<div>kweh kweh Jimmy,</div>So great to hear about whats going on pursuing full recognition and rights of the indigenous peoples in Taiwan!<div>this has got to be encouraging that the news is getting out there.</div><div>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><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-Richard  </div><div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte, Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Huang,Chun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:huangc20@ufl.edu">huangc20@ufl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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" target="_blank">http://www.taipeitimes.com/<u></u>News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/<u></u>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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