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. ...
Alice Takiwatan
Alice Takiwatan, leader of the Taiwan Multicultural Arts Group (TMAG), has been actively involved with the indigenous arts and culture community in Taiwan for nearly thirty years. Formerly a teacher of gifted children, Alice is a well regarded writer and speaker on indigenous art and culture in Taiwan, and a dedicated peace activist. Over the last ten years she has been heralded as one of Taiwan's greatest living artists, an outstanding community leader, a "communicator between marginalized people and mainstream society," "spokesperson for Taiwan's indigenous peoples," and a "living fossil from the archives of Taiwan's indigenous peoples" by the aboriginal community and indigenous affairs groups within the government of Taiwan and the Taipei City Council.
Hoping to enhance people's mostly superficial knowledge of Taiwan's indigenous cultures and traditions, Alice founded TMAG to provide richer, subtler interpretations of the diverse indigenous heritage native to Taiwan. Because of the depth and breadth of her knowledge in this area, Alice and her group has been invited on numerous occasions to plan and produce a wide variety of performance programs for local and international indigenous heritage events. Alice is now working to establish the Shaduan Culture Institute to promote teacher training programs on indigenous culture education.