Elderly Siraya sit-in protest

[Huang,Chun]

Braving the rain, Cheng-hiong Talavan, a 70-year-old man from the 
Siraya tribe, carried a giant cross made of bamboo from Greater Tainan 
and began a sit-in outside the Council of Indigenous Peoples in Taipei 
yesterday, urging the government to grant official recognition to his 
tribe.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604




and... just my personal note: without Talavan, there would not be a 
Tainan Pingpu Siraya Culture Association, where me and several others 
work together on Siraya language revitalization.

Jimmy