From the Rover Incident to the Nanjia Treaty―Whose Conflict? Whose Treaty?

• 作者: Kuo Su-Chiu
• 来源期刊: 文化与宗教研究:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: ROVER INCIDENT Nanjia TREATY Eighteen TRIBES of Langjiao Kuraluts Tauketok Zhulaoshu TRIBE
• 年，卷（期）: whyzjyjywb_2019,（12）
• 页码范围: 668-677
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: D81

摘要

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.