Ketagalan are a Taiwanese aboriginal

Taiwanese aborigines

Taiwanese aborigines is the term commonly applied in reference to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Although Taiwanese indigenous groups hold a variety of creation myths, recent research suggests their ancestors may have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han...

 tribe originating in what is now the Taipei Basin

Taipei Basin

Taipei Basin is a geographic region in northern Taiwan. It is the second largest basin in Taiwan. The basin is bounded by Yangmingshan to the north, Linkou mesa to the west, and the Ridge of Xueshan Range to the southeast. The shape of the basin is close to a triangle...

. Their language has now become extinct.

On March 21, 1996, the road in front of the Presidential Building

Presidential Building (Taiwan)

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 was renamed from "Long Live Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

" Road (介壽路) to Ketagalan Boulevard

Ketagalan Boulevard

Ketagalan Boulevard is located in Zhongzheng District in Taipei, Taiwan, between the Presidential Building and the East Gate . The length is 400 m. There are ten lanes for two-way traffic, and no traffic islands.-History:...

 (凱達格蘭大道) by then-mayor of Taipei City, Chen Shui-bian

Chen Shui-bian

Chen Shui-bian is a former Taiwanese politician who was the 10th and 11th-term President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. Chen, whose Democratic Progressive Party has traditionally been supportive of Taiwan independence, ended more than fifty years of Kuomintang rule in Taiwan...

, to commemorate this tribe. Traffic sign

Traffic sign

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s banning motorcycle

Motorcycle

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s and bicycle

Bicycle

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s from that road were abolished at the same time.

Folklore

Legend has it that their forebears originally lived on another island. One day, a monster

Monster

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 appeared on the island. Every night the monster would appear in the village, terrorizing the villagers. Accordingly, the villagers laid traps for the monster all around their homes and fields. The wounded monster was forced back into the mountains and the village was peaceful again for a while, but soon afterwards the monster reappeared. Pushed to insanity by hunger, the monster went into one of the village homes and killed a child. The villagers lived in fear of being eaten by the monster and did not dare to sleep. The villagers fiercely debated but nobody could think of a way to deal with the monster. So with no other choice, it was decided that they must pack up and leave the island. Following an arduous sea

Sea

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 voyage, they sighted land. The island they landed on was the island of Taiwan

Taiwan

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. Many years later, the tribe

Tribe

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 was growing so one day the villagers agreed to draw straws. Those who drew long straws were permitted to remain living on the fertile plain while those drawing the short straws would have to move into the mountain

Mountain

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s. Thereafter, the villagers were separated into plain-dwelling and mountain-dwelling tribes.