This is Mariah's user page for Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I am a junior and anthropology major at Vanderbilt University. I have no idea what I plan to do with the major, but it keeps me interested.

For my final Wikipedia project, I am going to improve the existing Yami people page. It has very little information on these people or their history. I want to explore in depth their past and present, including any struggles they may have faced, and the customs they still practice.

Reference paragraphs were added to Yami people Wikipedia page prior to the revised requirements.

Yami people

Lead Section...

Etymology

Detail origin of the Yami name and their preference for the name Tao.

Language

Origins of language and similarities with other languages and tribes of their region.

Geography

Relation of Orchid Island to Taiwan and the Philippines.

Include link to Orchid Island page and talk about geographical makeup of the island.

Culture

Ritual and Religion

Their combination of Christianity and spiritual beliefs.

How they do not have a single, unified belief structure.

The influence of evil spirits and fear of the dead.

Fishing

The importance of fishing and the different rules surrounding it dependent on the time of year.

Fishing Boats and Ceremony

The connection of the boat to the man.

The unification of the entire tribe for the release of a newly built boat.

Attire and Dress

The type of dress they wear dependent on gender and event.

Diet

How their diet is dependent on their fishing practices and their environment.

Government Relations

Their relationship with the Taiwanese government.

How they lack a specific government unique to the island.

The historical implications of foreign relationships.

Nuclear Waste

Their involvement with Taipower, the Taiwanese power company.

Protests involving the deposits of nuclear waste.

Bibliography

Enn, R. (2014). Re-learning of traditional knowledge in times of modernity. Campus - Wide Information Systems, 31(1), 14-23.
Tang, C., & Tang, S. (2010). Institutional adaptation and community-based conservation of natural resources: The cases of the tao and atayal in taiwan. Human Ecology, 38(1), 101-111.
Lin, R. (2007). Transforming taiwan aboriginal cultural features into modern product design:A case study of a cross-cultural product design model. International Journal of Design, 1(2)
Loa Iok-sin (21 February 2012). "Tao protest against nuclear facility". Taipei Times.
"Tao". Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
Smith, Douglas C. (Douglas Clifford), 1943-Bloomington, Ind. : Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, c1998
"Yami Traditional Fishing Boats". Digital Taiwan - Culture and Nature. Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program. 2011.
"Yami Tribe". Taiwan Indigenous Culture Park. Bureau of Cultural Park, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
Benedek, Dezso (1991). The Songs of the Ancestors: Comparative Study of Bashic Folklore. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc. ISBN 9789576380570.
Blust, Robert (2009). The Austronesian Languages. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. pp. 30–32, 81. ISBN 9780858836020.
Blundell, David (July 2008). "Endangered Languages in Revitalization Development and Mapping Featuring the Batanes and Orchid Island". ECAI Pacific Language Mapping.
Arrigo, Linda. "A Minority within a Minority: Cultural Survival on Taiwan's Orchid Island". Cultural Survival.

Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you this Original Barnstar for almost single-handledly turning the Yami people page a useful and informative article. Readin (talk) 04:13, 13 March 2016 (UTC)