When the administrative districts are not their “household registration” ── indigenous people’s co-management committee and ethnic assembly in Taiwan
Update: 2024-04-16
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Indigenous peoples are the earliest inhabitants of Taiwan. However, during the Japanese colonial rule, the Government-General of Taiwan ignored the territories of the mountain indigenous tribes, considering Taiwan's mountain forests as "nobody’s land" and all were designated as national resources. Subsequently, after the Nationalist government arrived in Taiwan in 1945, they continued Japan's forest policies, causing these lands that originally belonged to the tribes to become state lands. Indigenous peoples now face numerous restrictions and prohibitions if they wish to use their ancestral land for farming, hunting, or foraging.
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