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This chapter introduces the ethnic structure of Taiwan and the status of the Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan. Efforts are then made to look into how the government has reacted to the appeal for Indigenous Peoples self-government since 2000, with a special focus on the various forms of the Indigenous Self-government Bill. Before offering some conclusions, we investigate controversial issues that have arisen during the dialogues among the government, scholars, and activists in recent years.
Cheng-Feng Shih is former Dean of the College of Indigenous Studies at the National Dong Hwa University Department of Indigenous Affairs and Development, National Dong Hwa University, Soufeng, Hualien, Taiwan, Email: cfshih@mail.ndhu.edu.tw. He is editor-in-chief, of the Taiwan International Studies Quarterly (2005) and the Journal of the Taiwan Indigenous Studies Association (2011). He is the author of twenty books in Taiwanese, including Taiwanese National Identity (2000), Indigenous Politics and Policy in Taiwan (2005), Indigenous Rights (2008), Ethnic Policy in Taiwan (2010), and Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-government, and Fisheries Rights (2014).
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The government has arbitrarily separated the Indigenous Peoples into the Hills and the Plains ones for the sake of administrative convenience.
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While some of the Siraya and the Makattao, along with the Kavalan, may be found in the east coast, the rest scatter around the great plains of the west.
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For a general treatment of indigenous rights, see Anaya (2004).
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The term Han means the human beings and thus non-Han stands for non-human beings or barbarians.
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The members include the premier, 11 ministers, 23 indigenous representatives, and 5 experts and scholars. The author is honoured to be included in the last categories.
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The author was then co-convenor of the Indigenous Working Group for Promoting New Constitution, CIP. He also served as chairman of the Administrative Sub-committee of the Working Group for Enacting the Indigenous Basic Law, CIP.
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Shih, CF. (2017). Pursuing Indigenous Self-Government in Taiwan. In: Devere, H., Te Maihāroa, K., Synott, J. (eds) Peacebuilding and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45011-7_4
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