In Hualien County, Taiwan, we're on the eastern edge of this island, where lush green mountains loom over the Pacific Ocean. It's a region where many members of the Indigenous Truku tribe live.

As a country that experienced successive waves of colonization against a diverse Indigenous population, Taiwan is a multilingual society, but power relations among languages are far from equal. Yet ...

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Taiwan is the homeland of 16 officially recognised Indigenous tribal groups who have inhabited the island for thousands of years, each with distinct languages, cultures, spiritual traditions and ...

Sifo Lakaw, 49, is picking up his daughter from school. She hurries into the backseat, face tinged red and slightly damp from the heat of the late afternoon sun, and greets her father. He asks her ...

Taiwan has endured colonial forces over centuries. The island's indigenous people have borne the brunt of this violent history. Members of one tribe tells us what it means to them to be Taiwanese. In ...

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