Module 2

• Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan are included in the setting of History 3.
• The peoples of Minsupala at present can be categorized into three major ethnic groups: Lumads, Moros, and Christians.
• Matigsalug has 37,100 members.
• Banwaon has 8,200 members in 1992.
• Ata Manobo has 33,400 members.
• The number of peoples of Minsupala as of 2012 census is 22,955,000.
• The objectives of the module include understanding the geographical location of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, and the inclusion of Palawan in the setting of History 3.
• The introductory activity involves students introducing themselves in class using their own native tongue, and the teacher may enhance this activity by bringing a map of Mindanao.
• The lesson proper includes understanding the geographical location of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, and the inclusion of Palawan in the setting of History 3.
• Mindanao is the second largest island in the archipelago and stands for the island grouping that comprises of mainland Mindanao and the adjacent islands in the southern part of the country.
• The mainland of Mindanao provides a lot of agricultural, industrial, commercial and tourism potentials.
• The term Moro refers to the thirteen Islamized tribes of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.
• The Christianized natives started associating negative connotations with the term Moro.
• The term's negative connotation was so profound that it did not begin to be accepted even among Muslims until around the emergence of the Moro National Liberation Front which deansed the term of its unpleasant meanings.
• The term Moro was equated with pirate, kidnapper, enslaver, thief, treacherous, etcetera.
• The term Moro is derived from the Spanish term Mauru/s, which referred to the Muslims of North Africa who colonized southern Spain for more than seven hundred years.
• The Christianized natives were unaware that they were only impressed or forced in the military expeditions.
• The Muslims started hating the Christianized natives due to retaliatory raids.
• The Spaniards appeared to be making the Muslims of Mindanao and Sulu "pay" while the Christianized natives of Luzon, Visayas and northern Mindanao were made to collect the "payment" by forcing them to become soldiers of Spain's war of aggression against the Muslim Sultanates of Mindanao and Sulu.
• The term Lumad refers to the tribes who were neither Islamized nor Christianized upon the arrival of the Spaniards.
• The Moro National Liberation Front has cleansed the term of its unpleasant connotation by propagating the more correct view that the tenacity with which the natives conducted their war of resistance against foreign intrusion was a classic exercise in heroism.
• The Lumads refer to the tribes who were neither Islamized nor Christianized upon the arrival of the Spaniards.
• A summary of the Lumad tribes with their corresponding traditional homeland is presented below.
• The term Moro was originally used by the colonialists to perpetuate an image of the Muslim people of Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu and Palawan as savage and treacherous, while they are simply daring and tenacious in the defense of their homeland and faith.
• Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan (Minsupala) are located in the southern part of the Philippines.
• Palawan is included in the setting of History 3.
• The peoples of Minsupala include ethnolinguistic groups of Lumads, Moro, and migrant ethnic groups of "Christians" from Luzon and Visayas.
• As of the 2012 census, there are at least 18 ethnolinguistic groups of Lumads, 13 groups of Moro, and at least 9 migrant ethnic groups in Minsupala.