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    Indigenous communities around the world share some common traits and challenges. This document provides an overview of key terms related to indigenous peoples, including their status internationally and in the Philippines. It defines indigenous peoples as descendants of groups who inhabited areas before settlers arrived, and who have retained distinct cultural characteristics. While diverse, indigenous peoples often face threats to their lands, cultures, and rights. Recognition of indigenous identities and ways of life remains an ongoing effort.

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    Indigenous communities around the world share some common traits and challenges. This document provides an overview of key terms related to indigenous peoples, including their status internationally and in the Philippines. It defines indigenous peoples as descendants of groups who inhabited areas before settlers arrived, and who have retained distinct cultural characteristics. While diverse, indigenous peoples often face threats to their lands, cultures, and rights. Recognition of indigenous identities and ways of life remains an ongoing effort.

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    Some key takeaways are that indigenous peoples are native groups who inhabited areas before settlers arrived, they seek to maintain their distinct cultural identities and ways of life, and they often face threats to their lands, cultures, and rights from dominant groups.

    Some key terms are indigenous peoples, aboriginal peoples, native peoples, tribal peoples, and first peoples - all referring to groups who inhabited areas prior to settlers. Other terms discussed are IPs, IPRA, and UNPFII.

    Some challenges indigenous peoples face are loss of lands and territories, discrimination, lack of political representation, human rights violations, cultural and linguistic erosion, poverty, and environmental destruction threatening their traditional ways of life.

    Chapter I

    INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS


    COMMUNITIES

    At the end of the lesson, you


    are expected to have a higher
    level of understanding and
    appreciation of the following:

    Lesson 1. Who are IPs?


    Lesson 2. IP Status around the World
    Lesson 3. IP Status in the Philippines

    Definition of Key Terms

    International Labour Organization. It is United Nations (UN) agency that aims to


    promote decent work throughout the world and protect workers,
    including some which apply to indigenous and tribal workers.

    Indigenous People. It refers to a group of people, native, original, first people and
    aboriginal sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and
    other distinctive cultural traits.

    Indigenous Populations. These are communities that live within, or are attached to,
    geographically distinct traditional habitats or ancestral territories, and
    who identify themselves as being part of a distinct cultural group,
    descended from groups present in the area before modern states were
    created and current borders defined.

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    National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. It is an agency of the Philippine
    government with frontline services for the Indigenous Peoples and
    attached to the Office of the President.

    United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII). It is the


    UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and
    rights of the world's indigenous peoples

    Concept Building:
    What You Need to Know

    Learning Outcomes
    In this lesson, students are expected to have:
    1. explained the meaning of indigenous people;
    2. created mind maps on indigenous people;
    3. listed down three reasons why we should all care and protect IPs; and
    4. showed respect for diversity.

    Lesson 1- Indigenous People

    Who are IPs?


    • Dictionaries defined “indigenous” as "originating in a particular region or country;
    native; innate; inherent; natural.” The word dates back to the Latin indigena, meaning native
    or original inhabitant.
    • Indigenous peoples inhabit large areas of the Earth's surface. Spread across the world
    from the Arctic to the South Pacific, they number, at a rough estimate, some 300 million
    people.
    • Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples are so-called because they were living on their lands
    before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants—according to one
    definition—of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when
    people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived. The new arrivals later became dominant
    through conquest, occupation, settlement, or other means.
    • Most indigenous peoples around the world have retained social, cultural, economic,
    and political characteristics that are clearly distinct from those of the other segments of the
    national populations.
    • Throughout human history, whenever dominant neighboring peoples have expanded
    their territories or settlers from far away have acquired new lands by force, the cultures and

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    livelihoods—even the very existence—of indigenous peoples have been endangered. The
    threats to indigenous peoples' cultures and lands, to their status and other legal rights as
    distinct groups and as citizens, do not always take the same forms as in earlier times.
    Although some groups have been relatively successful, in most of the world indigenous
    peoples are still actively seeking recognition of their identities and ways of life.
    • In spite of cultural and ethnic diversity, there are often striking similarities between
    the problems, grievances, and interests of the various indigenous peoples and, therefore, in
    their presentations to international forums. Participation of indigenous communities and
    organizations in United Nations meetings has served to highlight these similarities.
    • It has often been the case—particularly since the emergence of new nations in the
    wave of decolonization which followed the Second World War—that indigenous peoples
    insist on retaining their separate identity and cultural heritage. It is now generally admitted
    that policies of assimilation and integration aimed at bringing these groups fully into the
    mainstream of majority populations are usually counter-productive.

    Understanding the term “indigenous”

    • Considering the diversity of indigenous peoples, an official definition of


    “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. Instead the system has
    developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following:
    ✓ Self- identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by
    the community as their member.
    ✓ Historical continuity with pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies
    ✓ Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources
    ✓ Distinct social, economic or political systems
    ✓ Distinct language, culture and beliefs
    ✓ Form non-dominant groups of society
    ✓ Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as
    distinctive peoples and communities.

    A question of identity
    • According to the UN the most fruitful approach is to identify, rather than define
    indigenous peoples. This is based on the fundamental criterion of self-identification as
    underlined in a number of human rights documents.
    • The term “indigenous” has prevailed as a generic term for many years. In some
    countries, there may be preference for other terms including tribes, first peoples/nations,
    aboriginals, ethnic groups, adivasi, janajati. Occupational and geographical terms like
    hunter-gatherers, nomads, peasants, hill people, etc., also exist and for all practical
    purposes can be used interchangeably with “indigenous peoples”.

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    • In many cases, the notion of being termed “indigenous” has negative connotations
    and some people may choose not to reveal or define their origin. Others must respect such
    choices, while at the same time working against the discrimination of indigenous peoples.

    Culture and Knowledge

    • Indigenous peoples are the holders of unique languages, knowledge systems and
    beliefs and possess invaluable knowledge of practices for the sustainable management of
    natural resources. They have a special relation to and use of their traditional land. Their
    ancestral land has a fundamental importance for their collective physical and cultural
    survival as peoples. Indigenous peoples hold their own diverse concepts of development,
    based on their traditional values, visions, needs and priorities.

    Political participation

    • Indigenous peoples often have much in common with other neglected segments of
    societies, i.e. lack of political representation and participation, economic marginalization and
    poverty, lack of access to social services and discrimination. Despite their cultural
    differences, the diverse indigenous peoples share common problems also related to the
    protection of their rights. They strive for recognition of their identities, their ways of life and
    their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources.

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    Testing Your Brain Power:
    How Much Have You Learned?

    Mind Links. Direction: Answer the following questions briefly but meaningfully.
    1. Create your mind maps on indigenous people. Write the concepts inside the circle.
    (10 pts.)

    IP's

    2. What does “indigenous people” mean, for me? (5pts.)


    ___________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________

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    ___________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________

    3. How do you respect indigenous people? (5pts.)


    _________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________

    Developing Your Higher Order Thinking

    Expand your horizon of understanding and appreciation of the lesson by answering


    the following questions.
    1. As a student how can you help empower the indigenous peoples of the
    Philippines? (10 pts.)
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    2. Do indigenous peoples benefit from development? (5 pts.)
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________

    “A good government is one with a duty to

    help everyone, to maximize his or her potential:

    Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and

    our forgotten families. We will not leave


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    anyone behind.”

    - Warren Mundine
    Learning Resources
    LESSON 1
    Print Media

    A Republic Act No. 8371: Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 and Its
    Implementing Rules and Regulations (IPRA Law).

    The Indigenous World 2018, p. 281

    Online Retrievals
    https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples
    https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/indigenous-peoples/
    https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr8/blms/8-5-2b.pdf
    https://www.yourdictionary.com/indigenous
    https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/arcticregion/Arctic-IndigenousPeoples/
    Definitions
    https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/what-is-the-definition-of-indigenous-peoples
    https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/defining-
    indigenous
    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/indigenous-
    people/
    https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wpcontent/uploads/si
    tes/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233953469_Indigenous_Peoples_Atte
    mpts_to_Define

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