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who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political
institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional
domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains."
Indigenous Cultural Communities or Indigenous Peoples refer to a group of
people or homogeneous societies who have continuously lived as an
organized community on communally bounded and defined territory. These
groups of people have actually occupied, possessed and utilized their territories
under claim of ownership since time immemorial. They share common bonds of
language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or, they, by their
resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous
religions and cultures, became historically differentiated from the Filipino majority.
ICCs/IPs also include descendants of ICCs/IPs who inhabited the country at the time
of conquest or colonization, who retain some or all of their own social, economic,
cultural and political institutions but who may have been displaced from their
traditional territories or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains.
1. Indigenous Peoples: Their History
Presently, Philippine indigenous peoples inhabit the interiors and mountains of
Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Samar, Leyte, and the Palawan and Sulu group
of islands. They are composed of 110 tribes and are as follows:
1. In the Cordillera Autonomous Region-- Kankaney, Ibaloi, Bontoc,
Tinggian or Itneg, Ifugao, Kalinga, Yapayao, Aeta or Agta or Pugot, and
Bago of Ilocos Norte and Pangasinan; Ibanag of Isabela, Cagayan;
Ilongot of Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya; Gaddang of Quirino, Nueva
Vizcaya, Itawis of Cagayan; Ivatan of Batanes, Aeta of Cagayan, Quirino
and Isabela.
2. In Region III-- Aetas.
3. In Region IV-- Dumagats of Aurora, Rizal; Remontado of Aurora, Rizal,
Quezon; Alangan or Mangyan, Batangan, Buid or Buhid, Hanunuo and
Iraya of Oriental and Occidental Mindoro; Tadyawan of Occidental
Mindoro; Cuyonon, Palawanon, Tagbanua and Tao't bato of Palawan.
4. In Region V-- Aeta of Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur; AetaAbiyan, Isarog, and Kabihug of Camarines Norte; Agta, and Mayon of
Camarines Sur; Itom of Albay, Cimaron of Sorsogon; and the Pullon of
Masbate and Camarines Sur.
5. In Region VI-- Ati of Negros Occidental, Iloilo and Antique, Capiz; the
Magahat of Negros Occidental; the Corolano and Sulod.
6. In Region VII-- Magahat of Negros Oriental and Eskaya of Bohol.
7. In Region IX-- the Badjao numbering about 192,000 in Tawi-Tawi,
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