palananum by: Filipino Santos
			The Palananum consist of a mixed population whose members are nominal Christians. They live in and around the town of Palanan on the east coast of Isabela. The original settlement appears to have been chiefly a Tagalog fishing village, founded by people from the east coast of Tayabas province or thereabouts. Through intermarriage and close contact with the forest and seacoast peoples of that vicinity, coupled with relations with the people in Cagayan Valley, a mixed community grew in which both a new culture and a new dialect gradually evolved. The Palananum culture is similar to that in most of the coastal towns in northern Tayabas, but it has some unique features. Subsistence is partly from the sea, partly from agriculture and partly from hunting and trade with the Negrito and other forest people. The local economic life is almost self-sufficient and depends but little on imports. Substitutes for metal articles have been developed out of shell, horn, bone and wood. Like the Ivatan, the Palanan people are almost isolated from the rest of the country for lack of communication facilities. REFERENCE Katutubo Directory-"A Global YES Event for the UN Decade of Indigenous People