Makatao

Makatao communities inhabited the plains of southern Taiwan, from the lower Gāopíng River towards the foothills of Mount Dàwǔ. Qing records called a number of their villages the Eight Communities of Fèngshān. During Dutch rule, missionaries initially used books in the Siraya language for people of the Píngdōng plain, before recognising that the local language was different. Later settlement and land clearance under the Qing put pressure on Indigenous communities, some of whom moved east towards the foot of the Central Mountain Range.