Going back to her Tatana roots


KOTA KINABALU: A realisation that part of her heritage is slowly dying made Suzane Samy act.

The wake-up call for Suzane, whose father is Indian and mother a Dusun Tatana, an ethnic community mainly found in the southwest Kuala Penyu district, hit her one day when she realised that she and other younger family members could not speak their mother tongue.

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