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*'''1933''' - Indigenous Tribes in the State of Luzon are forced by the Federal Government to relocate to the new majority-indigenous Autonomous region called “Igorotes”. Violence would ensue as several indigenous dumagats, agtas, remontados, and other negrito tribes began taking arms to defend their ancestral domains from the Federal Government, sparking the Tribal Insurgency.

*'''1935''' - The Philippines officially gained independence from Spain. In order to address the issues of inefficient governance in several territories, President Osmena announces the Integrated Reorganization Plan which seeks to redraw the administrative borders of the Philippines. Several proposals would be drawn by several lawmakers, with Esteban Garcia’s proposal being chosen by the Philippine Congress to be enacted in 1938, calling for an enlarged Indigenous state in Northern Luzon that now encompasses the entirety of the Cordilleras and eight new states from Luzon and Mindanao. When the Russo-Turkish War escalated into the Great War, the Philippine Government officially declared neutrality in the war, though the Philippines would quietly continue to trade with the British and the Portuguese.

*'''1936''' - A Group of Ni-Van Nationalists launched an attempted coup in the State of Islas Del Espiritu Santu in order to declare an independent indigenous state after news of the Federal Government’s brutality against the indigenous negritos arrived on the islands. The Coup failed when the group took over the City hall of Puerto Prinsipe only to be trapped inside by the Philippine Constabulary and the Army. All Ni-Van Nationalists were shot dead. The 1936 Elections take place, with President Osmena being elected once more for his second term along with Quezon.

*'''1938''' - The first phase of the reorganization begins, leading to the creations of the Federal States of the Cagayan Valley, Central Tagalog, Southern Tagalog, Bicoland, and Paragua. The sub-provinces of Benguet and Nueva Vizcaya are annexed to the Autonomous State of Igorotes, leading to further galvanization of the Tribal Ethnic Groups, who are now united under the Communard-inspired Alianza de Liberación Indígena. A few weeks before the end of the Great War, the Philippines would declare war on France over a disputed territory between French Borneo and the State of Borneo Del Norte. With British support, the Philippines would gain the Api-Api district from French Borneo, though there were several attempts from Ibarra-ists to convince the Federal Government to take all of French Borneo as the First Step in recognizing Ibarra’s Pan-Malay ambitions, all of which were declined.

*'''1939''' -  Second phase of the reorganization was set in motion, leading to the creation of the States of Agusan, Davao, Cotabato, Koronadal, and Bukidnon, which is another Indigenous-majority region made specifically for the Lumad tribes in Mindanao. In light of the dissolution of Moroland, the Moro National Independence League began carrying out a propaganda campaign against the Federal Government accusing them of purposefully removing the Moro’s autonomy to further “de-islamify” Mindanao. In response, President Osmena insists that the majority Muslim-state of Cotabato and Koronadal would still enforce the autonomy of the Moro Peoples, and soon establishes the Department of Moroland and Sulu in order to help further enforce their autonomy.

*'''1942''' - President Osmena signs the Military Modernization and Industry act, allowing the Philippine Military to begin buying military equipment from Britain, the Netherlands, and Mexico, as well buying licenses from the British and Dutch to begin manufacturing their own localized weapons. The Tribal Insurgency in the Cordilleras worsens when Igorotes is officially reorganized into the Federal State of La Montanosa. In the 1942 Elections, Manuel Osmena was defeated by Esteban Garcia y Ricarte of the Nationalist Party, who promised a stronger Federal Government as well as an end to the Tribal Insurgency. His election to the presidency sparked dissent among the indigenous and muslim population as Ricarte was a notorious Tagalog Nationalist and Catholic Fundamentalist.