Kadazan-Dusun

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Kadazan-Dusun (also simply written as Kadazandusun) is a combined term for two closely related indigenous ethnic groups of Sabah in Malaysia, which is formed as an amalgamation of the closely related Kadazan and Dusun peoples. They formed the main and largest indigenous group in the state, numbering almost a million individuals, with the population concentrated in Sabah's West Coast Division, upper Interior Division, and Kudat Division, as well as within the Sandakan and Tawau divisions. It is also an umbrella term that encompasses various sub-ethnicities, tribes and sub-tribes under both the Kadazan and Dusun labels, with the language typically billed as Kadazan-Dusun, belonging to the Dusunic languages family, an Austronesian language in the northern part of Borneo Island, while several Kadazan-Dusun tribes' languages also fall under different Sabahan language families, such as the Paitanic languages. Their deep tradition holds that they are descended from the Nunuk Ragang, although not all the ethnics under the Kadazan-Dusun category came from the same location. With their main traditional occupation as agriculturalists, the Kadazan-Dusun celebrate the annual Kaamatan festival to honour their paddy's spirit, the Bambarayon (Bambaazon). Their paramount leader is called Huguon Siou (brave leader), with the majority of their ethnicity now adhering to Christianity, a shift from their traditional religion (Momolianism) following interaction with European powers through the administration of British North Borneo. Towards their animist-pagan past before the arrival of Christianity and Islam, the Kadazan-Dusun practised headhunting together with another closely related indigenous ethnic group, the Muruts. Throughout the British administration, the Kadazan-Dusun are categorised under the "Dusun" or "Dusunic people" ethnic categorisation, where they are closely related to other Dusunic peoples of Rungus and the Bornean Bisaya, Tombonuo and Orang Sungei (both belonging to the Paitanic people branch) as well as the Murut and Tidung (Murutic people branch). Since 2004,...