The term Yuanzhumin (hereafter: YZM) - a direct translation from the English term `Ab-originals` - has been chosen in 1984 by members of the Aboriginal movement as a substitution for the official term 'mountain compatriots'. It took ten years until this new ethnonym was officially recognized by the second constitution amendment of June 28, 1994, and two more years until the government yielded to pressure from YZM-legislators to establish a YZM-representing committee on the central level (see  Michael Rudolph 1996).