In 2000 the Saisiyat numbered 5,311, which was approximately 1.3% of Taiwan's total indigenous population,[1] making them one of the smallest aboriginal groups in the country.

Saisiyat are sometimes rendered as Saiset, Seisirat, Saisett, Saisiat, Saisiett, Saisirat, Saisyet, Saisyett, Amutoura, or Bouiok.

The details of the conflicts remain mysterious however historians agree that the outcome was negative for the Saisiyat.

[2] The first Aboriginal victim of the White Terror was Jih Chin-chun, a Saisiyat man executed in 1952.

[4] In the ancient times, human beings were created by god and lived in the original land.