Tasaday Story 2of 2

Film tells the story of the Tasaday, a group of 26 gentle people discovered in a Philippine rainforest in 1971. They said they had thought the forest was the entire world. The Tasaday sheltered in caves, wore leaves, used stone tools, and were pure food gatherers who had no knowledge of agriculture. Film covers their first three years in contact with visitors from modern society and documents the changes that came into Tasaday life with modern medicines, new foods, and such things as flashlights, matches, and helicopters.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Tasaday
• stone tools
• cave-dwellers
• rainforest
• primitive people
• lost tribe
• anthropology
• Stone Age
• John Nance
• D.E.
• Yen
• Lawrence Reid
• hoax
• Manuel Elizalde
• PANAMIN
• reservation
• conservation
• indigenous people
• endangered people
• Manobo Blit
• transformation
• Charles Lindbergh
• Jack Reynolds of NBC
• Friends of the Tasaday
• South Cotabato
• watershed

[kimmelay]

they say that the story of tasaday is a hoax, it was even shown in kaps amazing stories-worlds greatest hoaxes

[johnenance]

The truth is that the claim of a hoax was the real hoax. The claim that the Tasaday were a hoax was created as part of a scam to obtain the Tasaday's land and its many timber and mineral resources. Truth was established by l8 social scientists who studied the Tasaday in the rainforest & found them absolutely authentic--living in caves for seven generations, using stone tools, making fire with wooden drills, gathering food with no experience of agriculture. They still live in the forest today.

[johnenance]

Hey akosi05--thanks for your poetic comment. One thing, however, I'm not aware of any Tasaday separated because of poverty. Two Tasaday women married Tboli men and moved in with their families, but still visit the others, all of whom remain in the reservation.

[johnenance]

Thanks for your message. Yes, the Tasaday are alive today and still living in the same area as when discovered in 1971 on a protected reserve. They now number over 215 persons and have had to make major adjustments in order to survive in dealing with the modern world. Their culture is different in man y ways, but at heart they remain similar to when we first met.

[MrAds24]

that tasaday is really genuine,am a member of NGo and assigned at lake sebu before,i been in there place for many times and i can assure that they are the real tasaday,,so if u have any doubt,its not my problem at all,

[MrAtamu]

For instance, it seems that the Penan people of Borneo (hunter-gatherers) comes from ancestors who were familiar with agriculture (as the other tribes there : Iban, Kelabit, Kayan, Kenya, etc.).

[MrAtamu]

At :BoBtheparrot7

The lost of cultural traits can be very fast, even if we consider them as granted and as solid as rocks, but that is not the case at all, especially if it hits small groups. During some exceptional circumstances, there have been groups forced (for whatever reason, war, disease, etc.) to abandon their former way life and start to adapt to a new one as a mean of survival. And we cannot exclude that what was supposed to be a temporary solution became permanent later on.

[BoBtheparrot7]

Maybe I don't understand... you say they were there for over 200 years which at the time (1971)

would be 1771 give or take a few decades or years. The Philippines have been a fairly unified country since 1543. I understand that there are a little over 7,000 islands (alot to be mapped and charted and explored) but still... no one made contact with these folks in over 200 years?? Also, 200 years is not a fairly long time meaning a group from another island had to have formed this group long ago.

[beatbstrdz]

Philippines has a rich bio-diversity. Just recently 100 new species were found in the Philippines. Philippines has many secrets. There's over 7000 islands, many are inhabited.

[bougzy009]

do they have survival tool kit ? please answer

[bougzy009]

do they have survival tool kit ?

[dovestdama]

HMMM,,,i dont know dis kind of tribes,,tasaday?maybe similarly d tribe of mamalu and tabunaway..according 2 d elderly people..or d historical period d tribe of tabunaway ang mamalu are living d forest mountain of upi.. in southern mindanao..hmm...am not sure..but..yah..same like dis peoples..but no matter wat..d important they r a filipino....pls let us help them..........

[T73Palin]

@johnenance Wake up. Just wake up. Phillipine is thekind of country.

[oldinfant23]

Tasaday is real they just use by Elizalde