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Passing the Baton: Displacement, Return, and Resettlement

Passing the Baton: Displacement, Return, and Resettlement | Kahna mapansuhsuh
Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
Part Bunun and part Atayal, Ispalakan Umav has traveled and moved between indigenous communities and cities from a young age. This time, she has come to the Niahosa Community, a Tsou community relocated from the Tapangx Community. After completing his education in the city, Tsou youth Voyu e tosk? came back home to start speaking his mother tongue, practicing the Tsou culture, and willingly recovering his indigenous name. Their apparently different experiences and background collides, nurturing the visitors and encouraging the generation of indigenous youths.
Get a Little Taste of Tsou with Umav
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
y name is Umav, full name Ispalakan Umav. I inherited my grandmother’s name and have been using my indigenous name on my official ID for over a decade. I am the daughter of a Bunun father and an Atayal mother......
Niahosa Community, a Tsou Utopia Up in the Clouds
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
Setting out from Provincial Highway 18 at the foot of the mountain, passing by the various signage and local specialty stores featuring Alishan, the winding road into the mountain expands before us. It is the road tourists are eager to embark on, and the route of migration the Tsou people took over a century ago, deep into the mountain......
Hunting and Winemaking, the Traditional Life Nourished by the Forest
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
The forest and rivers sustain the lifeline of the Tsou while forming their culture and order. When men hunt in the mountain on special occasions, women would make wine at home to show their appreciation for the hardworking men.
Atypical Urban Indigenous, Shaping the Indigenous Identity Via Constant Moving
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
How did the experience of moving between the indigenous community and the city shape your identity? In terms of indigenous communities, ......
Crop Restoration and Hunting, the Tsou Got It!
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
Hunting, agriculture, and fishing are the various sources of food for indigenous peoples. The forestry wisdom and ethics of life of the Tsou are displayed by the tangible tools and intangible culture.
Comparing Experiences Across Indigenous Communities, Never Stop Observing
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
While talking about culture, the instructors also shared their history of migration. Can you share with us the Bunun story? According to the Bunun legend,......
Handicrafts Throughout Generations, Animal Skin, Wood, and Bamboo
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
From the unique tanning crafts to farming tools and toys, the Tsou source material and inspiration from the forest and turn different handicrafts into new community features, which in turn, is used as medium to display their culture to outsiders.
Completely Different Lives In and Outside the Indigenous Community
Written by Chiu Mu-Jung; Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
Have you any handicraft experiences in the past? What impressed you most in the handicraft class today? I am not very good at handicrafts and can barely handle things like sticking together pieces of wood to make a flying squirrel,......
Passing the Baton: Displacement, Return, and Resettlement | Kahna mapansuhsuh
Photo credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
Most of us are aware that there are at least nine indigenous peoples in Taiwan, an impression derived from the name of the famous indigenous theme park in Nantou, central Taiwan. Some may even know that currently, the number of officially recognized indigenous peoples has increased to sixteen. Furthermore, those concerned about ethnic issues would be aware that at the end of October of this year, the ruling has been made in response to the Siraya’s petition for a constitutional interpretation regarding their indigenous identity. The Taiwan Plains Indigenous Peoples are eligible to ......
Adoor Opening the Door to Understanding the Pazeh
Written by Kuo Po-Jiun; Photo Credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
As a kid who grew up in Taipei, I have met several of my elementary school classmates and part-time job colleagues who had an indigenous background. In fact, I would not have known that if they had not declared their identities. In recent years, I begin to switch my focus to the creation of a state. To explore the issues about indigenous people’s traditional territories, I approach various advocacy groups who protest on Ketagelan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building......
The Pazeh in Ailan, Puli, All Pitching in to Revitalize Their Language
Written by Kuo Po-Jiun; Photo Credit: Huang Jiang-Bing
The Pazeh is a subgroup of the Taiwan Plains Indigenous Peoples in Central Taiwan, who are originally based in the areas of Fengyuan, Da’an, Shengang, Houli, Daya, Tanzi (in present-day Taichung). During the rule of the Zheng clan and the Qing dynasty, their territories shrank gradually and became insufficient to accommodate the community, which forced them to migrate en masse to the area of Ailan in present-day Puli Township of Nantou County in about 1823. It was since then that the Pazeh people began to set down roots in the lowlands and merged with the Non-indigenous ......
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