State discourse and indigenous peoples The case of the philippine agta Negritos' discrimination in the current Philippine state policy

Discrimination appears to be a unifying factor among the indigenous peoples around the world (Brolmann and Zieck, 1993:187). In the Philippines, this phenomenon is intertwined with issues which are historical, social, cultural and political in nature. Passing through all these thiCkets unscathed is practically impossible that any hope of disentangling from it all may exist only in the imagination.