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Truku Youth Association founded in 2001. The idea of establishment the association was to connect the Truku youths who studied in the north. They could support each druing their studies. Since the 1990s, the Pan-indigenous national movement has moved away from tribalism. Nationalism with various ethnic groups as the main part has gradually fermented after the movement. In this context of the times, the Truku ethnic naming movement emerged from the stage of ethnic politics, and the members of association joined the movement. Then, the association has shifted to social issues and participated in social movements, such as the Truku Tribal Movement, the Asian Cement Reversion Movement, the Hunting Rights Movement, and the Anti-Soviet High Education Movement, etc.
Taiwan indigenous social movement began to shift from the city to the tribe, marking a new milestone for the indigenous. At the same time, the new generation of members of the associatoin focused on social issues and shifted their perspective to the tribe. They tried to understand the impact of social issues with the center idea of the tribe, and deconstructed the knowledge of youths to the tribe, and the petrifaction imagine in themselves.
The purpose of this study is to exlopre how the youths of the assocation devote themselves to the affairs of ethnic groups. In the social movement, what paths do they choose and the reason. In addtion, through analyzing the youth’s experience of the association to record the life of the socail movements.
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