CORDI

• Cultural heritage includes tangible cultural property such as buildings, historic places, monuments, books, documents, works of art, machines, clothing, and artifacts
• Intangible cultural heritage consists of nonphysical aspects of a culture, including social customs, social values, traditions, customs, practices, aesthetic and spiritual beliefs, artistic expression, and language
• Natural heritage encompasses the countryside, natural environment, flora and fauna (biodiversity), and geological elements (geodiversity)
• Culture is the shared ideas, beliefs, practices, and social behavior of a particular group of people or society
• Culture is dynamic and constantly evolving
• Heritage specifically refers to the tangible and intangible aspects inherited from the past that hold cultural, historical, or natural value
• Heritage represents enduring elements passed on from generation to generation
• UNESCO defines cultural heritage as "both a product and a process" that affirms and reproduces cultural identity of a society
• Cultural heritage is rooted in the past, created in the present, and bestowed for the benefit of future generations
• Cultural heritage is categorized into three general domains: Tangible Heritage, Intangible Heritage, and Natural Heritage
• Types of cultural heritage include movable cultural heritage (paintings, sculptures, coins, manuscripts), immovable cultural heritage (monuments, archaeological sites), and underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins)
• Tawid Cordillera emphasizes commonalities, shared values, and defending ways of life together
• Tawid (acquired from predecessors) or maipatawid (something to pass on) derives from the essence of Cordillera cultures as life-giving (mangipaay ti biag) and life-nurturing (mangdur-as iti panagbiyag)
• Heritage is not just a matter of right but also a matter of responsibility
• Geography of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR):

  • Located in the northern part of Luzon in the Cordillera Mountain Ranges
  • Separates Region 1 and Region 2
  • Only landlocked region in the Philippines, surrounded by land
  • Created by Executive Order No. 220 on July 15, 1987
  • Composed of 76 municipalities, 1,172 barangays within a total land area of 1,829,386 hectares
  • Accounts for seven (7%) of the total land mass of the Philippines
  • Cordillera covers three mountain ranges: Malaya range (west), Central Range (center), and Polis Range (east)
• Cordillera culture consists of autonomous villages called "ili" or in spanish "Tribus Independientes"
• Two types of rice agriculture are found in the Cordillera: dry rice, grown in shifting swiddens, and wet rice, grown in terraced pondfields
• Wet rice techniques are used by the Ifugao, Bontok, Kankanaey, and other groups in the high mountain regions of Benguet Province, while dry rice techniques are used by the Isneg and Kalinga in the lower elevation Kalinga and Apayao Provinces
• Under US rule, Igorots were labeled as "Non-Christians", "Tribes", "headhunters", "savages", and "wild", with negative connotations associated with backwardness, savagery, and paganism
• Cordillera from the spanish term "Cordilla", a diminutive of "Cuerda" which means "Chain" or "Cord"
• According to William Henry Scott, the term IGOROT is an Indigenous Filipino word which means "Mountaineer".
• IGOLOT from the root word "GOLOT" means MOUNTAIN and prefix "I" means "People of" or "Dwellers in" which IGOLOT/IGOROT means "PEOPLE FROM THE MOUNTAINS"
• MONTANOSA OR KAIGOROTAN is a term used in a casual conversations of natives.
• Laurence Lee Wilson called Cordi as "Skyland of the Ph"
• By DENR, CAR as the "Watershed Cradle of the Ph"
• Abra - BANGUED, Apayo - KABUGAO, Benguet - LA TRINIDAD, Ifugao - LUGAWE, Kalinga - TABUK CITY, Mountain Province - BONTOC
• APAYAO, BONTOC, BENGUET, IFUGAO, KALINGA - The 5 regions that make up the OLD MOUNTAIN PROVINCE (CAR)
• Also known as the DIVISION LAW (RA 4695) that divided the OLD CAR into four regions which are the KALINGA-APAYAO, BENGUET, IFUGAO, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE during JUNE 19, 1966
• APRIL 24, 1985 - CORDI BODONG DAY
• SEPTEMBER 13, 1986 - Pres. Cory met the CBA and CPLA leaders.
• Creation of Section 1 Article X that recognizes the Autonomy of CAR regions during FEB 2, 1987.
• TRIBE is the collection of COLONIZED group of people
• AYTA, ATI, AGTA, BATAK, DUMAGAT, MAMANWA are the variants of NEGRITOS
• YGOLOTTES - people from the mountain, TINGGUIANS - high or elevated, MANDAYA - those up above, INFIELES - pagans, SALVAJES - savages during SPANISH COLONIZATION.
• BENGUET as a province is the first civil government in the country.
• LEPANTO - BONTOC (MOUNTAIN PROVINCE) consist of 3 subs provinces which are LEPANTO, BONTOC, AMBURAYAN
• BENGUET ROAD - kennon road