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Bukidnon History...
Bukidnon became a part of the province of Misamis as a municipality in 1850. It was then called Malay-balay (few houses), and its people, Bukidnon.
The Philippine Commission headed by Commissionner Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of Interior, proposed the separation of Bukidnon from Misamis in August 20, 1907. Phil. Com. Act 1963 was enacted, which created Bukidnon as a sub-province. It became a regular province on September 1, 1914, and was officially created as the Province of Bukidnon on March 10, 1917.
The tribes of Bukidnon are indigenous and their names are derived from the watershed that they occupy. Each tribe is ruled by a Datu, or Chieftain, whose duty it is to settle disputes and give judgment whenever the tribe’s unwritten laws, called ""Batasan,"" are violated.
Bukidnons have different degrees of acculturation. The first degree Bukidnons are those leading the most traditional lifestyle. This includes those who live remote from any center lowlander habitation, deep in the forest and along the watershed of the main rivers.
The second degree Bukidnons live near the fringes and directly within the bounds of lowlanders. The third degree Bukidnons are highly assimilated and generally able to send their children off to school. The fourth degree Bukidnons have fully assimilated the ways of urban living and hardly acknowledge the old ways of their background. The fifth degree Bukidnons are largely recent immigrants from other parts of the Philippine Archipelago who have made Bukidnon as their permanent home.