christmas just days away it will soon be time for center to give up scuba diving and get back to history i. think coming up on a future for taiwan's indigenous people that people are taiwan's 2nd largest indigenous group for their cultures under threat see how activists are using tourism to protect their heritage that's in our reporter serious picture watch. list of. yourself. next you tube channel. don't miss our. show hello our feelings this is your new ball speaking when i come to the show with the ding dong xoai and concerts with the extremist guests. it's.

an incredible look. welcoming tonight. this week w. belongs to taiwan's thai all 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 indigenous heritage it was a legit disease sometimes i feel i'm too persistent to sound like a cockroach that refuses to die. that night. i. am what

i. was. born. to tie 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 has a very big but when i returned to the village for a project after a long absence i thought our culture is being neglected always was the home and as i was studying regional planning i realized if we young people don't tend to it no

one will observe with almonds. but chen doesn't speak much i tell you all 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 yat so chen says to deal with indigenous issues you need to have a thick skin at home this thing does or does it it's evil but there's no pleasing some people we ask ourselves if we should just give up because it's never enough you have to be able to put up with that the how much as you also. 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 help him with her vision of eco tourism but he's not taking the bait. he says maybe next time i said all the aussies it will be if we want tourism we have to give something back to the land so we're cleaning up the rivers and streams. the tourists can help. they learned how to paddle a kayak and help us to. the tie all considered 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 so 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. we're going doesn't it afterwards people always tell others how nice it is here it makes me happy to be able to tell people about us so you know it's a joke 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. preen her people from the shackles of history has become chen's wife 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 in one officially apologized to the indigenous population for this mistreatment they got there for shankly. the high school of non all is famous for its street dance club but it began mixing urban dance with elements of indigenous culture and went on to win national competitions suddenly they were a hippie all over taiwan. just jumped in the back. in their dances rice's. balik lee thrashed or cloth is both of this courage to combine the old and the new has helped to rejuvenating culture. to use it with 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. mikes 14 year old sister mimi is attending the daily training sessions for the 1st time she likes to dance and this proud of her indigenous heritage. if you think it's very nice that it includes traditional movements. that way the dances have even more meaning for the tie all. sense in. 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 she 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 2 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. what i didn't do that will go when i visited our old tribal lands 3 years ago i sensed this connection it was astonishing to me even though i'd been away for so long and was almost completely assimilated i'm still a thai all the meals i don't see what i saw you.

had 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 are. going up to look. the tribal leaders show off their hunting trophies pray and sing in art. by all and serve the guests know that liquor. must show one a couple more our 1st goal is to support the older people all the local tribes have sent representatives that's good yes you want them don't more people should get to know us. that's why the festival is being held here so tourists can stop and take

a look because of michael bowers and about prison following one of the speeches chen approaches an older woman and in a thai 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 growth in 1957 its residents were forcibly resettled to jim knew some of these people hadn't seen their old home village in decades. here like 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 and we also planted sweet potatoes everything was organic when we were lucky and didn't have to buy anything at the root. cunt of a job 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. was one of them. like a death in kent like i spoke and cried. then i visited the remains of my parents' house and our house and i left my name behind it being. the communal hall is a place of remembrance many here say life was harder in the mountains but it was nicer. on she used main street retired in need 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 rio him it's their former homeland in miniature human. will back then people were more helpful you know it 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. to be i on this day the conditions aren't great for long tracks outdoors but there's no stopping playing. while the seniors wax nostalgic about the past. is creating the future in the mountains. she meets with a troop of construction workers but tell you all men are renewing an old mountain

trail there we can might call trailblazers that hasn't been really do like a lot of 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 being down may you know it's ice and we young people have a little experience with the mountains so we hope that children can go into the woods again that we don't know 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 our. it's pouring rain but chen doesn't let that stop her she knows that sun follows rain and that there will be brighter days ahead for taiwan's indigenous peoples.

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