Indigenous and minority populations in the Philippines

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Review of recent developments in the Cordillera provinces: Northern Luzon
Center for World Indigenous Studies, 1984. The Ibaloi people, together with other indigenous people inhabiting the Grand Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon are known as the Igorot people. The Igorot number around 600,000 and we are among the 6 1/2 million indigenous or tribal peoples living in the Philippines.
Mindanao
Dialog from philippinestudies-l, December 1995–January 1996. Query on the history of the Islamic minority on Mindanao, specially about Islamic kingdoms on the island, if any, before the arrival of the Spanish.
The Bogkalut
By Sabino G. Padilla, Jr. Ph.D.. AnthroWatch, 11 September 1996. The government is deadset to build the Casecnan project that will affect the Bogkalut people of Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Aurora and Nueva Ecija provinces. A brief Bogkalut ethnology.
Stop Mission Schools for Tribals in South Palawan!
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature, 14 June 1999. Christian arrogancy and aggression evicting tribal peoles from their forest homelands into mission schools. Life in the forest was perfectly adapted to the natural environment over thousands of generations, and this harmony between man and nature is now being destroyed for progress and development. But progress and development for what?
Land for the Agta on San-Ildefonso Peninsula
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature—Germany, 22 September 2002. Request for Finance to Purchase Land for the Agta on San-Ildefonso Peninsula. Agta have lived in the Sierra Madre and on the Pacific coast including the San-Ildefonso peninsula. They Negritos, by far the oldest peoples in Southeast Asia and adjacent Oceania. Like all Negritos the Agta traditionally live a vagrant hunter-gatherer life in the forests.