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Photo from the Official Directory of the Philippine Assembly (1912): https://nlpdl.nlp.gov.ph/PA01/monographs/1912/37j-6175/bs/datejpg.htm (Image 61) Original file: https://ibb.co/YQv1msp or https://imgbox.com/B2ZKztwt or https://pixhost.to/show/197/391445067_61.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Paredes_y_Babila.jpg This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1928.

Lucas Paredes y Babila (1868 - aft.1938)
Lucas Paredes y Babila was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He represented the second district of Ilocos Norte at the Philippine Assembly from October 16, 1909 to October 16, 1912. Official Director...
Photo from La Vanguardia (23 May 1934, p. 5): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380212&posicion=5&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/r2YKQ9L or https://imgbox.com/hI9ZBGu7 or https://pixhost.to/show/128/450546773_bvph20160000757_19340523_0005.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_acontecimiento_social_en_Bacolod.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

Gerónimo Paredes (1890 - 1957)
From Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 467-468, Images 176-177 ) PAREDES, GERONIMO Judge of...
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José Fakangan (1898 - d.)
José Fakangan was Filipino merchant. New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 238) Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assemb...
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Hilary Clapp (1897 - 1945)
Foreign missionaries had discovered the northern highlands in the early 1900s and had found it ripe and ready for their ministry work. When the first Episcopalian priest, Rev. Walter Clayton Clapp, wen...
Photo from Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 345): https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=uI3RAAAAMAAJ&q=%22hon.+clement+f.+irving%22#v=snippet&q=%22hon.%20clement%20f.%20irving%22&f=false Original file: https://ibb.co/2cRtfJw or https://imgbox.com/NrT2jxef or https://pixhost.to/show/1041/363701271_clement-f-irving.jpg This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

Clement F. Irving (1890 - aft.1939)
Clement F. Irving was a Filipino politician. He served as the provincial board member of Mountain Province from 1924 to 1928. He later represented Mountain Province at the House of Representatives of t...

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This sub-project aims to organize genealogical data on notable individuals who descend from the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. Through this page, we strive to appreciate the unique and remarkable contributions, inspiring pride in the youth of the indigenous tribes the Philippines.

Find more at the master project page, Families of the Philippines.

Image: Thanks to http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/short-story-wedding-dance-by-amado... for the cover picture.

Luzon

The Bontoc are a tribe spread across Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Apayao in northern Luzon. Each village has its own distinct dialect, some of which are Sadanga, Guinaang Bontoc, Bayyu.

Hilary Clapp (physician and politician)
José Fakangan (merchant)
Clement F. Irving (politician)

The Ifugao (or Ifugaw, Ipugao, and Yfugao) live primarily in the province of Ifugao in Central Cordillera, in Northern Luzon. The name is supposed to have come from ipugo which means "from the hill."

Teddy Baguilat (politician)
Rafael Bulayungan (politician)
Ricardo Embrado (political writer, editor and proofreader)

The Ilongot (or Ibilao) are a tribe who inhabit the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon Island in the Philippines, primarily in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija and along the mountain border between the provinces of Quirino and Aurora.

Melecio Gaudencio Valencia (writer, musician, artist and teacher)

The Kalinga are an indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.

Max Duguiang (farmer and businessman)
Whang-od (tattoo artist)

The Kankanaey are a tribe who live in western Mountain Province, northern Benguet and southeastern Ilocos Sur. They speak Kankanaey and Ilocano.

The Tingguian (or Itneg) are an Austronesian ethnic group from the upland province of Abra.

Gabriela Cariño Silang (revolutionary)
Carlos P. Garcia (President of the Philippines)
Gerónimo Paredes (lawyer)
Isidro Paredes (lawyer and politician)
Lucas Paredes y Babila (lawyer and politician)
Quintín Paredes (Senator of the Philippines)

The Gaddang are a linguistically-identified ethnic group resident in the watershed of the Cagayan River in Northern Luzon, Philippines.

Teddy Baguilat (politician)
Gualberto Lumauig (politician and journalist)
Romulo Lumauig (politician and lawyer)

The Ibaloi are an indigenous ethnic group found in Benguet Province of the northern Philippines.

Mateo Cariño (revolutionary)

Isneg :: Negritos

Visayas

Mangyan

Mindanao

Ata :: B'laan (or "Bla-an") ::

The Bagobo are a settled people, practicing agriculture as well as hunting and fishing. They live in houses scattered near swidden fields, linked by kinship under powerful regional datus.

Elias Baguio Lopez (lawyer and politician)

Banwaon :: Bukidnon :: Dibabawon :: Higaunon :: Kalagan

Mamanwa :: Mandaya :: Mangguwangan :: Manobo :: Mansaka

Subanen:: T'boli :: Tagakaolo

Teduray :: Ubo