The Study on the Ethnicism Change of Taiwan Aborigines—Case Study of the Truku

[[abstract]]Recently, identification issues repeatedly arouse conflicts in Taiwan society. Ethnic relation even has become politic tool which causes more opposition among the public. During the research on national identification issues, the writer finds out the connection between national identification and ethnicism which are highly similar and coincident in many ways such as the mode of how identification forms. Furthermore, in the writer’s observation, the Truku amid 14 aboriginal races in Taiwan is especially a vivid example to investigate the similarity between Taiwan national identification and ethnicism for their independence from the Tayal by their self-subjective identification. To be specific, the Truku is foreign to Taiwan society comparing to the Tayal which is one of the biggest Taiwan aboriginal races. There two races, which are relative from the same origin in Nantou 300 years ago, used to be merged into only the Tayal race for indigenous management policy and armed-force activity during colonized by Japan since 1894. After almost 100 years under one Tayal frame, some race elites have advanced campaign to rectifying the name of Truku currently. Even though the period of the campaign was full of conflicts of political benefits, cultures and beliefs, the Truku still won the campaign to rectifying their name. Moreover, the success of the Truku gives the Seediq inspiration to be independence from the Tayal as well. Since then, the defining standard, which Taiwan aborigines use to classify races, has changed from by objective conditions to by self-subjective identification. In Short, via investigating the case study of ethnicism change of the Truku, this thesis can hopefully help to understand the identification of the pan-Tayal and the dynamic development process of Taiwan aboriginal ethnicism. By the same token, the understanding Taiwan ethnicism change could be applied to comprehend the development of Taiwan national identification change. Finally, with these knowing, the writer hopes to contribute useful findings on the ethnicism change of the Truku to related study area. 【Keywords】Ethnic Relation、Identification、Aborigines、the Truku、Collective Memory