Siraya update

[MJ Hardman]

And this is also what they have tried to do with both Kawki and Jaqaru --
lump them with a larger language Aymara and thus erase them.

I am very sorry to hear this.  But I know it will not stop you with the
Siraya people.  I do hope the petition can have some beneficial effect.

MJ

On 4/23/09 1:55 AM, "Rolland Nadjiwon" <mikinakn at SHAW.CA> wrote:

> Wishing you the best of luck...as a Potowatomi, I know what it is like
> to be 'lumped' into the name 'Indians' and made bureaucratically
> invisible while we still exist as Potowatomi.
> 
> -------
> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
> 
> 
> 
> Chun Jimmy Huang wrote:
>> Friends and colleague on ILAT,
>> 
>> I don't know if this is related to the petition and the scheduled
>> street demonstration on May 2nd, but it may be, because all street
>> demonstration in Taiwan needs to be registered first.
>> 
>> So as I mentioned in the petition
>> (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Siraya-reclamation), Siraya is but
>> one of the 11 indigenous peoples in Taiwan that have not been
>> officially recognized by the central government (under KMT, or the
>> Chinese Nationalist Party). But the fact is that the local government
>> of Tainan County, which is the Siraya homeland, under the localist
>> Democratic Progressive Party, has since earlier this year invited
>> Siraya individuals to register as "aborigine."
>> 
>> Unfortunately, just yesterday (April 21st) the Center of Indigenous
>> Affairs sent an order to Tainan County government saying that it is
>> illegal to register Siraya. Besides, the central government ordered to
>> delete the "other" category on identity registration (the dominant Han
>> people are default and needs no category; the 14 officially recognized
>> peoples each has an ethnic category; the 11 unrecognized peoples WERE
>> all lumped into "other"). So now even in their/our homeland the Siraya
>> people have become illegal and non-existent.
>> 
>> Still, the petition continues and the demonstration will take place as
>> planned.
>> 
>> 
>> Chun (Jimmy) Huang
>> PhD candidate,
>> Linguistics, University of Florida
>> Linguistic consultant,
>> Tainan Pingpu Siraya Culture Association
>> 
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