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The Black Kmtyw Foundation of China — Honoring The Aboriginal Black People of China-gctid38787

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The Black Kmtyw Foundation of China — Honouring The  Aboriginal Black People of China

Published on TaipeiTimes
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/11/27/2003212815
 In honor of the Little Black People
 The Saisiyat tribe of Hsinchu and Miaoli will perform a solemn rite  this weekend to commemorate a race of people that they exterminated
 By Jules Quartly
STAFF REPORTER
Saturday, Nov 27, 2004,Page 16
 Xiangtian Lake is one of two places to see the ritual. Drinking,  singing and dancing are expected to take place deep in the mountains of  Miaoli and Hsinchu when the "Ritual of the Little Black People" is  performed by the Saisiyat tribe once again this weekend.
 For the past 100 years or so, the Saisiyat tribe has performed the  songs and rites of the festival to bring good harvests, ward off bad  luck and keep alive the spirit of a race of people who are said to have  preceded all others in Taiwan.
 In fact, the short, black men the festival celebrates are one of the  most ancient types of modern humans on this planet and their kin still  survive in eurasia today. They are said to be diminutive Africoids and are  variously called Pygmies, Negritos and Aeta. They are found in the  Philippines, northern Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra in Indonesia and other  places.
 Chinese historians called them "black dwarfs" in the Three Kingdoms  period (AD 220 to AD 280) and they were still to be found in China  during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1911). In Taiwan they were called the  "Little Black People" and, apart from being diminutive, they were also  said to be broad-nosed and dark-skinned with curly hair.
After the Little Black People — and well before waves of Han migrations  after 1600 — came the Aboriginal tribes, who are part of the  Austronesian race. They are thought to have come from the Malay  Archipelago 6,000 years ago at the earliest and around 1,000 years ago  at the latest, though theories on Aborigine migration to Taiwan are  still hotly debated. Gradually the Little Black People became scarcer,  until a point about 100 years ago, when there was just a small group  living near the Saisiyat tribe. The story goes that the Little Black  People taught the Saisiyat to farm by providing seeds and they used to  party together.
 "Tribal disputes later lead to warfare". The Saisiyat killed off by  the little Black People over time. Just two Little Black People  survived. Before departing eastward, they taught the Saisiyat about  their culture and passed down some of their songs, saying if they did  not remember their people they would be cursed and their crops would  fail.
The Saisiyat kept their promise and have held the Ritual of the Little  Black People every year, though they scaled down the ceremonies during  the Japanese colonial period (1895 to 1945). Now the ritual is held  every two years on the 10th full moon of the lunar calendar, with a big  festival once every 10 years. At this time, the Saisiyat are not  supposed to fight and they congregate in their ancestral areas of Miaoli  and Hsinchu, in the mountains.
 "I've seen it written of as a celebration, but to me it seemed quite a  mournful affair, especially in the way the music came across, which was  trancelike, a haunting kind of chant with a series of 10 to 15 songs,"  said long-term Taiwan resident Lynn Miles, who has been to the ritual  three times and will be going again this year.
 "There's nothing else quite like it in its tone and in its mood. I've  been to other festivals but this is non-stop."
 Miles said the dances were not set pieces but usually involved  holding hands and moving around in a circle, chanting, with those who  know the songs doing most of the singing and a shaman figure keeping  order.
 A spokeswoman at the Council of Indigenous Peoples (under the  Executive Yuan) said that those who have "unclean thoughts" have their  souls snatched by the spirits of the Little Black People and will pass  out until the shaman revives them.
 Miles said the shaman seemed to serve a public-order function by  chasing off those who were too drunk or out of order.
 The ceremonies are held in two places. The ritual began yesterday in  Nanchuang Township, Miaoli County, and will carry on there until Monday.  Rituals start today in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County, and will last  through tomorrow.
 Getting there:
 To Wufeng:
Route 122 to Wufeng can be accessed off No. 1 Highway near Toufen.
 To Nanchuang:
Take western No. 1 Highway. Near Toufen, take Route 124 toward Sanwan to  Nanchuang. Shuttle buses will take visitors to the ritual site at  Xiangtian Lake.
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Another instance of Eureurasian genocide on Black people.

This article claims that the genocide was the result of a dispute that led to warfare. However, another article says that the Black pigmy men were getting there way with the Eureurasian women. Nonetheless, it's a sad story.

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