Young Taiwanese reconnect with indigenous roots to heal trauma

Olive branch: President Tsai Ing-wen formally apologising to Taiwan's indigenous people who were evicted from their land and banned from speaking their own languages, in 2016. -Handout from Taiwan's Presidential Office

THE Truku elders of Taiwan still dream about their mountain home four decades after bulldozers tore it down – a classic symptom of trauma as community members struggle to accept their loss.

At one evening gathering, Miya Yudaw described his recurring dream, where the mountain was still whole, dotted with quiet farms of millet and sweet potatoes, and the air clean, only to wake each time to the misery of reality.