Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples

<p>The focus of this book is on the PingPu peoples in Taiwan and their right to official recognition as indigenous peoples by the Taiwanese government. The result of centuries of colonization indigenous tribes in Taiwan have faced severe cultural repression because of the government's refusal to accept ethnic racial and cultural diversity. The PingPu Status Recognition Movement is the result of a decade of activism by impassioned people seeking the right to self-determination autonomy and tribal legitimacy from the Han-Chinese-controlled Taiwanese government.<br><br>This book examines through in-depth interviews questionnaires field observations and analysis of governmental and United Nations documents the perspectives of those directly involved in the movement as well as those affected by indigenous status recognition. Study of the PingPu Indigenous movement is vitally important as it publicly declares Taiwanese Indigenous population's humanity and collective rights and provides a more comprehensive analysis of identity-based movements as a fundamental form of collective human rights claims.</p>