"If we don't change our social structure," says Lee Chih-shoon, "more subsidies and compensation from afar will merely slow the extinction of our people." Lee, whose Truku name is Tera Yadau, is the head of Truku Self-Government Promotion Commission.
「假若社會結構不變，再多的生活津貼、偏遠地區補償，都只能減緩滅族的危機，只有自治才是文化重建的唯一活路，」太魯閣自治籌備會理事長李季順指出。