Mr. Raymund F. Catindig intends to celebrate the Isabela Day on May 1 to 10, 2011 to launch a book he intends to entitle as the: “The Tribal Warriors from Cagayan Valley: The Lost Pages in Our History Book”, to commemorate the Isabela Day. Mr. Catindig shall feature in his book other unpopular historical facts and events that helped mold shaping our national history from researches he conducted, where Isabela, the Cagayan Valley and its people played an important role.
"The Tribal Warriors from Cagayan Valley:
The Lost Pages in our History Books".
(Intended Title)
By: Raymund F. Catindig.
"As a people of Cagayan Valley rich in our tradition and culture, it is just but fitting for us to reclaim our place in the lost pages of our history books. It is just but fitting for us to give due honor to our forefathers as a tribe, as a people and as leaders who helped shape the history of our nation. It is just but fitting for us to give due recognition to the roles our forefathers played in molding and shaping the history of our nation, which has long been denied from them.
”The life and times of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga, who led the revolution of the tribal warriors from Cagayan Valley during the Filipino-Spanish War and the Filipino-American War is just but one
of the best example of this denial. Even the National Historical Commission admitted that he might probably be one of the most unsung Revolutionaries the Philippines ever had. His parentage and other information about him remains mysterious, but his legacy is more essential for Filipinos to know”. His name was not even mentioned in the accounts of generals of President Emilio Aguinaldo, may be because he was considered merely as an "Ybanag" who led the tribal warriors from Cagayan Valley to revolt against the Spaniards. Aside from Luga, there were many more tribes and tribal leaders from Cagayan Valley who joined him in the Katipunan. Many never made it back to Cagayan Valley.“It is just but fitting for us to recognize them and give them due recognition, for us who remained to unite as a people and be proud that once in the missing pages of our history book, there were tribal warriors from Cagayan Valley who left their family, homes and properties to serve the higher interest . It is just but fitting for us to unite and reclaim our place history as a people from Cagayan Valley.
If there is a hero in the missing pages of our history book other than Lapu-Lapu, who stood against foreign power and won, it is none other than this gallant general with the tribal warriors from Cagayan Valley who led the revolution against foreign domination . . ."
"The Tribal Warriors from Cagayan Valley: The Lost Pages in our History Books".
By: Raymund Catindig.
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