On August 1^st, 2016, Taiwanese president Tsai-Ing Wen officially apologized to the island’s Indigenous peoples for centuries of “pain and mistreatment.” Taiwan is home to over 500,000 Indigenous people (roughly 2 percent of Taiwan’s 23 million citizens), speaking 14 different languages. Since the 17^th century, Indigenous tribes, who have inhabited the region for over 6,000 years, have lost ancestral land rights and have had traditional livelihoods, culture, and language subjected to colonial policies of displacement, dispossession, and destruction.Read More