Some suffered from tremendous mental and physical exhaustion and hanged themselves, "writes Kuo Ming-cheng in his History of Chingliu.
郭明正在〈清流部落生命史〉一文中寫道，遷村的同時，泰雅族人的經濟生產也由游耕強迫改為水稻，然而因不熟悉水稻種植，收成不好，自然造成生活困頓。