SUMMARY OF IRISAN HISTORY (Creative Non-Fiction)

Do we really know the story of Irisan? The every small details of Irisan or the whole story behind it? Let me share some of the story behind it.

IRISAN

Come from the Ibaloi Term "Idisan"(a wood used to grind something to

make it fine.

Used to be a part of TUBA,Benguet under the first mayor of Tuba,

JOAQUIN SMITH. 

. 

With the traditional Houses were made of pine wood and cogon stick

roofing or sapsap.

There was also a creek nearby where gold panning was done and lime
quarry (Apugan). THe lime wuarry was later
on bought by the

BENGUET CONSOLIDATED
INCORPORATION (BCI). The lime kiln

was a joint venture between the Ibaloi Felipe
Pucay and the BCI.

Catalino Pablo, the father of Virginia Luna, who found work as a

Carpenter in the lime kiln. 

Upon graduation from high school,
Virginia Luna married Lopez Oseo,
a local Ibaloi with one son but then
they separate. Later, she married
Felix Luna a local Ibaloi and they
have nine children, one adopt and
one step

sister.

Igorots claims 211 titles. Eventually, these titled
were sold to people
from Manila and converting the land into a
subdivision, houses,

buildings and houses. Like CooYeeSan, back then
known as the

Baguio Military Institute school for rich people. 
Every settlers paid

their land for  P2.00 per square meter.

As time passed by, Irisan was developand brought drastic changes to

Irisan.

Irisan now has the biggest population of all barangays in the city. It is

divided into 33 purok, composed of settlers from CAR, Manila and other

lowland province.

Virginia Luna is a true source of knowledge. Not an Ibaloi by blood but
speaks as one who has married into an Ibaloi family. 

Irisan is proof of the minorization, marginalization,dislocation,silence
and invisibility of the Ibalois in the face of rapid urbanization and
massive in-migration of numerous other people and cultures into
Baguio.