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