The newly recognized 15th and 16th aboriginal peoples in Taiwan are Hla'alua and Kanakanavu. The two peoples has been classified as Cou people since Ministry of the Interior announced that there are nine aboriginal peoples in Taiwan in 1954. Cou are used to be divided into two parts: northern Cou and southern Cou. Northern Cou refers to Alishan Cou and southern Cou refers to both the 15th and 16th aboriginal peoples. The reasons of the certification of these two peoples should be with objective and subjective criteria. This article points out there are five objective criteria to make ethnic certification: (1) classification system, (2) social system of Hosa, (3) relationship of clans, (4) religious concepts and rituals, (5) mutual intelligibility in languages, as well as two subjective criteria: (1) ethnic cognition and consciousness, and (2) the opinions and attitudes among the three peoples to this application case. Based on the objective and subjective criteria mentioned above, it is proved that the 15th and 16th aboriginal peoples’ appeals to separate from Cou and to be certified as two independent peoples can be accepted.