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Indigenous Land Management Practices and The IPRA Law
Indigenous Land Management Practices and The IPRA Law
PRACTICES
EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION ON THE IBALOY’S CONCEPT
OF LAND
Pre-
colonization
Cordillera
• Subsistence
• Sustainable resource
management practices
• Bontoc Concept of the
Afterlife
• Communal Property
• Rice fields as exceptions
Spanish Colonization
•Regalian Doctrine
• Royal Decree of September 21, 1797
• Baknang Families
American
Colonization
• Public Land Act/Commonwealth
Act 141
• Mining Law of 1905
• Commonwealth Act 137
• Revised Administrative Code
Sections 1914-1942/Forest Code
• Public Land Acts of 1913, 1919,
1925
• Philippine Commission Act No. 178
of 1903
• Proclamation No. 14, 1922
• Torrens Title
• Titling and Taxation
Taxation and the
Ibaloys
• From Communal to
Privatization
• Commoditization of land
• Taxation as a foreign
concept
• Benson Titles/Block titling
• Encroachment of
squatters
Taxation and the
Ibaloys
• Eminent Domain
• Unfair expropriation
• Gentrification
• Ex. Kafagway area,
Camp John Hay,
Ambuklao Dam etc.
• Inequality of resources
RA 8371
• The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997
• Definition of Terms
• Ancestral Domains
• Ancestral Lands
• Customary Laws
• Indigenous Political Structures
• Free and Prior Informed Consent
RA 8371
Definition of Terms
• Sustainable Traditional Resource Rights
• Time Immemorial
RA 8371
Definition of Terms
• Individual Claims
• Native Title
• Sustainable Traditional Resource Rights
• Time Immemorial