I’ve heard of this. Let me see if I can find the reference again. Apparently some aboriginal group asked CKS for permission to have their own flag, and he said yes but imposed this design on them.
It’s a very beautiful design. The problem of it is the color on color design of the Amis star and the blue background. If they add a metal color to make the black star pop, it’d be much better looking.
The green ROC variant (the “aboriginal” flag) seems to have been purged from whatever websites it was on before. (I think it might have been on the CWC website, but it could have been Wikipedia.) In theory, information on it should be floating around Taiwan someplace.
Maybe a group of aborigines were going to some kind of international conference, and asked permission to fly their own flag? (I’m struggling to remember what I read.) I don’t think it ended up being used–I think the issue was dropped.
Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples promotes a number of aboriginal symbols, selected God knows how, and focusing on different weaving designs. (Of course the Tao have their mata. ) You can see these on posters and t-shirts for sporting events or music contests, e.g…