Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Hong-Ye Primary School (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3384)
Taiwan, Taitung
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations

We estimate 12 student(s) from 10 to 11 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Vagang(Hong-Ye), a village in the midst of forest, is the hometown of Little League Baseball Team of Vagang, the bunch of kids who beated Japanese and became world champion in 1968. You find the famous Vagang Hot Spring and the Conservation of Cycads here. The local Bununs community is known for the Pasipudpud, a chorus of eight vocals. The ancient Bununs used to roam the Vagang valley, the maple forest, and Labunuk, in upper North Ssu-Kao Stream.

Project Description: Vagang is rich both in nature ecology systems and ancient wisdom. The Bununs, after drifting from one place to another, finally settled down in Vakagan Village. They lived on the mountains and the forests. They hunted and planted millets. They sustained themselves and shared what they had with the community. The Bunun wisdom, as is told by the elders, is to keep the ecology balanced, and to prosper with the nature at the same time. However, as times went by, the petite Bununs today wouldn?ft be able to live in the way their ancestors used to. So the petite hunters, with the courage endowed by ancestors, will adventure instead into the community and history. We will search and explore our own tribe. We?fd keep a digital version of Bunun stories as a testament to the Bununs who thrived on this land. And the knowledge we learned is our best game. We?fll reveal how our ancestors lived peacefully with each other, community and the nature environments. We want to share the Bunun wisdom and the stories of Vagang with the wider world.

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