This collection illustrates what the Spaniards have done to create our current problems. But while revisiting the past is a necessary exercise, it should be clear that we cannot live in the past. We all came from our Malayo-Polynesian roots, from freedom to colonialism to freedom. Now our history is in our hands. We should create a new generation of relationship based on mutual acceptance, and write a beautiful history, our own creation.

- R.B. Rodil. Historian. Author of A story of Mindanao and Sulu in question and answer (Davao: Mincode, 2003.)

Compiled and Edited by John Harvey D. Gamas, Mansoor L. Limba, Anderson V. Villa, Janor C. Balo, Maria Janua P. Cunanan, Heidi K. Gloria, and Ramon B. Beleno