Discovering the life resilience -A life story about a Taiwan Aboriginal helper

• Main Authors: Siou-Huei Ran, 冉秀惠
• Other Authors: Jyun-Cai Syu
• Format: Others
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7aw749

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 民族事務與發展學系 === 105 === This is a life story about a Taiwanese indigenous helper how she bcomes a social worker and her experiences. I work with/for indigenous communities in Hualien for ten years, and I am struggling to find a balance between mainstream social work profession and my perspectives in terms of Truku people and religion. Consequencely, I lost myself. Therefore, I expected I can find myself and balance between profession and religions trough this study. This study conducted narrative inquiry and according to this method I found out why I would like to give up my favorite job and gradually lost my passion. Therefore, I have to catch and hold the courage which Truku ancestors give to me, and this could help me to face myself. In addition, I figured out that the legacies of colonial history influence my families and our people deeply and we all lost ourselves. I also saw my weakness and inadequacy in my life so far. These experiences could help me to forgiveness. This research also adopted method of autoethnography. Every family member, including myself and tribal elders, share their own story the enrich reseach data and this is my first time to connect my cultural history, knowledge, land, and ancestor. It makes me feel exciting. During the study, I am not only found myself and understand why I would feel contradiction and confusion, but also discovered the cultural significance meanings and its resilience. The aims of self-searching journey are to repair my broken life, clarify my inner contradiction and confused. I discovered that the mainstream disregarded Taiwanese indigenous, so I suggest that social work profession can respect indigemous culture and emphasize the core value of social justice. According to these discussions, I already found my future position and responsibility as an indigenous helper.