Dr. Tien Ya-ko, himself a Bunung aborigine, discovered in the course of growing up and study that aborigines had problems of cultural adaptation, and he decided to devote efforts to these people.
出身布農族的田雅各醫師，在成長和求學過程中，發現生活在現代社會中的土著族，常因文化差異而產生調適上的困難，便立志要為先住民們盡份心力。