In 1998, Tuan returned to settle in his village. The next year, along with Dr. Pan Ing-hai of the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica, Tuan helped put on the first "Visiting the Sirayans-the Nocturnal Sacrifices to Alimu and the Reverencing of the Sea." It turned out to be the opening volley in a campaign to restore Sirayan identity.
一九九八年，段洪坤回到村落定居，並在第二年與中研院民族所教授潘英海，一同舉辦了第一屆的《走訪西拉雅──吉貝耍阿立母夜祭與孝海》，開始正名活動的首部曲。