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The Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies and Dong Hwa Indigenous Peoples Book Series

The development of indigenous studies in Taiwan has always been characterized by the construction of the "Other" and the lack of a subjective knowledge system under the hegemony of colonial knowledge. The College of Indigenous Studies of National Dong Hwa University was founded in August 2001 with the aim of cultivating indigenous talents and elites in higher education, and became the only academic institution in Taiwan that takes the world's indigenous peoples as the subject of teaching, research, and development. In addition to cultivating talents, another important task of the College is to build a knowledge system based on Taiwan's indigenous peoples. When indigenous people use their subjective experience as a way to construct knowledge, we must first interpret and construct as well as deconstruct the discourses of "hegemony" and "anti-hegemony. By questioning the value of mainstream discourses, we can further place the traditional values, ecological wisdom, historical culture, etc., defined and presented by Taiwan's indigenous peoples as the main body in the dominant position of knowledge. Looking at the indigenous education sectors and institutions in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other countries, they all guide the construction of indigenous knowledge systems based on their local experience with their core values. The College should also actively promote the combination of indigenous scholars and scholars who pay attention to issues related to indigenous peoples, develop research on Taiwan's indigenous peoples as the core values, and aim to build an indigenous knowledge system in Taiwan.

With this in mind, since 2008, under the sponsorship and support of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of the Executive Yuan, the College has taken on the important task of editing and publishing the "Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies Quarterly". This journal collects scholarly knowledge and research results with indigenous peoples as the subject or main body. Through political, economic, social, humanistic, natural and other perspectives, the indigenous peoples are taken as research subjects and topics to further build an indigenous knowledge system based on local experiences. So far, the College has published 14 volumes and 46 issues of the journal, and also published 57 books to promote the development of academic research on Taiwan's indigenous peoples.

Since 2017, in order to improve the quality of the journal, the editorial board decided to change the original publication format of quarterly to semi-annual, and to change the name of "Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies Quarterly" to "Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies". It is hoped that by extending the publication cycle of this journal, the research analysis and review mechanism will have more time to work, thus improving the academic quality of the College's publications and establishing the academic prestige of "Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies".

The National Central Library hosts and awards the “Taiwan Academic Recourse Impact Awards” every year based on the Taiwan Citation Index – Humanities and Social Sciences (TCI-HSS), and the Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies has won the 2019 Anthropology Knowledge Dissemination Award, the 2019 Anthropology Knowledge Impact Award, the 2020 Anthropology Journal Instant Communication Award, the 2020 Anthropology Journal Long-term Communication Award, the 2022 Anthropology Journal Instant Communication Award, and the 2022 Anthropology Journal Long-term Communication Award.

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