circa 1850

Isolation/Devolution from Manobo begins?

Lays, Molony, Reid

circa 1960

Dafal Meets

Nance (1975)

June 1971

First Meeting

National Geographic

December 1971

Last Tribes of Mindanao

National Geographic

March 1972

Elizalde’s first visit to caves

PANAMIN

filmed: Aug 1972

aired: Oct 10, 1972

Cave People of the Philippines

NBC News

October 1972

Frenandez and Lynch, “The Tasaday”

Philippine Sociological Review 20(3)

April 1973

Elizalde’s last visit to caves

PANAMIN

1975

Nance, The Gentle Tasaday

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

1976

Yen & Nance, Further Studies on the Tasady

PANAMIN

1981

Nance, Discovery of the Tasaday

Vera-Reyes and Hong Kong

1982

Nance, Lobo of the Tasaday

Pantheon

1983

Nance, A Message from the Stone Age

Film Loft, Portland

April 1986

Oswalt Iten hoax article

Neue Zurcher Zeitung

August 14, 1986

Tribe That Never Was

ABC 20/20

Oct-Dec 1987

Determination of authenticity

Philippine Congressional Hearings

1989

Trial in the Jungle

BBC

1991

Gerald Berreman’s “The Incredible Tasaday”

Cultural Survival Quarterly

1992

Twilight of the Tasaday

Elizalde

1992

Thomas Headland edits, The Tasaday Controversy

American Anthropological Association

1993

The Lost Tribe

PBS/WGBH

1994

Ethnographic and Linguistic Studies

Pascal Lays/Lawrence Reid

May 3, 1997

Manuel Elizalde dies. "Whatever controversy may surround the Tasaday, Mr Elizalde did not invent the tribe. . . The publicity given to the Tasaday has overshadowed Mr Elizalde's work protecting other minorities, equally deserving, though less newsy" At the time of his death Elizalde was financing education of the Tasaday as well as other minority peoples.

The Economist May 17, 1997, p. 94.

1998

Friends of the Tasaday formed

Seva Foundation as partner

1999

Robin Hemley visits Tasaday

2003

Bobin Hemley writes Invented Eden

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

January 2004

Five Board Members Visit

Friends of the Tasaday

July 2005

Friends of the Tasaday partner with

So-Hum Foundation

March 15, 2013

Memorial Service in Manila. Tasaday representatives, Friends of the Tasaday, and others join in remembrance of John Nance and his efforts to help the Tasaday help themselves.

TBA