A combination of ancient knowledge and modern research techniques may be closing the gap between who some of the earliest ...

These factions assert the Austronesian identity of Taiwan's Indigenous peoples while conspicuously disregarding scholarly arguments positing the Chinese mainland as the cradle of Austronesian culture.

The indigenous community -- which makes up about two percent of Taiwan’s 23.5 million people -- have seen their traditional culture eroded since immigrants started arriving from China centuries ago.

The people generally referred to as Negritos were once widely dispersed across South-East Asia. Today, they are found in the ...

Often mistaken as an indigenous folk song, it was actually created in 1949 by Chinese filmmakers while shooting a scene for ...

In 2016, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen issued a formal apology to the Indigenous peoples on behalf of the government for "four centuries of pain and mistreatment … indigenous peoples ...

Taiwan’s indigenous people are descendants of the ancient Bai-Yue lineage who migrated from the Chinese mainland 30,000 years ago. References to Taiwan date back to China’s Three Kingdoms ...

The KMT-controlled legislature passed a budget with unprecedented reductions from the DPP government’s request, raising the ...

ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan--While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, the indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island will remember it as the year unprecedented ...

Therefore, it’s up to the younger generation to push for official recognition, because there’s still a taboo with the older people.” Although the Sakizaya became Taiwan’s 13th official indigenous ...