Indigenous

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Sometimes forgotten issues, people or stories come up from oblivion and awake something in the collective imagination. Sometimes also the protagonists in those stories become part of a legend, whose historical origins are difficult to track down.
This is more or less what happened to a group of people who are said to have lived in the remote mountains and plains of the Japanese archipelago until the 1970s. They are the Japanese gypsies or sanka [ja], written as 山家 (people of the mountains) or 山窩 (mountains nomads).

Written by Portnoy Zheng

Taiwan's indigenous population are often flattered by politicians as being the country's “real masters” or “original inhabitants”; they have been used to promote Taiwan tourism in television commercials around the world.

Written by Sara Moreira

By Sara Moreira · Translated by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · View original post [pt]

By Paulina Aguilera Muñoz · Translated by Stephen Cairns · View original post [es]