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This site was initiated in 2008 and it has been open for suggestions, comments and contributions hoping to encourage people to participate and just say anything about Barlig. However, only few people has expressed some ideas and positiveness (thank you for that), but the hits showed a high number so thank you for those who made an effort to visit the blog. Creating this wasn’t easy for a person who doesn’t know web designing but all we need is a simple website where we can gather and put information about Barlig.
For the moment, as I myself who is currently administering the site is very away from home and have no contacts to give updates. The website has created the pages and some are waiting for time to be filled in by our Kakailiyans. I will leave it as it is until new efforts or inputs come along. People who have visited this place of ours please share a piece about your experience in Barlig.
It is in need of contributors covering photos, videos, songs, chants, travel guides, news, articles, literatures, stories. Have you got old pictures of Barlig and it’s people? Definitely needed. Barlig would mean Central Barlig, Lias, and Kadaclan. Anything related to Barlig that we would like to promote and let the world know. We can preserve them online and become accessible by anyone. This would be a good portal connection and information for all the people of Barlig, to those who have love this place of ours, to our kakailiyans living locally or abroad. We can be all proud of our place, at least!
Suggestions and any kind of support is very much appreciated. Please contact at the site’s own email address: barlig2623@yahoo.com.ph.
Ps. this site is everyones! Password is open to those who would like to volunteer, administer, author or edit! Just contact.
Thank you. Saramat…
[Truly Yours, Langfia]
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Express how you dearly love and care about your home, Barlig:
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Finding my solace
The sun emits its rays at last. And as the aroma of rice grains filled the new morning, I, standing barefoot in the middle of the field, felt serenity.
Yearly, I would find time to come home to this Ili despite the work pressures I have to endure in my workplace. For me, having an escapade at least once in a long year satisfies my longing to stay permanently.
The welcoming nod of my kailian whenever they see or meet me walking the path bound home is so much comforting. In the city where I work, hundreds of people I meet would not share a nod with a stranger like me. Here, I am very much blessed for a lot of people whom I don’t know give me a warm smile and sometimes, they would share some words with me.
In this home, people live a simple life. They don’t need to pay pamasahe – free rides and a brisk or even a relaxed walk will save you that expensive fare. And besides, the soothing sight of the rice fields and the vast expanse of mossy mountains are already enough to calm the tiredness from a walk.
A cold bath from the verdant waterfalls and mighty rivers somehow washes away the pressures I got from living in an urban setting.
Considered lucky, I can also tap my feet along with the sounds of the gongs played. Though I don’t know how to manuraw (dance the ethnic way), which I regret very much, the powerful reverberation from the pattong creates a euphoric feeling inside me.
The chirps of the birds every time I wake up adds to that. These are the times when I am thankful for my ears are away from the rambling sounds of the city.
So as I ride the muddy jitney that will lead me to a bus going back to the city, I felt a twinge in my heart for I am leaving my home again. But one thing for sure will always go with me. The thought that I have a home like this place is already enough.
I am glad that I belong.
These are paragraphs of thoughts from Linyan (Cristine Sidchogan), of how she misses Barlig.
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Have you got poems, poetry, thoughts you composed for Barlig?
Express and share them here. Ps. contact.
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We owe our beautiful place, culture and tradition to our forefathers, our ancestors, our elders. This page is to give recognition to them.
Apo Sodko Fonaton Domalsin: Approx age 118, died 2004:
(Photographs taken by Langfia Ayeona, 2003.)
Ps. add more and let us make a long list of our great elders.
Not necessarily century age, oldness to be proud of!
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CAPITAL: Bontoc
AREA: 2,097 sq.km
LOCATION
The Mountain Province is a landlocked area in the Central Cordilleras in northern Luzon. It is bounded on the north by Kalinga-Apayao, on the east by Isabela, on the west by Abra and llocos Sur, and on the south by Benguet and Ifugao.
THE LAND
Towering peaks and sharp ridges are the main features of the central and western landscape of the province. Gradually sloping and rolling foothills characterize its eastern part. Three major rivers – Chico, Tanudan, and Siffu -create three distinct valleys where the only level lands are found. The province is very wet from June to October and dry from November to May.
A BRIEF HISTORY
On June 18,1966, Republic Act No. 4695 divided the old Mountain Province into four provinces: Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga-Apayao, and the Mountain Province. The area that retained the old province’s name was the former sub-province of Bontoc. The Spaniards called the territory “La Montanosa” because it had more mountains than any other province. The rugged mountain peaks served as protection against Spanish efforts to colonize and convert the tribes to Christianity. They preserve the tribes’ culture and unique way of life
to this day.
During the Filipino-American War, General Emilio Aguinaldo and his revolutionary force crossed the Cordillera through the Mountain Province in December 1899. They proceeded to Sagada and Bontoc to elude the American troops. They went on to Ifugao and Isabela, where they were eventually captured. The Americans established a civil government in the province. In 1901, Catholic and Protestant missionaries began evangelization work in the high lands. In 1908, the old Mountain Province was created under Act No. 1876 of the Philippine Legislature.
THE PEOPLE
The people are mainly Bontoc Igorots, with llocano migrants from neighboring provinces. Bontoc Igorots are industrious farmers who were once regarded as the most belligerent of the mountain tribes. Though they are Christians, they still cling to their traditional beliefs and rituals. The most famous of these is the canao, in which the entire village participates. A pig or carabao is sacrificed and feasted upon to mark a wedding or death and always at several stages of planting and harvesting rice. The feast is followed by singing and
dancing till dawn to the accompaniment of metal gongs.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
The main source of livelihood is agriculture, as well as livestock and poultry raising. Its major crops include vegetables and rootcrops, of which they are the second highest producer in the region, next to Benguet. Tourism also contributes to the economy.
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