Taiwan’s Executive Yuan will ratify the Sakizaya (撒奇萊雅 \/ Sāqíláiyǎ) as an indigenous tribe on January 17, raising the number of officially recognized tribes here to thirteen. <\/p>\n
During Japan’s rule over Taiwan (1895-1945), Japanese ethnologists classified the Sakizaya as members of the Ami. Later scholars, however, have distinguished the two groups as a separate because of linguistic differences and the Sakizaya’s sense of their own identity. <\/p>\n
Representatives of the Sakizaya applied in 2004 with the Council of Indigenous Peoples for official recognition. <\/p>\n
The Sakizaya live mainly in Hualian City and Hualian County’s townships of Shoufeng, Ruisui, and Fengbin.<\/p>\n
I hope to find more information about the tribe’s language, as well as the origins of the tribe’s name. <\/p>\n
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Taiwan’s Executive Yuan will ratify the Sakizaya (撒奇萊雅 \/ Sāqíláiyǎ) as an indigenous tribe on January 17, raising the number of officially recognized tribes here to thirteen. During Japan’s rule over Taiwan (1895-1945), Japanese ethnologists classified the Sakizaya as members … Continue reading