Philippine Tribes

Philippine Tribes                        There are different kinds of tribe in          the Philippines, just like subanen, igorots,               badjao, lumad, mangyan, palawan tribes,               aetas or n egretos, and etc .According to my research there are  14 -17 million of IPs or Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines , and t hey are mainly concentrated in Northern Luzon (Cordillera Administrative Region, 33%) and Mindanao (61%), with some groups in the Visayas area. The Philippines  consist of a large number of upland and lowland ethnolinguistic groups living in the country. The highland ethnic nations have co-existed with the lowland Austronesian ethnic groups for thousands of years in the Philippine archipelago.   The indigenous peoples of northern Philippines are collectively called as  Igorot , while the non-Muslim indigenous groups of mainland Mindanao are collectively called as  Lumad . Numerous indigenous groups also live outside these two indigenous