How did the community view the changes?

The Community viewed the changes in many ways. When Mount Pinatubo erupted, the Aeta people came back to live in there houses and reparied any damages in their houses throghout the village.
Their lives changed when tourists began entering their land to visit the one and only, Mount Pinatubo. Some of the difficulties that they were facing was things like:

• Distraction from daily rituals and ceremonies
• Caution of hunting down food to survive
• Lack of clean water

This resulted in the leaders of the Phillipines and Luzon to declare the area of the Aeta Tribe as a National Park.

Mining in Luzon

Aeta People farming

While resisting change from the other society for hundreds of years, the Aetas have adjusted to social, economic, cultural, and political pressures with remarkable resilience; they have created systems and structures within their culture to cushion the sudden impact of change.