A list of Gaddang people found in historical documents:

Calaccad

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            Calaccad is an old Barangay of Tabuk situated in the southernmost part of the municipality, at the provincial boundary of Kalinga and Mountain Province.

 

            The original inhabitants of the place are believed to have come from the Gaddang Tribe of Nueva Vizcaya who found their way to the area during the hunting and fishing stage. The place was covered with thick forest and verdant grassland drained by the Mallig River. It was a   haven of wild games and its waters abound with different varieties of fresh water fishes. It was then an ideal hunting and fishing ground.

 

            A legend which was passed by word of mouth from generation   to generation is about a hunter who went into the thick forest to hunt for wild animals for food. While in the forest he heard a strange noise.

 

            A group of men went to the forest to find out what could be the strange noise they heard. On arriving at the place they heard the same sound “TOK-TOK-TOK-TOK-KRRAKKAD-TOK-TOK-TOK!”. On looking up to the trunk of the tall tree from which the strange sound came, they saw a multi-colored bird with a long sharp bill. It was a woodpecker, pecking on trunk of the tree. Since that time the place was called “Karakked”. With the passage of time, the word was corrupted into Calaccad by which the whole settlement area is now called.

 

            As more people came to settle in the area – they came from various ethnic origins, Ilokano ,Tagalog,  Pampanguenos, Igorots, Cagayanos – the residents thought wise to divide the old Barangay Calaccad into two barangays. So that, upon petition of a majority of the registered voters in the Barangay,  which was favorably indorsed by the Sangguniang Bayan of Tabuk, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Kalinga- Apayao enacted Provincial Ordinance No. 1988, Barangay CUDAL was created as a separate, distinct and independent local government unit, thus reducing the land area and population of the Mother Barangay CALACCAD.

 

II. Land Area – 42.60 sq.km/4,500 hectares

III. No. of sitios/puroks – 6 sitios

IV. Population (2007 NSO census) – 1,382

V. Major Products – Rice, corn, banana & coffee

THE GADDANGS OF NUEVA VIZCAYA

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Cagayan tribe Gaddang members foster linkage

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Cagayan tribe Gaddang members foster linkages

September 23, 2007, 8:00am

Would you believe that the little known Gaddang ethno-linguistic Tribe of the Cagayan Valley has a number of sons and daughters highly placed and prominent in government and academe and successful in business and other professions?

This was one of the findings a group of scholars from the University of the Philippines who initiated last week a cultural dialogue among Gaddangs coming from various professional postings here and abroad.

National Artist Edith Lopez-Tiempo, former senator and Cabinet secretary Heherzon Alvarez, the Lumauig brothers of Ifugao, the Maddelas, Panganibans and, Lantions of Nueva Vizcaya to include Governor Corazon Espino and the Lumicaos and Guiabs, have been cited as among the more prominent Gaddangs in the country today.

The Gaddang Tribe is one of three major linguistic groups that populate the Cagayan Valley (Region 2) but gradually losing their ethnic identity because of cultural integration with migrants from the Ilocos and Central Luzon regions.

The two other dominant tribes in the Cagayan Valley are the Ibanags and the Itawis or Ayogads.

Nueva Vizcaya and the eastern frontiers of Ifugao, Mountain Province of Kalinga are historically known and anthropologically recorded as the ethnic origins of the Gaddangs. Portions of Isabela are also populated by Gaddangs such as Tumawini, Echague, Angadanan, Cauayan and Santiago, now a city and earlier known as Carig.

Retired UP professor Jovito Castillo, former UP dean of Music Maurie Borromeo, Anthropology professor Dolly Lumciao, UP Alumni Association, VicePresident Romulo Lumauig, and Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Jose Molano are the prime movers in the cultural awareness forum which will henceforth be regularly held.

Letters of support to the Gaddang Cultural Awareness initiative have been received from professionals here and abroad, especially those engaged in research work in various academic institutions in the United States and Europe.

Kalinga the land of the Brave

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Gaddang tribe eyes awarding of ancestral domain claims

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PIA Press Release
Friday, November 11, 2011

Gaddang tribe eyes awarding of ancestral domain claims

by Ben Moses Ebreo

 

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, November 11(PIA) -- Members of the Gaddang tribe here are elated over the identification of their ancestral domain in the province by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).

 

Solano councilor Roland Carub, adviser of the Nueva Vizcaya Gaddang Association (NVGA) said they were informed that the NCIP has completed the mapping of their ancestral domain covering some 135,000 hectares in Nueva Vizcaya.

 

These ancestral domain areas of the Gaddangs, he added, are located in the towns of Bayombong, Solano, Bagabag, Diadi, Quezon, Villaverde and Kasibu, particularly Kongkong Valley.

 

“Once these areas are awarded to us, we will work out for its protection, rehabilitation and production to provide livelihood among our fellow tribesmen,” Carub said.

 

He added that NVGA will also craft a land use plan for the identified ancestral domain areas including allocation of settlement areas and for livelihood.

 

The declaration of their ancestral domain, according Carub, was announced during the first Gaddang congress last year by NCIP regional officials.

 

“We hope that our ancestral domain claims will be awarded next year as the NCIP is processing our documents already,” he said.# tcb/bme/PIA 2-Nueva Vizcaya

 

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