The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), a government agency, described the violence against the Lumad as an attack on Philippine culture: 
Tume ya Taifa ya Utamaduni na Sanaa (NCCA), moja ya taasisi za serikali, ilielezea kuwa, ukatili dhidi ya Lumad kuwa ni shambulio dhidi ya utamaduni wa Kifilipino: