Partido State University is grateful to be one of the co-sponsors of the Global Indigeneity Conference conducted by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, with generous funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The conference was held last August 22-25, 2024, in Banaue, Ifugao with participants from the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the USA.