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  2. Indigenous peoples of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...

  3. Philippine House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities ...

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    The Philippine House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples, or House Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives.

  4. Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 - Wikipedia

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    The term indigenous cultural communities (ICCs) was used in the Philippine Constitution to describe a group of people sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized a territory.

  5. National Commission on Indigenous Peoples - Wikipedia

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    The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is the agency of the national government of the Philippines that is responsible for protecting the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. [2] The commission is composed of seven commissioners. It is attached to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

  6. Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...

  7. Tagbanwa - Wikipedia

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    The Tagbanwa people (Tagbanwa: ᝦᝪᝯ) are an indigenous people and one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Philippines, mainly found in central and northern Palawan. Research has shown that the Tagbanwa are possible descendants of the Tabon Man [citation needed], thus making them one of the original inhabitants of the Philippines. [2]

  8. Teduray people - Wikipedia

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    The Teduray are an indigenous peoples in Mindanao, Philippines. They speak the Teduray language. Their name may have come from words tew, meaning people, and duray, referring to a small bamboo hook and a line used for fishing. [2] The Teduray culture was studied at length in the 1960s by anthropologist Stuart A. Schlegel.

  9. Kalinga people - Wikipedia

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    The Kalinga people [2] [3] [4] (IPA:) are an indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines. [5] They are mainly found in Kalinga province which has an area of 3,282.58 sq. km. Some of them, however, already migrated to Mountain Province, Apayao, Cagayan, and Abra. [6]