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Category: history
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Bridging the Past and Present: Our Shared Heritage with the Manide Tribe
In a powerful display of community spirit, the Bayanihan Foundation joined forces with local business MPR Sabon Outlet in December 2025 to deliver over 600 lbs. of rice, clothing, and treats to the Manide tribe in the Bicol Highlands. This impactful journey, a continuation of our mission to serve indigenous communities, highlighted the immediate needs…
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Bayanihan in Bloom: Partnering to Support Bicol’s Oldest Indigenous Community
In a powerful display of community spirit, the Bayanihan Foundation joined forces with local business MPR Sabon Outlet to deliver over 600 lbs. of rice, clothing, and treats to the Manide tribe in the Bicol Highlands. Nestled under the shadow of Mt. Labo—a majestic, potentially active stratovolcano straddling Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Quezon—the Manide…
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Honoring Filipino Amerasians, America’s Forgotten Children on Memorial Day
Honoring Filipino Amerasians, America’s Forgotten Children on Memorial Day https://wp.me/pDnD0-4eh
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Balangiga Bells On Their Way Home
After more than a century, the church bells taken by the US Army from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 will be returned to the Philippines. Many are excited about the bells’ return. Philippine President Duterte said, “It ain’t here until it’s here.”
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It’s About Time: FilAm Leaders Urge The Return of Bells of Balangiga
US Secretary of Defense recently notified US Congress of their plans to return the Bells of Balangiga back to Samar after 110 years. The bells are often seen as a divisive symbol of the Philippine-American War. Filipino Americans should contact their Congressional Representatives and hasten the return of the bells.
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It’s The Right Thing To Do: US Should Return the Bells of Balangiga
On June 12, the Philippines celebrates its independence from Spain and the US. Part of that fight for independence was the massacre in Balangiga, Samar. In 1901, the US Army murdered every male over the age of 10 years in town of Balangiga and took the church bells with them to Wyoming. It’s about time…
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Forgotten history Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Will history repeat itself?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an almost forgotten piece of US legislation but it forms the basis of the US ambivalence towards immigration. It excluded the Chinese but later on also excluded Filipinos and Asian immigrants altogether. With President Trump’s increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, will history repeat itself?
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History Matters: Four Things I Learned About the Philippine Revolution
History Matters: Four Things I Learned About the Philippine Revolution – it is complex with multiple characters and a complicated plot played along with various, competing interests. Like the Philippine fruit, Balimbing, it has more than one side to its complicated story.
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History Matters: Magellan Didn’t ‘Discover’ the Philippines After All
Were precolonial Filipinos ‘primitive’ before the Ferdinand Magellan ‘discovered’ the islands in 1521? Were Filipino tribes consist of ‘savages in loin cloths’ when the Americans came in 1898? History matters. It’s time to change the narrative and that the islands had a rich culture even before the colonizers came.
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Philippine American War: Connecting History To The Present
CPI and Bayanihan Foundation explores the Philippine American War, connecting history to the present on Oct 20, 2016 6 PM at DePaul University Chicago. NPR explains that the Philippine President’s mistrust of the US is rooted in the atrocities of the Philippine American War.