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Download indigenous people and studies "Reflection Paper" and more High school final essays Global studies in PDF only on Docsity! history, culture and identity studies of Filipino-Muslims and Indigenous Peoples in the grand narrative of Philippine History,” and Republic Act 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 which recognizes, promotes and protects the rights of our indigenous peoples and indigenous cultural communities, including their cultural expressions and their manifestations. The indigenous peoples, or IPs as they are more commonly called, have been the subject of studies since the tum of the 20th century for three main reasons, as will be discussed later in the introduction. Previous studies about the indigenous peoples and their cultural communities have often been produced under the lens of orientalism, which views the “subject” as the “other culture,” thereby portraying the hatives as objects of exoticism. These problematic narratives have supported discourses of power and dominance (Gerona, 2005; Brewer, 2001; Canceran, 1993), all to the detriment of the natives’ culture and identity. For one, the hispanization of the Philippine islands is characterized by the Spaniards’ fixation on native “tribes,” often labeled with prejudicial remarks as malvado (evil), vagamundo (wanderers), infieles (infidels), cimarranes/remontados (mountain people) (Gerona, 2017; Gerona, 2010). The various Spanish chronicles on the history of the Philippines is replete with such descriptions.