A Culture-Responsive Workbook in Bukidnon Cultural Studies

Chapter 3: The Rights of the ICCs/IPs

Name: ___________________________________________
Valgyr B. Suralta
Course and Section:________________________________
BSET 2A

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Introduction
This chapter engenders promotion and awareness of the fundamental rights of the Indigenous
Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs), which are derived from the National
Commission on Indigenous Peoples Administrative Order No. 1, Series of 1998 on the rules and
regulations implementing Republic Act no. 8371, the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA) of
1997. These fundamental rights include the rights of the ICCs/IPs to ancestral domains/lands,
self-governance and empowerment, social justice and human rights, and cultural integrity. In
view thereof, you are expected to explain and apply these fundamental rights through activities
requiring higher level of thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation, and creation. This chapter
also serves as an avenue for you to venture both on the applicability and the non-applicability of
national laws to these groups of people, imparting insights whether the national laws uphold
these rights and without encroaching the indigenous customary laws and other related
indigenous knowledge and practices.

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LOOKING BACK
Activity 8. Visual Analysis
Instructions: Analyze what ideas are being expressed by the following images below in relation
to what you can exercise and access freely before, today, and maybe in the future (15pts).
Note: You don’t have to answer each guide question. They are just guide to help you construct your analysis.

Courtesy: Google Photos

Your analysis:
The images convey the rights of the Filipino- to have a proper education, to vote, fordeserving government
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officials and right to Have fairness of the justice system. As a citizen of the Philippines, it is indeed
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significant to know how we can make a huge difference. While I do agree, there are still criminality as
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well as extra-judicial killings being done with utmost impunity. All honesty, that needs to be resolved well
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and properlawfully to permanently guarantee this in the long-term.
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Guide Questions:
1. What do you think are the ideas being expressed by the images above?
2. How are these ideas significant to you as a citizen of this country?
3. How would you describe your life without the implementation of such ideas?

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UNLOCKING
Activity 9. Brainstorming
Instructions: Read and analyze the following concepts below. Discuss each concept based on
how you understand them, not by what you have found in your research through internet and
from other sources. Hence, your answer should not be a research-based. Write your answer in
the space provided for each concept by using keywords and/or phrases (8+2=10pts).

Fundamental Rights Important Points

1. Rights to Ancestral
Domains/Lands Ancestral Domains/ Lands are all
areas generally belonging to the ICCs/IPs,

2. Rights to Self-Governance
and shall have the sole right to vest titles of
Empowerment leadership such as, but not limited to, Bae, Datu,
Baylan, Timuay, Likid and such
other titles to their members.

3. Rights to Social Justice

The ICCs/IPs have the right to declare their
and Human Rights
territories as zones of peace and to special
protection and security in periods of armed
conflict.

4. Rights to Cultural Cultural integrity shall refer to the

Integrity holistic and integrated adherence of a particular ICC/IP
community to their customs, religious
beliefs, traditions, indigenous knowledge systems and
practices and their right to assert their
character and identity as peoples.

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