Elderly Siraya sit-in protest

[Dr. MJ Hardman]

How beautifully said.  Thank you.  MJ

On 11/19/11 11:38 AM, "Huang,Chun" <huangc20 at UFL.EDU> wrote:

> Thanks, Richard.
> 
> 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: ³I don¹t understand what the government is
> thinking. We are Aborigines because we are Aborigines..." ³We have to get our
> identity back, so we won¹t have to apologize to our ancestors and we won¹t
> feel regret when facing our descendants.²
> 
> Jimmy
> 
>  
> 
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:49:15 -0600, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/18/2003518604
>>> <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
>> 

Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ 

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