the fisherman managed to untangle the creatures afterwards the eagle looked soaked and sorry for itself and the octopus swam off unharmed. it coming up next a special report on taiwan's indigenous people the. thank you for watching you have our website you have a dot com for all the latest news and information around the clock stay with us. i'm still that volume or that's hard and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. new smugglers we're alliance and. what's your story.

'd 'd on what numbers of women especially are victims of violence in terms of take part and send us your story we are trying in all with to understand this new culture. another visitor nothing yet you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. belongs to taiwan's tyo people who century old culture had all but disappeared. here where taiwan meets the pacific is the homeland of the thai all in and around the village of jin you chen is fighting to protect her and did. it's heritage usa

which is a disease sometimes i feel i'm too persistent like a cockroach that refuses to die. that i. was. or. that thai all live in communities close to 600 people live in chen's village. by the entrance to the village there's a statue of a thai all in a line cloth hunting a wild boar just like in the old days. at the former police station chen heads a meeting of the village development committee its goal to ensure a future for taiwan's indigenous peoples what we want woman though hasn't been when i return to the village for a project after a long absence i thought our culture is being neglected. and as i was studying

regional planning i realised if we young people don't tend to it no one will live with almonds. but chen doesn't speak much. her family left the village when she was quite young. to raise funds the committee began doing everything from selling millet liquor to wooing tourists so the thai ya'll could stand on their own 2 feet but as an independent young woman who didn't speak the language fluently chen also met with resistance especially the older members of this patriarchal society who are reluctant to follow her lead. alcohol abuse and high unemployment also continue to play guitar so chen says to deal with indigenous issues you need to have a thick skin at home this thing does or does it say you know there's no pleasing some people we are. ask ourselves if we shouldn't just give up because it's never

enough you have to be able to put up with that the how much as you all saw i but a decade of hard work and persistence is paying off the number of visitors is rising and there's more tourist accommodation that means more money jobs and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished that's given a much needed boost to the tiles selfconfidence. chan approaches a tourist who's fishing here she invites him to an upcoming festival and to take part in a trash collection project with the tourists out there. chen tries to hook him with her vision of eco tourism but he's not taking the bait. he says maybe next time i said no to yes he says it will buy us that if we want to or is and we have to give something back to the land. we're cleaning up the rivers and streams. huggle

the tourists can help. they learned how to paddle a kayak and help us to. the tie all consider themselves to be very robust unlike these countrymen from the west coast they did recover one piece of plastic and had an unforgettable experience so i say what's up oh seasick i threw up it was bad. so you fed the fish. over to. the guide a young thai all isn't worried it's all for a good cause it's. about done and. afterwards people always tell others how nice it is here it makes me happy to be able to tell people about us so. i look. around 90000 tyo live in taiwan chen wants to introduce these guests to a few of them at the indigenous peoples festival upset stomach or not.

her freeing her people from the shackles of history has become chen's why for 16 groups of indigenous peoples have now been officially recognized by taiwan this followed centuries of cultural oppression by western colonial powers. chinese settlers japanese occupiers and from 1949 onward by the taiwanese government. in 2016 taiwan's president site and one officially apologized to the indigenous population for this mistreatment that got them for shanker without. the high school of none all is famous for its street dance club it began mixing urban dance with elements of indigenous culture and went on to win national competitions suddenly they were hip all over taiwan. just jumped in the car and i in their dances rice's. thrashed or cloth is both and this

courage to combine the old in the new has helped to rejuvenating culture. do you see that after our winning performance we were so moved we almost cried the audience applauded wildly we didn't even the elders thought it was fantastic and a way of passing on our cultural heritage has a huge influence on the functioning. mike's 14 year old sister mimi is attending the daily training sessions for the 1st time she likes to dance and is proud of her indigenous heritage. if you think it's very nice that it includes traditional movements. that way the dancers have even more meaning for the tie all. sense and they are. making progress one step at a time their forefathers would certainly applaud their efforts.

time ones indigenous peoples are now taking the plunge and showing off their culture to outsiders. at junior's highest point a thai all woman is doing her part with a loan for indigenous peoples some help from her parents and a lot of guts shooting t.v. has built a roomy b. and b. it attracts tourists from as far away as japan and singapore tyo women have shown more initiative than the men. left in you when she was a teenager and still works as a nurse on taiwan's west coast but now she spends half her time at home. while typing a group that will go when i visited our old tribal lands 3 years ago i sensed this connection it was astonishing even though i had been away for so long and was almost completely assimilated i'm still

a thai all the meals i don't see what i see you know. at a place that's accessible by road and rail a tile festival is happening. this is the 2nd edition of the festival its motto is sharing feelings but 1st from living in the village development committee sort the trash that tourists have collected on the beach politicians will attend the party later on taiwan is now committed to recognizing its cultural diversity in contrast to neighboring china. not only look. the tribal leaders show off their hunting trophies pray and sing in art. they are and serve the guests know that liquor. must go when they go home or at the our 1st goal is to support the older people all the

local tribes have sent representatives that's good yes you want and more people should get to know us. that's why the festival is being held here so tourists can stop and take a look at all the fuss was about and how about there's a following one of the speeches chen approaches an older woman and in utter yell arranges for us to visit the seniors club the next day. the seniors meet every weekday from 10 until 12 at the community center there they can get a medical checkup and do cardiovascular exercises while sitting down and today they're being treated to a special film. a few years ago residents of 2 new took a helicopter ride to the mountains to visit the abandoned village of the row hin in 1957 its residents were forcibly resettled to gie new some of these people hadn't seen their old home village in decades.

here lie the roots of what made the time what they are. now recent made where there wasn't much variety but the mountain gave us everything we also planted sweet potatoes everything was organic like we were lucky and didn't have to buy anything at the. cunt up to a time over there i realized how much i missed my home village. this notion was there too and saw for herself how important this trip was for the older people from her village. who was one of them. like a that they gently i spoke and cried then i visited the remains of my parents' house and our house. and i left my name behind like being with. the communal hall is a place of remembrance many here say life was harder in the mountains but it was

nicer. anji used main street retiring in neat pursues his hobby looking after the model village he repairs it when the children have broken something. the settlement symbolizes the old mountain village of or yohimbe it's their former homeland in miniature human. will back then people were more helpful there was a farming community today there's so much competition already in school and people compare the cars and houses they've bought a good beat the other day. a guy got beat. on this day the conditions aren't great for long treks outdoors but there's no stopping thing. while the seniors wax nostalgic about the past. is creating the future in the mountains.

she meets with a troop of construction workers to tell you all men are renewing an old mountain trail there which you might call the trail blazers that has been on railroad you are going over the past generations collected mushrooms and hunted wild boar here but grass has also grown over this part of her people's culture are all. one woman feeds. we young people have a little experience with the mountains so we hope that children can go into the woods again now without otherwise we only return to our distant tribal lands every one or 2 years that's why a trail around our village would be very nice out. it's pouring rain but chen doesn't let that stop or. she knows that sun follows rain and that there will be brighter days ahead for taiwan's indigenous peoples.

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