"TRICAP is NGO", pointed out Initao Higaonon Tibal Chieftain Datu Jake Lundahay when the Observer asked him last week how is he related to that group.
TRICAP (Tribal Community Association of the Philippines)is a registered NGO, the Datu said. and of course it has legal public recognition.
The difference is that TRICAP has the membership of mixed personalities. Natives and tribal descendants compose the group unlike that of NCIP (National Commission of Indigenous People), they are of the tribal descents only.
"Nativo ug Tribu" are two different things, Datu Lundahay stressed. Nativo can mean residents of the Philippine Islands but not of the tribal groups while tribu, are descendants by blood.
And "TRICAP is NGO, NCIP is GO", Lundahay said.
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