The Ryukyuan people are indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands that were massacred in the Mudan incident of 1871.
The Mudan incident of 1871 was the massacre of 54 Rykyan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered into the central part of Taiwan after their ship was shipwrecked. 
The Ryukyuan people ( , Ryky minzoku , Okinawan: "Ruuchuu minzuku") (also Lewchewan or Uchinaanchu ( , Japanese: "Okinawa jin") ) are the indigenous peoples of the Ryukyu Islands between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan. 
