Pingpu Plains Indigenous Rights Advance as Taiwan Passes Landmark Bill

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Taiwan's legislature has passed a special act allowing Pingpu Plains Indigenous groups to apply for official recognition. The move comes ahead of a court-mandated deadline and marks a turning point in a decades-long fight for Indigenous status.

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00:00The legislature has passed a special act that would allow Taiwan's Pingpu Plains Indigenous

00:05groups to apply for recognition, a goal they have been advancing toward for over 20 years.

00:11The move comes just days before a deadline set by a 2022 Constitutional Court ruling.

00:17The ruling stated that all Austronesian-speaking peoples beyond Taiwan's 16 recognized Indigenous

00:23groups should be allowed to identify legally as Indigenous.

00:27Pingpu peoples have largely assimilated into Taiwan's Han-Chinese majority and are not

00:33currently recognized.

00:35The Council of Indigenous Peoples said nine Pingpu groups have applied for recognition

00:40and their cases will be reviewed fairly and transparently.

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