Yet the preservation of aboriginal historical materials cannot just rely on fortune. It takes just one instance of carelessness for history to be forever silenced; and it cannot just be something that is fashionable under the appeal of the International Year of Aboriginal Peoples.
不過山地史料的保存顯然不能只靠機緣，一次的不小心，歷史就將永遠沈默；也不能只熱在一個「國際原住民年」的呼籲下。