...while some non-indigenous Filipinos got the misleading idea that their history and culture were lost to colonization, a different but connected history was happening for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) of the Philippines. Americans and non-indigneous Filipinos alike pushed the idea that IPs were backwards, primitive, and not worthy to be part of the official Filipino national identity. The Philippines marginalized IPs as part of its attempts to create a singular national identity through land and natural resource grabbing, language erasure, and discriminatory policies. Following the lead of American colonizers, the Philippine nation-state targeted non-Christian tribal groups like the Igorots, Aetas, Lumadnon, Mangyan, and more throughout the last 100 years. To this day, IPs are propped up as artifacts of an imagined precolonial past and incapable of existing fully in the present. This has led to state violence, like land grabbing in the Philippines and constant discrimination and harassment. IPs are often not allowed to speak, tell their own truths, or challenge the incorrect narratives.