2022 National Indigenous Peoples Month

The National Library of the Philippines joins the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the whole nation in celebrating the 2022 National Indigenous Peoples Month this month of October. Proclamation No. 1906, s. 2009 declares the month of October as the month of people’s participation in the celebration and preservation of Indigenous Cultural Communities as part of the Life of the Nation.

As part of raising cultural awareness of our indigenous culture and heritage, you may visit the following digitized collections of NLP about Indigenous Cultural Communities / Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs):

H. Otley Beyer Ethnographic Collection: https://bit.ly/3afRKGM

National Museum Monographs: https://bit.ly/3abBcQh

Ethnic Tradition in Philippine Dance: https://bit.ly/3li0jXR

NLP Tekno-Aklatan: https://bit.ly/3aefDhN

Proclamation No. 1906, s. 2009: https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2009/10/05/proclamation-no-1906-s-2009/