Tribal History

Seediq History

  • Distributed in the mountainous regions of central Taiwan

  • Originating from the Central Mountain Range

    • Passed down orally

    • Mudan Rock

  • Migration of the Seediq ancestors → Truwan

    • Settlement established

  • In the 18th century, they moved out of Truwan

    • Population growth

    • Insufficient land

  • The Tgdaya group

    • Migrated to Wushe

      • Wushe group (Nantou)

      • Mukwa group (Hualien)

  • Truku group

    • Crossed the Qilai Mountain → Debugan

    • Tribal members in areas like Kubayan and Browan

  • The Toda group

    • Crossed the northern peak of Hehuan Mountain → Shang Meiyuan Bamboo Village

  • Seediq → Identity as three subgroups

    • Seediq Toda

    • Seediq Tgdaya

    • Seediq Truku

  • Originally, the Atayal people were divided into two major groups, one of which was the Seediq subgroup

    • Scholars later classified them as the same ethnic group

    • Seediq: Different from the Atayal

    • 2000 → Petitioned the government for a renaming campaign

    • 2008 → Recognized as one of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples: Seediq