We have not disappeared: the Siraya people of Tainan County (fwd link)

[Chun Jimmy Huang]

We Have Not Disappeared: The Siraya People of Tainan County

Publication date: 09/26/2008
By Steven Crook
Taiwan Culture Portal

Tainan County, where there are few mainlanders and even fewer 
Hakkas, is usually thought of as a Hoklo stronghold. It does seem, 
at first glance, to be a place dominated by families of Han 
Chinese descent who have lived on the island for two or three 
centuries, and who at home speak the language variously called 
Taiwanese, Southern Min, or Holo.

The leaders of the Siraya Culture Association (SCA) think 
otherwise. They say that many Tainan people are in fact of 
aboriginal descent - even if they do not know it.

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