WHO ARE THE IP’S

IN THE PHILIPPINES?
Republic Act No. 8371 known as
“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 Purpose.”
Chapter 2 Section 3 of R.A. 8371
Refers to IP’s as synonymous with Indigenous Cultural
Communities or ICC, and defines them as having the following
qualifications:
A. A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-
ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived
as an organized community on communally bounded and defined
territory;
B. Those who have, under claims of ownership since time
immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories,
sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other
distinctive cultural traits;
C. Those who have, through resistance to political, social and
cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions and
cultures, become historically differentiated from the majority of
Filipinos;
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