B'LAAN PEOPLE......B'LAAN DADTO IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE

B'LAAN PEOPLE AND THEIR CHANGES.......The B'laan people are proud of their culture. Traditionally music and dance play an important parts of the community. The B'laans play a variety of unique instrument called faglung with accompaniment of gongs to their traditional songs and dance of all occasions. The popular weaving with it's geometric patterns in a beautiful hand woven fabric, which takes several months to finished. With their embroidered costumed, bangles, bracelets and brass, and beaded belts, they are the most colorful of the Filipino indigenous groups......The B'laan people of Pula Bato, Tampakan, South Cotabato, are exceedingly timid, and are of peaceable disposition and are the most industrious of all the interior, they occupy. Their language is characterized by the possession of the letter "F". It was noted that the B'laans were the superior tribe because they were hospitable, cleanly, industrious and wealthy. B'laans are very superstitious people, few are Christians, most of them continues to believe in what they believe in the past, they want to preserve their culture and tradition of the tribe. Some believe in the spirits who live in several places in the natural environment. Cultural heritage is visible in their brass bangles and as part for their personal finery. Most ethnic communities, the B'laans possesses an ancient culture that distinguishes from other groups. Highland B'laans, each family live in the house at least one half mile from any other house. The B'laans like other indigenous group, seek and secure future and wish to raise their standard of living which can only be achieved by increasing income by improving housing, educations, and providing the means to ensure a stable subsistence base through sustainable agricultural practices. The B'laans are proudly independent people, who values their culture and traditions. Their fundamental law, "Help your neighbors, do good and give rice, do not steal, do not kill the ennocent, do something peacefully among themselves and their neighbors". To B'laans, the secret of long life is "Good and righteous living, to do good, God grants long life. For the B'laans, their culture and tradition preserved of their ethnic identities..........CHANGES OF B'LAAN PEOPLE..........Education is one important changes in the culture of B'laans. Technology and advancement, this things generated a big change to the B'laan people. They allowed their children to study in other schools. B'laan children were fortunate to have finished a college education through scholarship grants and leave their village and work elsewhere. Changes of younger B'laans, women wear something to cover their upper part of the body, not like before the're showing their upper part of the body. B'laans, second generation particularly, give their chance to choose whom to marry among other tribes or Christian people. B'laan women learn to adorn themselves from early childhood, they apply cosmetics and arrange their hair adoring with earrings, necklaces and other accessories. B'laan farming was changed by the used of new technology for the stability of food production....Some B'laans want to learned more alternative work to earn extra money, but mostly of the indigenous people still live like in the past. They still live in a traditional way, compared with how ancestors lived before. We should help them to continue the changing world........B'LAAN PRAYER......LORD, TEACH THE B'LAAN PEOPLE AND THEIR CHILDREN TO LOVE, TO RESPECT,AND TO BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THEY MAY LIVE WITH PEACE AND JOY. AMEN........IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE.......B'LAAN ADMASEL.......DWATA, FGARE DAD B'LAAN DADTO NEKU DAD NGA FARA DE AKSULI NAWA DE KRU E DADTO NEKU BEG AMGAMI FEW NAWA. AMEN....Photos of some B'laans in Pula Bato community.......PHOTOS POSTED ARE MY COLLECTIONS.....THE B'LAAN PEOPLE.......