ABSTRACT
Indigenous peoples in Taiwan are Austronesian-speaking peoples with varying cultural practices, physical traits, and socio-political structures. Since 1903, the Governor-General Office of Taiwan (GGO) used a separate register system for indigenous households and individuals, and further divided them into two categories—plain and mountain. The Government put Taiwan under martial law in 1947 for the subsequent four decades. Social movements were largely suppressed during the authoritarian rule. Chen eventually won the election in 2000 and became the first non-Kuo-Ming Tang (KMT) president in the history of Taiwan. The Pangcah villages are mostly on the east coast of Taiwan, in Hualien and Taitung Counties. After the KMT returned to power in 2008, the Taiwanese government began to strengthen the ties with China, in part by introducing Chinese tour groups to the Taiwanese tourism market. Music has been an important part of the Taiwan indigenous movement since its early days.
