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Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Modern day Melanesia is composed of
Ancestral Domains
refer to all areas generally belonging to ICCs/IPs comprising lands, inland waters, coastal areas, and natural resources therein, held under a claim of ownership, occupied or possessed by ICCs/IPs, by themselves or through their ancestors, communally or individually
Ancestral Lands
refers to land occupied, possessed and utilized by individuals, families and clans who are members of the ICCs/IPs since time immemorial, by themselves or through their predecessors in interest
Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title
refers to a title formally recognizing the rights of possession and ownership of ICCs/IPs over their ancestral domains identified and delineated in accordance with this law
Certificate of Ancestral Lands Title
refers to a title formally recognizing the rights of ICCs/IPs over their ancestral lands
Communal Claims
refer to claims on land, resources and rights thereon, belonging to the whole community within a defined territory;
Customary Laws
refer to a body of written and/or unwritten rules, usages, customs and practices traditionally and continually recognized, accepted and observed by respective ICCs/IPs;
Free and Prior Informed Consent
as used in this Act shall mean the consensus of all members of the ICCs/IPs to be determined in accordance with their respective customary laws and practices, free from any external manipulation, interference, etc.
Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples
refer to a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory,
Indigenous Political Structures
refer to organizational and cultural leadership systems, institutions, relationships, patterns and processes for decision making and participation, identified by ICCs/IPs
Individual Claims
refer to claims on land and rights there on which have been devolved to individuals, families and clans including, but not limited to, residential lots, rice terraces or paddies and tree lots
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)
refers to the office created under this Act, which shall be under the Office of the President, and which shall be the primary government agency responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies, plans and programs
Native Title
refers to preconquest rights to lands and domains which, as far back as memory reaches, have been held under a claim of private ownership by ICCs/IPs
Nongovernment Organization
refers to a private, nonprofit voluntary organization that has been organized primarily for the delivery of various services to the ICCs/IPs
People’s Organization
refers to a private, nonprofit voluntary organization of members of an ICC/IP which is accepted as representative of such ICCs/IPs
Sustainable Traditional Resource Rights
refer to the rights of ICCs/IPs to sustainably use, manage, protect and conserve
Time Immemorial
refers to a period of time when as far back as memory can go, certain ICCs/IPs are known to have occupied, possessed in the concept of owner.
Negrito
Stone age
Indones
Bronze age
Malay
Metal age
Balangay
origin of the word barangay
Sen. Rise Hontiveros
The rules are made by them
Dust of islands
Spaniards called the philippines as..