Voices in the Clouds

THE PLACE
USA Taiwan
THE PEOPLE
Tony Coolidge Shu-min Hsu Coolidge
Steven Coolidge Alice Takewatan
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF TAIWAN
Atayal Bunun
Truku

Questions to think about while watching Voices in the Clouds:

  • Why did Tony’s mother not mention anything about her background?
  • How are indigenous Taiwanese people perceived in Taiwan?
  • For both the Coolidge brothers, why was there a questioning of identity?
  • Why did one of the Truku elders say she didn’t know who she was?
  • How is the history of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan similar to that found in Canada?

FURTHER READING/RESOURCES:

Chiu, Hsin-Hui. 2008. The Colonial ‘Civilizing Process’ in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662.TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction Series, Volume 10. Leiden: Brill. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/viu/detail.action?docID=468149.

Coolidge, Tony. 2016. President of Taiwan Offers Historic Apology to Indigenous Peoples. Cultural Survival 40/3, 10 (September). https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/president-taiwan-offers-historic-apology-indigenous, accessed December 8, 2018.

Munsterhjelm, Mark. 2002. The First Nations of Taiwan: A Special Report on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples.  Cultural Survival 26/2, 52 (June). https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/first-nations-taiwan-special-report-taiwans-indigenous, accessed December 8, 2018.

National Museum of Prehistory. 2017. Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. http://www.dmtip.gov.tw/web/en/index, accessed December 8, 2018.

Voices in the Clouds. 2018. Website. http://voicesintheclouds.com/, accessed December 8, 2018.


Created 2018-12-08; last updated 2018-12-08