National Indigenous Peoples Month 2013
October 23, 2013Senator Loren Legarda
Privilege Speech on the National Indigenous Peoples Month
23 October 2013 – Senate Session Hall
The month of October is celebrated in the Philippines as the National Indigenous Peoples Month and this year, we are invited by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) for a Collective Celebration of the Culture of Indigenous Cultural Communities.
We are a historically plural and multi-ethnic society with 110 IP groups, each community possessing its own traditional knowledge and practices, which have shaped our story […]