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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>How beautifully said. Thank you. MJ<BR>
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On 11/19/11 11:38 AM, "Huang,Chun" <<a href="huangc20@UFL.EDU">huangc20@UFL.EDU</a>> wrote:<BR>
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Well I don't think everyone in my tribe cares (about recognition or about language/culture revitalization) as much as some of us do, either. I just like to listen to my uncle Talavan talk. He speaks only the truth from his heart - it's always so simple and so real: “I don’t understand what the government is thinking. We are Aborigines because we are Aborigines..." “We have to get our identity back, so we won’t have to apologize to our ancestors and we won’t feel regret when facing our descendants.”<BR>
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:49:15 -0600, Richard Zane Smith wrote:<BR>
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kweh kweh Jimmy,<BR>
So great to hear about whats going on pursuing full recognition and rights of the indigenous peoples in Taiwan! <BR>
this has got to be encouraging that the news is getting out there.<BR>
I think some of us in quiet sleepy Oklahoma need some threatening to get stirred up ourselves.<BR>
too many here seems to be passively accepting the occasional soup bone tossed our way.<BR>
-Richard <BR>
Wyandotte, Oklahoma<BR>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Huang,Chun <<a href="huangc20@ufl.edu">huangc20@ufl.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>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.<BR>
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<a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604">http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604</a> <<a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604">http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604</a>> <BR>
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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.<BR>
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Jimmy<BR>
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Dr. MJ Hardman<BR>
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology<BR>
Department of Linguistics<BR>
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<BR>
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú <BR>
website: <a href="http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/">http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/</a> <BR>
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