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In 1971, a band of cave-dwelling people called the Tasadays was discovered in a very remote rainforest in South Cotabato. They were allegedly living a very Paleolithic lifestyle, using tools made of stone and wood, surviving in the wild by hunting animals, and wearing leaves for clothing. This was hailed by the international media as one of the greatest anthropologic discoveries that time, declaring the 26 members of the tribe as living proofs that prehistoric life is still in existence in the Philippines back then.

However, news reports came out thirteen years after that the Tasadays story was a big hoax and their story was just created to boost the growing worldwide popularity of the Marcos regime. Since then, no news was ever heard about the Tasadays again until now.

This Monday on I-Witness, award-winning documentarist Kara David becomes the first Filipino journalist to ever set foot on the Tasaday enclave thirty years after its much publicized discovery. Kara climbs mountains and crosses several rivers in Mindanao to reach the Tasadays current dwelling, the town of Tosofu in Lake Sebu in South Cotabato.

Kara meets Lobo, the 12-year old Tasaday poster boy who now acts as the tribes chieftain. Lobo relates how their life was after they were labeled as a hoax by the foreign media. Kara also meets Dul, one of the oldest members of the tribe. He leads Kara and her I-Witness crew to the infamous caves where they were discovered and put them to international prominence during the 70s.

Is the Tasaday story for real or really just a hoax? Kara David tries to unravel the truth behind the forgotten story of the Tasaday tribe in the groundbreaking I-Witness documentary Tasaday," airing this Monday midnight over GMA-7 after the late night newscast Saksi.

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[MrAtamu]

Do you think that big guys like Elizalde or Marcos needed to create a tribe to get what they wanted ? Those guys did have the power, the money and the guns to get whatever they wanted to, there was no need to setup a tribe for that. So ?

[MrAtamu]

Or to get fame ? He was already famous in his country, and even outside, in 1971, the National Geographic magazine had already devoted to him an article entitled “Help for the Philippine Tribes in Trouble” (the article on the Tasaday came a year later). ? Or to get timbers lands ?

[MrAtamu]

A hoax ? When you do something it is always on purpose no? So why Elizalde would have “created” a tribe ? To get money ? The Elizalde family was ranking number 6 at the top of the richest people in the Philippines at that time (we deal here with billionaires), he was running a lot of enterprises: distillery, newspapers, etc.

[MrAtamu]

Elizalde did not claim anything, the “Stone Age” image and claims came from journalists. And the few and very short field studies at that time concluded to a certain period of isolation, but not dating back to Paleolithic ages. Their isolation was in fact quite recent.

[meltans1]

kawawa naman sila

[jebronx]

maybe the Tasadays were real. But they were not the people from the dawn of time. Not a as old as Elizalde claimed.

[emgiemaico]

Madami kasing galit kay marcos kaya pati mga tasaday naaapekto han

[excuseUjustanopinion]

Nakaka lungkot isipin ang sinapit ng Tasaday. Kailan kaya sila kikilalanin na bilang Tasaday?

[sirHamilton100]

hangad q na hwag gamitin ng mga nagpapanggap na social scientists ang mga kawawang inosenteng grupo na ito na maaring tawaging bahagi ng yaman ng kultura ng bansa..sa mga mapagkuwit ng isyu para lamang sumikat at pag usapan.. nasan ang pag ibig nyo sa kababayan nyo?? kung sipsip kayo. sipsipin nyo na lang ang dugo na amo nyong politiko.. at wag ng kawawain pa ang mga taong to.. kay oswald..manahinik ka na lang jan at magbasa

[docobet03]

nice work