When the legislative amendment guaranteeing this right was passed last year, the Atayal legislator then known as Kao Tien-lai immediately went into action, rushing to the household registry office in Chienshih Rural Township, Hsinchu County to secure the first ID card translating a full aboriginal name into its phonetic representation, using Chinese characters.
雖然去年條例一實施，泰雅族立法委員高天來馬上付諸行動，從新竹縣尖石鄉戶政事務所，拿到第一張用漢字翻譯傳統族名的身分證，從此正名為「馬賴．古麥」委員。