For the Rukai, living at the foot of the mountains, land belonged to the tribal chief, who was responsible for looking after the old and weak. But hunting land rights were determined by general agreement. Hunters did not necessarily leave their hunting grounds to their own children, and any child with an instinct for hunting could go into the mountains to learn from an elder huntsman.
山腳下的魯凱族，土地權歸屬負有照顧孤苦無依老弱責任的頭目，但獵區的使用則約定俗成，獵人不一定將獵區傳給自己孩子，具有打獵天分的小孩就可以跟著學習打獵。