Preserving Heritage the

Vibrant Life of Indigenous

People in Murcia

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 Republic Act 8371
• 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
purposes.
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Proclamation No. 1906
• Declared October as IP Month as “the month of people’s
participation in the celebration and preservation of Indigenous
Cultural Communities as part of the Life of the Nation.”

• The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)

emphasized the importance of celebrating the Indigenous
Peoples (IP) Month as it invites the public to participate in the
activities.
What is Indigenous People?

• The Indigenous People of the

Philippines are ethnolinguistic
groups or subgroups that maintain
partial isolation or independence
throughout the colonial era, and
have retained much of them
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How many Indigenous People are in
the Philippines?

• There are One Hundred Ten (110)

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Peoples depend on traditional swidden

agriculture utilizing available upland
areas.
History of Indigenous People in the Philippines

• While some of these Indigenous Peoples emerged from

early waves of Malay, Proto-Malay migrants, about 27 of
them, such as Aeta and Ati, are Negritos that were already
long-established in the Philippines: they are thought to be
the descendants of the earliest settlers to the archipelago,
who may have migrated there through land bridges from
the Asian mainland some 30,000 years ago.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S GRAPH

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History of Indigenous People in
Negros Occidental

• Among its earliest inhabitants were

dark-skinned natives belonging to the
Negrito ethnic group with their unique
culture. Thus, the Spaniards called the
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The oldest Indigenous group in the Philippines

• Negros was originally known as Buglas, an old Visayan word

meaning "cut off". The original natives of the island are the
dark-skinned Ati Negritos, from where the island would later
derive its name after an expedition of Castilian conquistadors
in April 1565 came in contact with the Ati in what is now the
town of Ilog.
Nelly Ambrocio
- member of Bukidnon Tribe
-NOSP-PAGKAON scholar during her College
- Bachelor of Science in Agriculture graduate at
Catholic Ming Yuan College (Magna Cum
Laude)
- currently taking up masteral degree in Taiwan.
"Importante gd ang edukasyon nga gna tawag, budlay siya
kapin pa sa sitwasyon nga ara ang kapigaduhon kag
kalayuon sang mga skwelahan pero nd na sila mangin
upang para nd ka makatapos. Padayon lang sa
pagpaninguha kay ang ginagmay nga mga tikang nga gna
obra ta sbng is sila na ang nagahulma sang aton buwas
damlag"

—Nelly Ambrocio
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