Indigenous peoples of Austronesian ancestry are the original inhabitants of Taiwan. Taiwanese indigenous peoples — formerly called Taiwanese aborigines, Formosan people, and Gaoshan (臺灣原住民族) — lived in relative isolation for over 5,000 years until the 16th and 17th centuries. Successive waves of colonization by the Chinese, Spanish, Dutch, Manchus, and Japanese each took their toll on the Taiwanese indigenous peoples, but today, they are experiencing a cultural renaissance.
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