Indigenous Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic The Ayta Mag-Indi Community in Porac, Pampanga Venarica B. Papa, Benny Capuno, Marivic Capuno, Indon Saguin, Indon Mayumo, Violeta Abuque, Norman Capuno, Lemuel Capuno, Belinda Mauricio, Jette Roldan, and July Sumayop This is not the first time that the indigenous community of the Ayta Mag-indi in Porac, Pampanga had to face a difficult situation brought about by a natural calamity, a disaster, a failure of mainstream governance, or a combination of these. This case study is a product of a continuous engagement with the leaders, elders, and community members of the Ayta Mag-indi and attempts a proximate and substantial representation of their thoughts, sentiments, ideas, and perspectives in general on the current pandemic. It covers the experiences and accounts of the Ayta Mag-indi from two barangays in Porac, Pampanga, a province in the Central Luzon region. This report recounts the experiences of indigenous peoples of Barangays Camias and Planas, highlighting how existing pandemic-related policies further exacerbate the already marginalized status of indigenous peoples in Philippine society. Barangay Camias is located in the ancestral domain of the Ayta indigenous people (IP) and is mainly governed by Ayta leaders through the most basic local government unit—the barangay. It is comprised of around 700 Ayta families. Barangay Planas, on the other hand, is where the post-Mount Pinatubo eruption relocation site is located, where about 400 Ayta families reside. The area they occupied was called the Katutubo Village, to delineate them from the non-Ayta residents (mostly Kapampangans or natives of Pampanga) of the barangay. Communications were set up and donations were sent through the efforts of graduate students of the Master of Community Development (MCD) Program of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development 53