Elderly Siraya sit-in protest

[Richard Zane Smith]

kweh kweh Jimmy,
So great to hear about whats going on pursuing full recognition and rights
of the indigenous peoples in Taiwan!
this has got to be encouraging that the news is getting out there.
I think some of us in quiet sleepy Oklahoma need some threatening to get
stirred up ourselves.
too many here seems to be passively accepting the occasional soup bone
tossed our way.

-Richard
Wyandotte, Oklahoma


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Huang,Chun <huangc20 at ufl.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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> http://www.taipeitimes.com/**News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/**18/2003518604<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604>
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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.
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> Jimmy
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