well coming up in just a moment of course your location looks at least threats facing taiwan's indigenous people and have announced that it takes your company and. it was the speech of his lawyers tramp's his best certainly his most difficult the speech by cooling dressed him on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the middest tense the crowd clamors for german unity journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the

most interesting. stories december 19th g.w. bush of. the link tough news from africa and the world join us on facebook d w africa. they 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 ya'll in and around the village of jin you chen is fighting to protect your indigenous heritage usa we did diseases that sometimes i feel i'm too persistent like a cockroach that refuses to die. that night i.

was. born. to tell you 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 tile and a line cloth hunting a wild boar just like in the old days. but the former police station chen heads a meeting of the village development committee its goal to ensure a future for taiwan's indigenous peoples. was woman though hasn't been a big but when i returned to the village for a project after a long absence i thought our culture is being neglected all would see. the home and as i was studying regional planning i realised if we young people don't tend to it

no one will serve with almonds all. 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 tell yall 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. this patriarchal society were reluctant to follow her lead. alcohol abuse and high unemployment also continue to plague the thai yacht so chen says to deal with indigenous issues you need to have a thick skin will it hold the same does the law does it say you know there's no pleasing some people we 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 as all.

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 thai all self-confidence. 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. says all the aussies it will be us and 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 thai 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 i know what seasick i threw up it was bad. so you put the fish. over the. the guide a young thai all isn't worried it's all for a good cause as. we go down 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. freeing her people from the shackles of history has become chance 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 when officially apologized to the indigenous population for this mistreatment they got there for shako it out to. the high school of none 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 hip all over taiwan. jumped up in the bar i in their dances rice's. balik lee thrashed or cloth is both of this courage to combine the old in the new has helped to rejuvenating culture.

to use it with after our winning performance we were so moved we almost cried the audience applauded wildly we didn't but even the elders thought it was fantastic and a way of passing on our cultural heritage as a unit once in a century. 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 john hughes 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 to 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 good that will go when i visited our old tribal lands 3 years ago i sensed this connection it was astonishing even though i'd been away for so long and was almost completely assimilated i'm still a thai all the meals i see what i see you. 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 are. going to look at. the tribal leaders show off their hunting trophies pray and sing in art. by all and serve the guests know that liquor. must show when they go home or 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 how about there's a following one of the speeches chan approaches an older woman and in a tie 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 check up and do cardiovascular exercises must sitting down and today they're being treated to a special film. a few years ago residents of gin you took a helicopter ride to the mountains to visit the abandoned village of growth in in 1957 its residents were forcibly resettled to gee new 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 you see and made where

there wasn't much variety but the mountain gave us everything we also planted sweet potatoes everything was organic what we were lucky and didn't have to buy anything at the. cunt of a job there i realized how much i missed my home village. this engine 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 with you being with. the communal hall is a place of remembrance many here say life was harder in the mountains but it was nicer. on gene hughes main street retiree 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 or yohimbe it's their former homeland in miniature human and what will back then people were more helpful you know when 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 tracks 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 with you might call it trailblazers that has been really do i go into the past generations collected mushrooms and hunted wild boar here but grass has also grown over this part of her people's cultures are all. one woman he'd tell me 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 solid. it's pouring rain but chen doesn't let that stop. she knows that sun follows rain and that there will be brighter days ahead for taiwan's indigenous peoples.

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