Taiwan's aborigines, duh

The Taipei Times has a reasonable article Help for Aborigines lacking, group says, which not only manages to upper case "Aborigines" but also goes on to point out a number of anti-Aboriginal polices of the current KMT administration.

Unfortunately it ends with:
In related news, the group also voiced their support for the Pingpu — or plains — Aboriginal campaign to regain their official Aboriginal status.

The Pingpu campaign suffered a setback recently, with the government refusing to allow them to register as Aborigines, saying they had voluntarily given up their status in the 1950s and 1960s when they failed to register with the government at the time.

“You [the government] have explained well the official procedure for declaring Aboriginal status 40 or 50 years ago. However, you have failed to answer the key question: Are they Aborigines?” said Wang Ming-hui (汪明輝), chairman of the Taiwan Aboriginal Society and a co-founder of Aboriginal Policy Watch. “It's ridiculous to deny someone his or her ethnic identity because of some administrative process,” Wang said.

which comes close to making the usual Han mistake of thinking their is an Aboriginal group called the "Pingpu", rather than the dozens that actually existed, or exist.

Which reminds me of a conversation with an official (quite high up as i remember) of the Tourism Bureau who, when i asked which Aboriginal language the words "Naruwan"--that was starting to appear in TB propaganda--derived from, said "Taiwan's aboriginal [i swear he used the lower case] language, duh"