04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly five years, renewable for not more than twenty-five years, and under such terms and conditions as may be provided by law. In cases of water rights for irrigation, water supply, fisheries, or industrial uses other than the development of water power, beneficial use may be the measure and limit of the grant. x x x." Simply stated, all lands of the public domain as well as all natural resources enumerated therein, whether on public or private land, belong to the State. It is this concept of State ownership that petitioners claim is being violated by the IPRA. II. THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS ACT. Republic Act No. 8371 is entitled "An Act to Recognize, Protect and Promote the Rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples, Creating a National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Establishing Implementing Mechanisms, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes." It is simply known as "The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997" or the IPRA. The IPRA recognizes the existence of the indigenous cultural communities or indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) as a distinct sector in Philippine society. It grants these people the ownership and possession of their ancestral domains and ancestral lands, and defines the extent of these lands and domains. The ownership given is the indigenous concept of ownership under customary law which traces its origin to native title. Other rights are also granted the ICCs/IPs, and these are: - the the the the the right right right right right to develop lands and natural resources; to stay in the territories; in case of displacement; to safe and clean air and water; to claim parts of reservations; - the right to resolve conflict;[32] - the right to ancestral lands which include a. the right to transfer land/property to/among members of the same ICCs/IPs, subject to customary laws and traditions of the community concerned; b. the right to redemption for a period not exceeding 15 years from date of transfer, if the transfer is to a non-member of the ICC/IP and is tainted by vitiated consent of the ICC/IP, or if the transfer is for an unconscionable consideration.[33] Within their ancestral domains and ancestral lands, the ICCs/IPs are given the right elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/36882 14/148