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Address: Tanay, Rizal
Sub-Category: Song
Stories: Many times, from the past, when the Indigenous Peoples are not yet protected by the laws of the national government, private individuals try to take away their land, and sometimes it leads to chaos because the IPs are willing to fight for it. The problem had been the IPs lack of knowledge of the world outside their community so sometimes people try to abuse their naivety.
Description: The song dates back from long before, according to the elders of Daraitan, it could be 70 years from now, from the time wherein there have been rivalries for property, it had been a well-known fact that some knowledgeable people take advantage of the naivety of the native people and they try to take away their lands and claim it as theirs. It was randomly sung since then when they gather when there are celebrations or when they just want to bond with the other natives. No one from the tribe remembers or knows about the original songwriter of the song today. Tradisyon sa Tribu is all about the way of living of the Dumagat, where they live and how they were called, Pilipinong Ligaw, as mentioned in the lyrics of the song. The song also aims to tell the listeners how they fought for their rights on ancestral lands and how to protect nature from destruction. As the story goes, there was a time before where their ancestors were willing to fight with their life for the sake of their lands. When people that are not from their community tried to take away their land from them. They express the importance of their land as a gift from the Lord. Most of the time, it is sung by the people when they gather together while drinking or whenever they feel like it. It is also sung by tribes when they gather to celebrate when there is an occasion.