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About 2.3 percent of Taiwans estimated 26 million citizens hail from 16 ethnic indigenous groups

Taipei, Aug. 6 (CNA) Taiwan's National Taitung University (NTTU) became the first higher education institution in the country to offer a doctoral program in Austronesian culture when it launched the program earlier this month.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Taipei, June 29 (CNA) The Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) has opposed granting the Siraya and other Pingpu tribes constitutionally-protected Indigenous status which entitles the 16 officially recognized Indigenous peoples in Taiwan to specific privileges.

Taitung County councilors have opposed the Siraya’s bid to be recognized as “indigenous peoples in plains areas,” as it might accelerate the Sinicization of indigenous people. The Constitutional Court yesterday heard an oral argument for the case, whereby the Siraya, one of the Pingpu indigenous groups, requested to be recognized legally. The Status Act for Indigenous Peoples (原住民身分法) does not recognize the Pingpu, who are unable to obtain indigenous status under the existing l...

Pingtung, June 22 (CNA) Agricultural scientists at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology have developed an improved version of djulis, a traditional grain variety in Taiwan, by crossbreeding it with quinoa.

Ipay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday. She died at her home in Hualien County, said Kimi Sibal, a Hualien-based historian who cowrote a 2016 book on Taiwan’s then six remaining indigenous facial tattoo preservers. Ipay Wilang, a Sediq, had returned to Hualien earlier on Saturday after being discharged from a hospital in New Taipei City, said Lo Mei-ching (羅美菁), head of the New Taipei City Indigeno...

/ Staff writer, with CNAIpay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday.

Taipei, June 18 (CNA) Aljalju rulelavan (湯瑞葉), one of the few preservers of the Indigenous Paiwan women's hand tattoo tradition, has passed away at the age of 93, the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) said Saturday.