National Indigenous Peoples Cultural Summit: “Our actions and inaction have placed indigenous peoples’ lives on the line, despoiled their lands, threatened their culture and deprived them of their rights. Our eyes were opened to the depth and diversity of the challenges our IPs face. The question I now pose to everyone of us: How sincerely will we address these issues that affect our IPs’ very survival?,” Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities points out in her keynote speech at the National Indigenous Peoples Cultural Summit in Manila.