A new indigenous television network is going live in Taiwan:

Aboriginal groups have often felt marginalised by mainstream society. But they hope the new 24-hour television channel - iTV or the Indigenous Television Network - will be a chance for others to hear their voice, both at home and overseas.
The station will collaborate with other indigenous television networks around the world, including those in the US and Canada.
The channel shows a mix of news, entertainment, and
documentaries, giving the island’s aboriginals their own access to the
mainstream media for the first time."There’s a diversity of cultures in Taiwan," said Walis
Peilin, who heads the Cabinet-level Council of Indigenous Peoples, and
is a member of the Tayal tribe.
"The indigenous people of Taiwan should also have the
right to access the power of the media and pass on our unique culture
and languages."
"But we hope all different groups in Taiwan can support this station, and respect different ideas and each other," he said.

Most people who haven’t been to Taiwan don’t realize how diverse the Asian island really is.  Before I traveled there in 1996, I thought it was simply a "Chinese" country or province–in an ethnic rather than political sense–and that the main issue for most people was between Chinese people on Taiwan and Chinese people on the mainland.  However, after visiting the southeast part of the island and spending 3 weeks in a Bunun village near Taidong (Taiwan east), I discovered that the issues were more complex than that.

I learned that there are other divisions of Taiwan’s population.  First, there are the so-called aboriginals (Austronesians), whose ancestors came to the island (presumably from the mainland) thousands of years ago.  It is believed that they originally came as one group, but then split into several tribes (12 are recognized by the government), some of whom traveled to other islands, such as the Philipines, New Zealand, and Hawai’i.   They have been on the island the longest.  Indeed, when Chinese settlers started to arrive 300 or 400 years ago, the bulk of the original inhabitants were pushed up into the mountains–that is, until Japanese officials forced them down again at the beginning of this century.

There are still further divisions when we consider "Chinese" or "Han" people in Taiwan.  The most basic division has to do with time of arrival–it is between those (waishengren外生人) who came in the 1940’s with the KMT government from all over the mainland, and those (bendiren本地人)who have been on the island for a few hundred years, and came primarily from a single mainland province: Fujian.

Interestingly, my first landlord in Taipei (Taiwan north) once told me that when she was a child living in the original capital, Tainan (Taiwan south), this last division did not refer to people who came 50 years as opposed to people who came 300 years ago.  To her, bendiren were people from Tainan and waishengren were people from other parts of the island.