8The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) defines Indigenous Peoples (IPs) as “those which having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them” (UNDG 2009, 8). The IPs in the Philippines refer to 110 major ethnolinguistic groups, most of whom live in the interiors of distant lands, including Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Samar, Leyte, Palawan, and Sulu. In the Philippines, IPs are non-Christian tribes, cultural communities, and national minorities (p. 79). Throughout Philippine history, the IPs have struggled a lot—from resisting colonialism to the dispossession of their ancestral domains, to defending their rights.