Indigenous Where we can What are their What are the What are your

Communities find them? basic features? problems/issues insights to these

they IPs?
encountered?
1. HANUNOO- In a mountainous Organized, There is no I’m impressed by
MANGYAN region in the disciplined institutionalized this tribe since
southeastern part or formal they don’t have a
of Mindoro sociopolitical “leader”. It’s
Island. leader in this local impressive how
community. they handle their
problems without
having conflict
with other
members of their
group.
2. LUMADS Sulu; Mindanao Witty Territorial Despite all the
ownership over things they’ve
Sabah made lots been through,
of Muslim they still managed
Filipinos and to get on their
Malaysians die feet and start
and are dispersed anew. Thanks to
and routinely the Bangsamoro
experienced Juridical Entity.
displacement and
tremendous
pressure to
assimilate.
3. BADJAO From the coastal Adaptive, The Badjaos were Despite having
areas of undismayed marginalized, their ‘old life’
Zamboanga Bay excluded from taken from them,
to the Sulu positions of they adapted
Archipelago power, despised, really well to their
and confined to environment for
Temporary settled the lowest rungs their survival.
in Purok 4, of the social
Barangay ladder. They also
Tambacan, Iligan lost their
City traditional fishing
grounds to
commercial
fishing. They were
called to be
squatters and
mendicants.
4. BUGKALOTS/ East of Luzon Combatant, Their headhunting I find it scary how
ILONGOTS (Sierra Madre and fierce, predatory tradition was the Bugkalots
 Caraballo stopped. The lighten their
mountains) Ilongot mood by tossing a
themselves severed head of
attribute the person they
sociocultural killed. If they still
changes, practice that up to
particularly the this day, I will
ceasing of surely not to piss
headhunting, not off any Bugkalots.
to the influx of
education and
development
programs
sponsored by the
government, but
to the entry of the
Gospel into their
lives.
5. IGOROTS Cordillera; Rouge defiant, They were Not to be biased
Northern Luzon resistive, bold, colonized by the but I think that
organized Spanish Empire the Igorots are
for three the most
centuries. organized among
all other
indigenous
communities.
They were able to
preserve their
cultures and
traditions despite
having been
colonized by the
Spaniards. They
valued their
historical
traditions even if
it was not written
and still do it until
now.