MAJOR ARGUMENTS

• Lack of justice of indigenous people’s ancestral

land claims.
• The onslaught of big-scale mining operations.
• Community members sought individual claims
and titles.
• Indigenous peoples' rights are violated, and
ancestral lands are treated as a resource base for
plunder, exploitation and profit.
 IBALOY’S CONCEPT OF
LAND
PRE-SPANISH SPANISH AMERICAN
AND AMERICAN PERIOD PERIOD
PERIOD

• Spanish • Commonwealth
• Originally used to Royal Act 141 (Public
produce the needs of Decree Land Act)
the Ibaloy. • Torrens title
• Rice fields showed • Taxation
individual • Benson titles
ownership.
IN DEFENSE OF ANCESTRAL
LAND
Cordillera People’s Aliiance

Chico River and the Cellophil

Debacle

The Alliance's main goal was to advance

a people's movement for the defense of
ancestral lands and for self-
determination
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES
WITH CADT AND CALT

Certificates of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) and

Certificates of Ancestral Land Title (CALT).
IBALOI MANSAKA MANDAYA

MANOBO TAGBANWA

MANGYAN
TAGABUKID

DUMAGAT MINDOROS