Arikun | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of the Plains Indigenous People in Pipa, Puli, possibly an Arukun. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Nantou, Taichung, and Changhua in Taiwan. | |
| Languages | |
| Arikun (previously), Taiwanese, Mandarin | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hoanya, Lloa |
Arikun is a group of Austronesian indigenous Formosan people[1] living from the western plain to central basin of Taiwan, especially. They have lived through the Dutch colonization of Taiwan, as well as the Manchurian occupation during the Qing dynasty.
Arikun people along with Lloa people used to be classified as a subgroup of Hoanya people, but this concept has been rejected by some scholars, as the name "Hoanya" seems to be a derogatory exonym from huan-á (Southern Min: "the barbarians") by the Chinese immigrants.[2][3]
In the 19th century, Arikun people were invited by indigenous people living in Puli, Nantou, to migrate there, along with many other plain indigenous peoples from western Taiwan, including the Lloa people. Nowadays, the inhabitants of the eastern and southeastern parts of Puli are mostly descendants of Arukun and Lloa people.[4]
- ^ Cauquelin, Josiane. The Aborogines of Taiwan (PDF). Routledge Curzon. p. 14.
- ^ Chung, Yu-Lan (1997). "平埔研究中的「族群分類」問題——再議Hoanya(洪雅族)之適宜性" [On the Classification in the Pepo Studies: The Adequacy of the Ethnic Name 'Hoanya']. Symposium on the Developmental History of Taiwan. Taipei: Academia Historica: 137–166.
- ^ Wen, Jia-Yin (2008). "荷蘭時期原住民分佈研究回顧" [A Review on the Studies of the Distribution of the Indigenous Peoples during the Dutch Formosa Period]. 臺灣的語言方言分佈與族群遷徙工作坊. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.
- ^ Chen, I-chen (2019-11-20). "錯置的名字：(╳洪雅Hoanya╳)羅亞Lloa、阿立昆Arikun" [Misplaced Names: (╳Hoanya╳) Lloa, Arikun]. Indigenous Sight. Retrieved 2023-08-08.