Indigenous People

Education:
“From Alienation To
Rootedness”
Definition of term
•ECIP –Episcopal Commission on indigenous people.
(1972)

•CBCP—Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the

Philippines. (Feb.15, 1945)

•IPA—Indigenous People Apostolate

(March 1998)

•Dioceses—a district under the pastoral care of bishops

in the Christian church.(Oxford Languages)
 •Alienation—a state or experience of being isolated from a
group or an activity where one should belong or in which one
should be involved.(Oxford Languages)

•Rootedness—the quality of being rooted or firmly

established. (Oxford Languages)
Indigenous People Being Served
•ECIP/ Episcopal Commission on indigenous people
-- is the agency of catholic bishop’s Conference of the
Philippines (CBCP). Instituted in 1972

•CBCP/Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the

Philippines.
--is the permanent organizational assembly of
the catholic bishops of the Philippines.( Feb. 15,1945)

•Indigenous People Apostolate

--is the assembly made to unite native sectors and
Church faithful in order to create a brotherhood that is full
of trust, love and understanding amidst differences.
(March 1998)
Republic Act no. 8371 of 1997
—an act to recognize , protect, and promote the rights of the
IPs/ICCs.
• National Commission on Indigenous People.