Contents: - Textiles that Wrap the Dead: Some Ritual and Secular Uses of the Binaliwon Blanket of Upland Kalinga, Northern Luxon / 3 Rikardo Shedden - Policy Innovations and Effective Local Management of Forests in the Philippine n Cordillera Region / 25 Lorelei Crisologo Mendoza - Governing Indigenous People: Indigenous Persons in Government Implementing the Indigenous Peoples? Act / 53 Padmapani L. Perez - Exploring the Capabilities of Selected Muslim Women in Baguio City, Northern Philippines / 87 Ma. Theresa R. Milallos & Rozel Balmores - Exploring the Pangasinan-Cordillera Connection: The Pangasinenses and the Ibalois / 119 Erwin S. Fernandez - Filipino Writers in the United States: Toward a Contemporary Revaluation / 135 E. San Juan, Jr.