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of the ICCs/IPs to be determined in accordance with their respective
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customary laws and practices, free from any external manipulation,
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interference, coercion, and other analogous acts and obtained after fully
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disclosing the intent and scope, including the positive and negative
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impacts, of all the activities, in a language and process understandable
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and acceptable to the community;
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y) Indigenous peoples/Indigenous cultural communities (IP/ICC) - refer to
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a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription
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and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized
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community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who
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have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied,
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possessed and utilized such territories, sharing common bonds of
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language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or who
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have, through resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of
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colonization, non-indigenous religions and cultures, became historically
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differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. ICCs/IPs shall likewise
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include peoples who are regarded as indigenous on account of their
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descent from the populations which inhabited the country, at the time of
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conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads of non-indigenous
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religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state boundaries,
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who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and
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political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their
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traditional domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral
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domains. They are peoples who have a spiritual relationship with the
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land;
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z) Indigenous political structure -
refers to organizational and cultural
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leadership systems, institutions, relationships, patterns and processes
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for decision-making and participation, identified by ICCs/IPs such as, but
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not limited to. Council of Elders, Council of Timuays, Bodong Holders,
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and any other tribunal or body of similar nature;
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aa) Joint venture agreement - an agreement wherein the government and
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a qualified person organize a joint-venture company, with both parties
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having equity shares, to develop and manage mineral resources. Aside
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from earnings on the equity, the Government shall be entitled to a share
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in the output computed at a certain percentage mutually agreed upon
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by and beneficial to both parties.
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