7:42 p.m. May 10, 2023: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that about 2.5% of the island’s population is of Austronesian descent. That figure is the proportion officially recognized ...

In Hualien County, Xiulin Junior High School serves mostly Indigenous students and offers regular classes in Truku, its main local language. Other Indigenous languages are taught through live online ...

The lead submarine costs NT$51.1 billion (US$1.64 billion) for 2019–2025, a figure raised by the investment required to build ...

Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Ljaucu Zingrur on Friday thanked World Indigenous Traditional Games (WITG) ...

In Hualien County, Taiwan, we're on the eastern edge of this island, where lush green mountains loom over the Pacific Ocean. It's a region where many members of the Indigenous Truku tribe live.

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The name on his government ID when he was growing up — and how his classmates, teachers and baseball teammates knew him — was Chu Li-jen. At home, however, he was always Giljegiljaw Kungkuan, or ...

Now let's sample some summer in Taiwan. A defining moment of the season on the eastern side of the island is a three-day extravaganza celebrated by the Indigenous communities there. NPR's Emily Feng ...