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The naming customs of Indigenous Taiwanese are distinct from, though influenced by, the majority Han Chinese culture of Taiwan. Prior to contact with Han Chinese, the Indigenous Taiwanese named themselves according to each tribe's tradition. The naming system varies greatly depending on the particular tribes.
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, [3] [4] and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, [5] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.
Research on ethnic groups of Taiwanese indigenous peoples started in late 19th century, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Government of Taiwan (臺灣總督府, Taiwan Sōtokufu) conducted large amount of research and further distinguished the ethnic groups of Taiwanese indigenous peoples by linguistics (see Formosan languages). After ...
The Siraya (Chinese: 西拉雅族; pinyin: Xīlāyǎ Zú) people are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Siraya settled flat coastal plains in the southwest part of the island of Taiwan and corresponding sections of the east coast; the area is identified today with Tainan City and Taitung County. At least four communities make up the group ...
Taiwanese Plains indigenous mother and child. In The Island of Formosa (1903), former US Consul to Formosa James W. Davidson presented the first English-language account of the indigenous peoples of the whole island, which was almost entirely based on the comprehensive work collected over several years of study by Ino Kanori, the foremost authority on the topic at the time. [6]
This was approximately 37.1% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the largest indigenous group. [2] The Amis are primarily fishermen due to their coastal location. They traditionally had a matrilineal kinship system, by which inheritance and property pass through the maternal line, and children are considered born to the mother ...
The Atayal people number around 90,000, approximately 15.9% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the third-largest indigenous group. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The preferred endonym is "Tayal" [ citation needed ] , although official English translations of documents supplied by the Taiwanese government name them as "Atayal".
Indigenous Taiwanese want to abandon their Chinese names, ... Taiwan, wearing his Indigenous name on his jersey like he did in the U.S. However, most of the time his uniform still sports the ...