Indigenous Oral Histories Reveal the Amis Forgotten War | Wounds of a Century | EP1 (1/3)

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In 1999, Lekal Makor, the head of an Indigenous Amis community in Taiwan, recorded their oral history. He recounted an 1877 ambush by Qing soldiers at a banquet in the Amis village of Cepo'. The events of the massacre in modern day Hualien have been buried for more than a century. The Cepo’ War is a deliberate gap in official historical records; remembered only in the stories told by Indigenous elders. No one is sure where the story began, but it continues to this day. In 2022, the Amis called upon their ancestors to help uncover the truth buried in their village. But some members of the community were unsure about digging up the past… Chapters: 00:00 Amis Oral Histories of Cepo’ 02:50 Cepo’ 2023 03:50 Qing Expansion 07:35 Disrespecting Amis Values 09:11 The Cepo’ War 16:20 Truce with the Amis? 18:04 Amis Massacre Behind Closed Doors 21:33 2022 Amis Return to Cepo’ 26:13 2022 Amis Community Meeting 33:45 Cepo’ 145th Anniversary (1995) 34:54 Qing “Civilizing” Propaganda 36:40 Amis Oral History as Art 39:48 Evidence of the Amis Massacre 41:59 The Amis Remember Cepo’ 46:30 We Are Amis 49:10 Credits #Indigenous #Amis #oralhistory #Hualien #Taiwan #war #masacre #TaiwanPlus #freedocumentary #free #livingmemory #echoes #remember #Unburythepast #HistoricalJustice #TruthInSilence #AmisPride #AncestralVoices #IndigenousTaiwan #FromEldersToYouth #CommunityTruth #ResistErasure #ReclaimTheStory #CepoWar ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 🌏 TaiwanPlus | Taiwan to the World Breaking news and original programs. All things Taiwan at your fingertips. Visit our website » https://www.taiwanplus.com 📱 Connect with TaiwanPlus » Like us on Facebook: https://tw.plus/facebook » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/taiwanplusshows » Follow us on Instagram: https://tw.plus/instagram 🇹🇼 About TaiwanPlus TaiwanPlus is the premier international media platform providing English-language news and entertainment from Taiwan, at the heart of the most dynamic and fastest growing region on Earth.