Taiwan Indigenous News
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Political whisk: Angry Taiwan aboriginals throw eggs
"It's about our land, and the Council of Indigenous Peoples doesn't support us." The protesters, organised largely by aboriginal legislators, ...
Tea, aboriginal beads, cakes win contest for Taiwan's best products
Handcrafted with clay, they were used as a symbol of nobility and power in the aboriginal tribe. Now they have become one of the must-buy tour souvenirs in ...
Indigenous people call for minister to resign
6 (CNA) Over 300 members of the indigenous people's alliance for safeguarding the Aboriginal Basic Law staged a protest Tuesday in front of the Council of ...
Protesters slam interference in media affairs
PTS, Hakka Television Service and Taiwan Indigenous Television Service (TITV) are all affiliates of TBS, which is funded mainly by the government. ...
Legend has it that the Truku tribe’s place of origin is a large stone pillar found on the side of the White Stone Mountain (“Baishi Shan”) in the Central Mountain Range. Only some three or four hundred years ago they began to cross the Central Mountain Range and enter into the confluence areas of the Liwu, Mugua and Taosai Rivers on the East Coast. Their main settlement area is named after their own name for themselves: Truku (alternatively “Truku”), featuring the world-famous Truku Gorge. Today, this area is part of the Truku National Park. The Truku are distributed across Hualien County’s Hsiulin, Wanjung, Chuohsiang and Chi-an, as well as Nantou County’s Jen-ai Township. Their culture and customs are rather similar to those of the Atayal.
A high degree of similarity is also found in the two tribes’ myths and legends, another indicator that in spite of some apparent differences there is still much that connects these two peoples.
