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Irisan-Summary

Knowing a history of a certain place, considering its culture, tradition, language, ethnicity where they belong and its features are important in order to prove that you are knowledgeable of that place.

Irisan comes from the Ibaloi term "idisan" wherein this place was a part of Tuba, Benguet before. Understood that the residents of Irisan are consists of Ibaloi people. Irisan is the place wherein you can see the scenery of thickly forested with pine trees and a traditional houses that were made of pine wood and cogon stick roofing or sapsap. Irisan is also known as the widest barangay here in Baguio. The first families in Irisan are the family of 

Luna, Smith, Bugnay, Alvarez, Maganez, Osio, Binay-an, Copero, Dunnong, Gabol, Saguid, Menecio, Tacloy, Balaon, Ingosan and Catalan. In this families, there comes a woman who is a native from Mountain Province, 13 years of age who came to Irisan with her father in 1946. Later on, she married Lopez Osio, an Ibaloi man, and bore a son. Their relationship did not last long so they had separated. After that, she married another man, a son of the 20 or so original Ibaloi families who had first settled in Irisan, he is Felix Luna, and bore 10 children. 

Virginia Luna, a well- informed and can speak on the situation of the Ibalois in Irisan, served as a barangay captain and Barangay Kagawad. She is also a rich source of knowledge about the davelopment of Irisan through the years, a  market vendor and dealer-supplier of Baguio vegetables, not Ibaloi but as one who has married in to an Ibaloi family, and who has not imbibed the Ibaloi culture.

 After several years, Virginia cannot speak on behalf of the Ibaloi in Irisan, who it seems have become silent and have passed on to others the responsibility to speak on their behalf. In that situation, it indicates that Irisan is proof of the minorization, marginalization, dislocation, silence and invisibility of the Ibalois in the rapid urbanization and massive in-migration of numerous other people(migrant) and cultures in to Baguio.