04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly Cotabato and found that the word sent to him by Mamamlu was true. Then he assembled together all the people. Those of them, who had done evilly and disregarded the teachings of the Koran thenceforth, he drove out of the town into the hills, with their wives and children. Those wicked one who were thus cast out were the beginnings of the tribes of the Tirurais and Manobos, who live to the east of Cotabato in the country into which their evil forefathers were driven. And even to this day they worship not God; neither do they obey the teachings of the Koran . . . But the people of Kabungsuwan, who regarded the teachings of the Koran and lived in fear of God, prospered and increased, and we Moros of today are their descendants. (Citation omitted, emphasis supplied). [32] Id., par. 2. [33] Id., par. 3. [34] Id., par. 4. [35] Francisco L. Gonzales, Sultans of a Violent Land, in Rebels, Warlords and Ulama: A Reader on Muslim Separatism and the War in Southern Philippines 99, 103 (1999). [36] The Charter of the Assembly of First Nations, the leading advocacy group for the indigenous peoples of Canada, adopted in 1985, begins thus: "WE THE CHIEFS OF THE INDIAN FIRST NATIONS IN CANADA HAVING DECLARED: THAT our peoples are the original peoples of this land having been put here by the Creator; x x x." [37] Id., par. 6. [38] MOA-AD, Territory, par. 1. [39] Id., par. 2(c). [40] Id., par. 2(d). [41] Id., par. 2(e). [42] Id., par. 2(f). [43] Id., par, 2(g)(1). [44] Id., par. 2(h). [45] Id., par. 2(i). [46] MOA-AD, Resources, par. 4. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/47263 56/203