To rebuild the Ami's respect for themselves, Tiway Sayion, who had never before studied the use of romanizations, put his nose to the grindstone and produced Taiwan's first curriculum for the Ami language.
為了重振民族尊嚴，沒有學過羅馬拼音的他「硬著頭皮」編寫了全國第一套阿美族語言教材。