao,
Philippines, the Lumad, goes beyond the limits of
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Arnold P. Alamon teaches Sociology at the
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D i s c r i m i n at i o n &
Oro as columnist where earlier versions of some
chapters of this book were first published. He
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is also involved with the Mindanao Interfaith
Institute on Lumad Studies under whose auspices i n m i nD a n ao
the research for this book was undertaken.

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A R N O L D P. A L A M O N
W A R S O F
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D I S C R I M I N A T I O N &
T H E L U M A D S T R U G G L E
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IMAGE SELECTION & BOOK DESIGN BY KARL CASTRO
Wars of Extinction: Discrimination and
the Lumad Struggle in Mindanao
Author: Arnold P. Alamon
Book and cover design: Karl Castro
ISBN: 978-971-95500-4-4
Contents of this book may be quoted from
or copied so long as the source/authors are
acknowledged. Mindanao Interfaith Institute This book is produced by the Mindanao
on Lumad Studies, RMP-NMR Inc and the Interfaith Institute on Lumad Studies, and
‘Healing the Hurt’ Project partners do not published by RMP-NMR Inc and the ‘Healing
guarantee that information contained in the Hurt’ Project partners.
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This book is available online: of RMP-NMR Inc and the ‘Healing the Hurt’
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Frontispiece: Publisher:
At the center of the “wars of extinction” Rural Missionaries of the Philippines
being waged against indigenous Northern Mindanao Sub-Region
communities are Lumad communities (RMP-NMR), Inc
and schools. The photo is a Lumad child’s
depiction of the attack in their communities Office address:
in Mahagsay, San Luis, Agusan del Surdrawn Room 310, 3rd Floor, Diocesan Centrum
in a psychosocial intervention. (RMP-NMR) Salvador Lluch St., Poblacion
9200 Iligan City,
Previous spread: Philippines
Lumad schools like this one in San Fernando, T/F: [phone]
Bukidnon are under threat of closure. Mobile: [phone]
Already far from much needed social E: [email protected]
services and public education, indigenous W: www.rmp-nmr.org
children that are served by literacy and Follow us on Twitter: @rmpnmr
numeracy such as this one operated by the Like us on Facebook: @rmpnmr.inc
Rural Missionaries of the Philippines are
under attack. (PAU VILLANUEVA)
Images courtesy of: This book is dedicated to the life and
Karl Castro struggle of Lumad leader Renato “Tatay
Erwin Mascariñas Renz” Anglao and countless others before
C. Panlilio who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defense
Pau Villanueva of their community’s ancestral land. One
Gary Ben Villocino of the recognized leaders of TINDOGA, he
Google Earth was with his five year-old child and wife
Art and Picture Collection, The New York when he was waylaid by gunmen while
Public Library on-board his motorcycle in the Bukidnon
University of Michigan Library (Special highway last February 3, 2017.
Collections Library)
US Geological Survey
US Library of Congress
C O N T E N T S
Chapter 1
Introduction
1
Chapter 2
Matrices of Oppression
5
Chapter 3
The Lumad Past: The Conquest of Mindanao
through Resettlement
21
Chapter 4
American Benevolence and Shifting Modes of Production:
Agricultural Production in Bukidnon
39
Chapter 5
Logging as Gateway Activity to Economic Plunder
and Environmental Disaster
61
Chapter 6
Mining in Mindanao
67
Chapter 7
Wars of Extinction
111
Chapter 8
Cowboys and Ranchers
and the Manobo Pulangion of Quezon, Bukidnon
135
Chapter 9
Heeding Lessons of History:
The Banwaon of San Luis, Agusan de Sur
157
Chapter 10
The Lumad Present: Accumulation by Dispossession
173
Chapter 11
Dispossession through State-sponsored Wars of Extinction
181
Chapter 12
The Lumad Future: Lumad Identity and Struggle
191
Chapter 13
Necessary Decouplings
209
referenCes —— 232