Perspectives of Indigenous Bridges

  Meeting with the Chair of the Indigenous Studies Department of NDHU.   From May 10-13, 2021, three members of the ATAYAL Organization traveled to Hualien and Taitung, Taiwan in order to establish key partnerships for exchanges related to the Indigenous Bridges Youth Ambassador Program (IBYAP). Tony Coolidge, Gary Smoke and Tun-wen Chiang spent three days meeting the partners to share about the program and to secure commitments for their participation. This was a week before COVID-19 broke out in Taiwan, when the economy was open and travel was free and unfettered. It was also a good opportunity to explore the indigenous cultures of Taiwan's East Coast. Meeting Kimi Sabal at the Atayal Facial Tattoo Studio   The first new partner we visited in Hualien was Keui-shih Tien (Kimi Sabal) of the Atayal Facial Tattoo Studio. You can read an article about Kimi Sabal and his life's work in Cultural Survival Magazine , written by our PR Coordinator, Sylvia Dean. Mr. Tien has preserved