Today, no one calls the indigenous people of Taiwan „wild“ or „mountain people“ anymore, as they were once derogatorily referred to. On the contrary, never in the island’s recent history have the descendants of the indigenous people been as visible and respected as they are now. In sports and pop music, for example, the indigenous minority has produced Taiwan’s biggest stars – such as Aljenljeng Tjaluvie, also known as ABAO, one of the country’s best-known pop singers. For a few years now, she has been writing the lyrics to her hip-hop and soul-influenced music not in Mandarin but in Paiwan, the language of her ancestors.