TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Indigenous population reached 629,000 in 2025, according to the Ministry of the Interior. This was a 2.9% increase from 2024, per CNA. The Amis recorded 235,000 members ...

Taiwan’s first female aboriginal director Laha Mebow is presenting her upcoming feature “The Skull Oracle,” a dark intergenerational story about women of the Tayal indigenous people, at Busan’s Asian ...

Taiwan is the homeland of 16 officially recognised Indigenous tribal groups who have inhabited the island for thousands of years, each with distinct languages, cultures, spiritual traditions and ...

What does it mean to not only lose access to your own culture, but to your own name? This is one of the questions posed by Breaking Ground: Art and Activism in Indigenous Taiwan, an exhibition I ...

Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...

Mickela learns dance & music traditions from Taiwan’s Amis & Tsou indigenous communities. Of the 16 federally recognized tribes in Taiwan, Mickela meets with the Amis tribe, the largest of the tribes, ...