A large group of Palawans can also be found in Sitios Gugnan, Kambing, Tugpa, and Kalatabog of Barangay Panitian.

Matalingahan also belongs to this same Palawan tribal group although their language is 15 percent different from the Quezon Palawanos.

They built their houses usually on a hillside but close to the river or stream using four skinny trunks of trees.

Families used a slanted log to climb or to enter their houses, except for single or bachelor's shanties where a suspended rope is preferred.

A kind of cassava or rice cake placed on top of banana leaves that is quite similar to the Tagalog's bibingka.

Their choices of clothing were g-strings for men and patadyong for women or the so-called native wraps similar to the more popular malong.

One of their children's playtoys is a top that is flat, usually about a third of an inch thick that is spun on the ground using a rope of one and a half meters in length.

The Palawans are a protected tribal people under the Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) Law or Republic Act 7611.

Some may view this to be unfair as it benefits the government to deny advancement or influence the tribal people not to aspire to modernize.

At present this indigenous tribe is working with anti-mining activists and environmental groups to prevent nickel mining concessions from being established in Southern Palawan.

[5] It is apparent however that the most important things to the lives of Palawans are not being given attention especially by the government such as the need to increase their life expectancy, to provide them with proper education, and to improve their social and economic status.

There are many linguistic variations among Palawan family groups with words changing from one valley to the next (i.e. tabon for mountain verses bukid).