STS Notes: nature and believe that their gods reside in

objects such as "trees and in the

Indigenous Communities
mountains" .
Indigenous Social Enterprise Principles
•They also have vibrant pieces of clothing.
(3P): People, Planet, Profit
Their headpieces are composed of feathers
Problems of Indigenous Communities: and they often take with them ornate pieces
Degradation of Resources bases, of wooden weaponry.
Discrimination, High rate of
- •Part of the group called the Ifugaos
Unemployment, Salvage, Pressure, Lack of
built the Banaue Rice Terraces
Health Care Service, Lower Income.
- Referred to as Lumad.
Indigenous: Naturally existing in a place or
UP Professor, Palaganascited a 1986 book
country rather than coming from another
titledIgorot: Traditional Ways of Life and
place; refers also to that produced, growing,
Healing among the Philippine Mountain
living, or occurring naturally in a particular
Tribes, which explained the importance of
region with synonyms such as native, innate,
healers, ancestors, prayers, rituals and
aborigine, endemic.
beliefs in healing.
Indigena- a native
•The older generation of the Kalanguyatribe
Genes- Produce. Applied in 1640 are the main ethnobotanicalknowledge
holders
- With over 7,641 islands in the
Philippines and three major island mansip-okemploys special techniques or
groups, we have different cultural dissects offerings for disease diagnosis
practices and traditions managed by
manbunong-administers the ritual cure
the indigenous tribes.
- The two main ethnic groups within mankotom-interprets omens and sign
the Philippines are those living in the
northern part of the country called
the Igorots, whereas those living in
the south are
Igorot Tribes from the Northern
Philippines
- The Igorots are mostly residing in
the mountain ranges of the Cordillera
Region.
- The word, Igorot in Tagalog means
mountain people
- They are popularly known for being
rice cultivators.
TheIgorotshave solid and similar set of
cultural practices and beliefs. They value