1 conhacting or sub-contTacting arrangements, the conh'actor/ subcontractor shall be 2 deemed the employ,er of the contractual employee. 3 (5) "Ellmic Origin" includes race, national origin, and ethno-linguistics origin. 4 (6) "Indigenous Peoples" shall, as provided under Section 3 (h) of Chapter II of RA 5 No. 8371 or the "Indigenous People's Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997", refers to a group of 6 people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription by others, who have 7 continuously lived as an organized community on communally-bounded and 8 defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, 9 occupied, possessed and utilized such territories, sharing common bonds of 10 language, customs, traditions, and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, n through resistance to political, social, and cultural inroads of colonization, non- 12 indigenous religions and cultures, became historically differentiated from the 13 majority of Filipinos. ICCs/IPs shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as 14 indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the 15 counl1y, at the time of conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads of non- 16 indigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state boundaries, 17 who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political 18 institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or 19 who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains; 20 (7) "Racial Profiling" means the practice of relying to any degree, on race, ethnicity, 21 and religious affiliations, in selecting individuals to subject to routine or 22 spontaneous investigatory activities. 23 (8) "Religious Belief" includes the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; 24 including the freedom to change one's religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or 3