The realities of growing up indigenous in Taiwan 

As an Indigenous Native American woman…Stay Strong, United and Positive. This is the first time I heard about you. I wish you the best FUTURE and that you achieve your goals and dreams. 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️‍🔥🇺🇸

I’m very interested in the indigenous cultures in Taiwan. I hope someday to be able to visit and learn about them.

When Chinese-Han and Taiwanese-Han fight over the island of Formosa,, but here are the true inhabitants of the land being deprived of their rights and privileges in their own territory. Thanks for the Taiwanese government's efforts for the indigenous groups but I think it's not enough.

The indigenous people of Taiwan are family to us in Malaysia and Indonesia. We share the same ancestors ❤

I hope that their culture will be prosperous and beautiful. As they are family to us polynesians

Im learning Amis language here in the Philippines and would love to make it grow here and practice the culture as many people here are thirsty to know their roots not the hispanic but the Austronesian, I feel its returning to our roots and unite with Taiwan to save our common culture from being erased and hananized Nga ayho Pangcah Philippines west philippine sea.

Solidarity for indigenous people everywhere

Kia Ora to our kuzzies from Taiwan ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 from Aotearoa Māori

When I have visited a cultural aboriginal center in Pingtung, 🇹🇼 they gave me a warm welcome 😀👍. From my French 🗼🇫🇷 tourist prospective, the visit was interesting.

I want to visit Taiwan so, I can learn more about my ancestors! 😊

What a great video ! Thank you ! Where can we watch Taiwan Indigenous Television and other Taiwanese indigenous -like contents please ? Very important to preserve ancestor's culture

really interesting topic, I empathize and relate to this although not native Taiwanese i do belong to an Asian ethnic minority group also.

I ❤️ 💕 💗 Taiwan😊

They are austronesian people like those people in southeast asia like the philippines, indonesia & malaysia...

They were there before anyone else. Respect them

Han Chinese are just immigrants of FORMOSA NOW TAIWAN...

Two years later, I wonder if Yukan eventually became a teacher for Indigenous Language.

So this means that the Taiwanese are mostly Chinese people who took these innocents' land?? What the heck? o_O

Why don't the government encourage, say, 30% of the Han people to learn the language and take it up in school. That way the language will be relevant. Otherwise it will continue to be squeezed indefinitely.

These indigenous peoples of the mountain areas are the roughest people imaginable. They hunt deer and boar in steep jungle forests with primitive weapons. I have met them in Hualien near Tacoma Gorge. These are the original inhabitants before the Han immigrants. They have a rich culture and history. They share a language known as Austronesian that extends southward to Madagascar and most of the islands in the South Pacific. They came to Taiwan in outrigger canoes and resisted both the Chinese, Dutch and Japanese invaders. Before that, they cooked and ate shipwrecked sailors from Europe and Japan. China’s emperors considered them ungovernable barbarians. But their societies were cohesive and showed community activities in fishing, hunting, playing and sports. Early photos of them show how rugged they were, both men and women. Heavily tattooed bodies and faces. They were like Comanches on steroids without horses. Japanese soldiers hated to go into the mountains looking for them. Museums will sometimes display indigenous art which tell stories over many centuries.

They are our ancestors from Indonesia

Dont worry lima gang still here in indonesia, malaysia, brunai, Filipina, ocenia raya, new zeland , hawai, india, and I dont know where else.

Austronesian people should be united Thu we have difference in languages and in different islands,, anyway we all came from one ancestors that spread around Asia,,, we should not allow colonialism to dissolve our originality,, there should be inter action between islands ,,,,,,,,, ♥️♥️♥️♥️ sugbo 🇵🇭

我是長期住在澳洲的泰雅族人，台灣原住民是神所揀選、所愛的人，我們是蒙祝褔的，因為我們認識獨一真神YAHWEH, Jesus loves us❤

So therefore China has no rightful claim to the island .

Yeah the Austronesians got replaced within there own land pretty quickly mainly from The Han Chinese yeah

We’re all indigenous from somewhere, shame that so many Han of Taiwan despise their own indigenous roots, along with other peoples

We respect the indegenous people of Taiwan for their ancestors are the ones that introduce rice🍚🌾 farming and agriculture to the rest of asia 🥰, they are one of the ancestral roots of south east Asia. Don't look down on your self just because snobby people criticized your roots , be proud of your roots , when others look down on me and bullies me just because of my ethnicity my tribe my elders always said to be proud of my ethnicity .so I'm proud to be igorot and I don't care about the lowland Luzon tagalogs and lowland ilocano's rude stereotypes, I know my ancestors and I am proud of them, I don't care how much lies the pre Hispanic said to our colonized low land neighbors that influenced them into thinking they're better than the rest of the ethic groups in the Philippine archipelago ,but some day hopefully we would have a better Unity along with the rest of the tribes and locals in Mindanao with out them the rest believing in bad stupid stereotypes. Maybe some day we would have unity and appreciate each other's diverse culture . Atleast Indonesia manage to get along with the rest of their ethnic groups just like the Formosa tribes uniting to get each other too☺️

Land of all of us Austronesian Ppl ancestor. Not the chinese

there are 17 tribes in Taiwan most of them came from the northern part of the Philippines, they are closely related to Ifugao tribe or generally known as Igorots

Look at the indigenous people body built and the eyes !! It totally different compare to the Han people so tell me when did the Paiwan people become Chinese ?? Victors of the war get to write the history and it’s lies #fact democratic of china moved to Formosa or Taiwan to regroup because they have lost the mainland battle against the communist and that’s the real story to it .. Paiwan people never been china or Chinese

I mean... Is there no formal version of the traditional clothes? Why a ⛛? I really hope they dont lose this tho.

The people from Taiwan migrate to the Pacific taking with them the taro plant ....just imagine if they didn't take the taro plant with them........

Can you have English translations?

Part of AUSTRONESIAN BIG FAMILY 420 Millions around the World..!! LIMA GANG..!! 👍

I think merging all the indigenous languages into a single standard Formosan language would help in promoting and preserving it

Annette Lu, Taiwan's former vice president, said that aboriginals should leave Taiwan and go to Latin American countries. Taiwan has some serious racism.

Most Taiwanese are mixed -- they just don't know it. Indigenous culture was surpressed during the white terror era. It was safer to "be" Chinese.

Save Austronesia formosa

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This is why I don't like how people are pushing for "Taiwanese independence". The indigineous people won't have a voice if the ethnically Chinese people have the upper hand if they can get their country "free".

and yet CCP try to invade taiwan as part of their territory.. 🤣.. too many angry chinese from mainland china about visit from higher officials in U.S. to Taiwan Island.. long live Austronesian family!

They are Chinese not taiwanese for me.

Your close relative are the Filipinos . Learn the Tagalog language

Poor people got colonised by the people who want a free taiwan lol

Thus young guy that is a Aboriginal Organizer is clearly NOT Aboriginal Taiwanes, He looks FOB from Hing Kong! PhD Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley.