Abstract
The progress of the state depends on how its nation is socialized to the country’s history and the ideology. Sulu history is however presented unfairly in relation to the overall history of the Philippines and treated merely as local history with an insignificant role in the struggle for independence and nation-building. With this historical blur placed upon the historical truth, many common people could no longer see the historical reality. These people have become captive minds who cannot think freely as their minds and hearts are fed with historical distortions found in the textbooks and social media presentation. This is a kind of historical genocide imposed upon the Tausug by the foreign historians who wrote Sulu’s history in accordance with the interest of the power structure of the state. At the top of the power structure, there is the Philippine nation-state paradigm that marginalizes further the political entity of the Bangsasug.