| 英文摘要 |
In 1931, survivors of the six tribes involved in the Musha Incident were relocated to Kawanakajima adjacent to the Han Chinese community, where they merged into a single tribe, now known as Alang Gluban, situated in Renai Township, Nantou County. Taking the present-day Alang Gluban landscape as a starting point, this article aims to recount lesser-known stories about the tribal scenery based on oral interviews and historical records. In particular, the process of land transfer in Kawanakajima is illuminated by the Collection of the Official Documents of the Government-General of Taiwan, especially“sale on forward contract”transactions, which subsequently led to the transition to paddy rice cultivation as the tribe’s primary means of subsistence in the years 1931- 1980. After the Musha Incident, the Taiwanese indigenous peoples were generally relocated by the government to engage in paddy rice farming, with outcomes varying from place to place. The case of Kawanakajima, thanks to its low altitude and arable location, not to mention the fertile fields and paved waterways left by the former inhabitants, provided a relatively successful example of land-use change to paddy rice cultivation. On the other hand, given its geographical distance from Musha and the change in land usage practices, the tribe’s schism with its traditional culture should not be overlooked. During the 1970s, Alang Gluban became the first indigenous reserve redistricted to showcase the optimization of agricultural environment. However, by the 1980s, income from agriculture was no longer sufficient to sustain the population. In the wake of some tribesmen’s experience of working off-site to raise funds for field improvements during redistricting, more opted to leave the tribe, either temporarily or permanently, to pursue education or earn their living. From the Kawanakajima Tribe to today’s Alang Gluban, the changing land use and livelihoods of tribal members over the past 50 years shows how modern state power affected the living space of Taiwan’s ethnic groups in the early 20th century, and how the Taiwanese indigenous peoples were driven to switch from hunting to farming. |