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From the Rover Incident to the Nanjia Treaty―Whose Conflict? Whose Treaty?
Author(s)
Kuo Su-Chiu
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2019.12.003
Affiliation(s)
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
This paper will focus on
the Rover Incident of 1867 and the subsequent Nanjia Treaty; the main
protagonists of the incident were the Kuraluts indigenous people; and different
perspectives will be explored by integrating archaeological and historical
data. The Rover Incident, a conflict between the Kuraluts and the United
States, led to the Nanjia Treaty (Treaty of the Southern Headland), a
reconciliation between the US and Tauketok, pre-eminent leader of 18 indigenous
communities inhabiting this region. From the geographic location of the
Kuraluts Village (Sheding Site), however, as well as from foreign coins and
blue-and-white ceramics found as funerary objects inside stone coffins, it
would seem that such contacts with the outside world were relatively frequent.
Moreover, due to the aborigines’ ability to make use of knowledge of the local
geography and their military skills to defeat forces from the US’s naval fleet―which
also indicates they were familiar with weaknesses in the military operations of
foreign vessels―as a result, neither the US side nor Tauketok seemed to have
any need to resort to the use of military force.
KEYWORDS
Rover Incident, Nanjia Treaty, Eighteen Tribes of Langjiao, Kuraluts, Tauketok, Zhulaoshu Tribe
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