00:00We are going to sing a new song, Chiraya's new song, Chiraya's new song.
00:05Katomana.
00:12Uma Taravan is at the forefront of the fight for Chiraya Cultural Revival in Tainan in Taiwan's south.
00:20They're one of the largest Pimpu Plains indigenous groups in Taiwan,
00:24and her family has been fighting a decades-long battle for legal recognition.
00:29The Pingpu are lowland indigenous peoples who are gradually absorbed into Han culture,
00:34leading to a loss of their distinct identities, and they're not officially recognized as indigenous.
00:40But that may now change, after Taiwan passed a special act giving the Pingpu a legal definition
00:46and allowing individual groups to apply for recognition.
00:58The legal changes follow a landmark 2012-2022-2022-2022-2022-2022-2022-2022-2022.
01:28For the nearly one million Pingpu people, the ruling was a major step toward recognition.
01:45That's because they had assimilated into mainstream society,
01:49and colonial authorities had separated them from other indigenous groups
01:52that were able to maintain their culture and way of life.
01:55But Uma Taliban is worried that it could end up creating division among Pingpu peoples.
02:00For people's身份 and to decide on the national rule,
02:08this law was tied together.
02:10With this law, we call the Pingpu peasants population of the first,
02:18second, second, third, second of the group.
02:20Or we call the 17, fifth or eighth group.
02:25Legal recognition is about more than just having an official title.
02:45Under current laws, the 16 recognized indigenous groups are granted special rights,
02:50like the ability to hunt and own reserve land, and preferential treatment in college admissions.
02:56None of those benefits are included in the new law for Ping Poo peoples.
03:20They want to make the indigenous people not any影響, so they will do this.
03:31Of course, they will say that they are good for Ping Poo peoples,
03:34but I think that this is why they want to be the first and foremost順序 of the Ping Poo.
03:44Extending those benefits to the PINPU would mean
03:47amending more than 300 articles in the Indigenous People's Basic Law,
03:52a move that could force the more than 600,000 recognized Indigenous people
03:56to share already limited resources.
04:14The Council of Indigenous People says
04:29distributing benefits and resources should focus on
04:33what each Indigenous group actually needs.
04:44And those questions about what each group needs today
04:59are deeply tied to how different groups were impacted
05:02throughout Taiwan's colonial history.
05:14The new law has given the legislature three years
05:24to grant to PINPU the resources they need,
05:27a deadline that may force lawmakers to speed up the process.
05:31Regardless of what happens next,
05:33the PINPU people still have a long road ahead of them
05:35to achieve full recognition.
05:38Yisun Chen and Irene Lin for Taiwan Plus.
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