such. i'm. sure. 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 tie 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 did was woman though has a baby but when i returned to the village for a project after a long absence i thought our culture is being neglected i always use. the home and as i was studying regional planning i realised if we young people don't tend to it no one will observe with ballance out. but chen doesn't speak much of 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 tyrrell 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 plague the thai yacht so chen says to deal with indigenous issues you need to have a thick skin at home this thing this is. the woman 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 is yours 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 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 well we will use that 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 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 thought what's up i know what 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 down. 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. her even her people from the shackles of history has become chen's wife or 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 open eyes to the indigenous population for this mistreatment that was a shocker 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 back. in their dances rice's. and balik lee thrashed or cloth is voted this courage to combine the in the new has helped to rejuvenating culture. do you see 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 as a huge influence on the 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 ok 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. 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 into the will go when i visited our old tribal lands 3 years ago i sensed this connection it was astonishing to me 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 said 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 the 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 the thai isle and serve the guests know that licker. almost 01 a couple more our 1st goal is to support the older people from all the local tribes have sent representatives that's good yes you want the 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 michael bowers out of the 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 the rock in in 1957 its residents were forcibly resettled to gene 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 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 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. who 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 you with. the communal hall is a place of remembrance many here say life was harder in the mountains but it was nicer. on john 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 rio him it's their

former homeland in miniature hewitt and. back then people were more helpful you know 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 every day. i 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 we can might call trailblazers that has 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 of. one woman. 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 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 all. 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. the for.

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