Two years ago members of the Kavalan, one of the Pingpu tribes, returned from the hill of Hualien to the Lanyang Plain in search of their roots, and demanded to be officially recognized as the Taiwan's 10th aboriginal tribe.
前年，平埔噶瑪蘭族從「後山」回到蘭陽平原尋根，並要求列為原住民的第十族。