Some have chosen to remain in the cities where they seek to make their issues heard and enter government service in an effort to reform the system from the inside. More have chosen to return to their villages to engage in grassroots efforts to revive them. As the fight has moved from the streets to the villages, the pan-Aboriginalism that characterized the early movement has given way to a tribalism centered on the villages.
對於原鄉部落的空洞化，原運風雲人物在不同理念下兵分二路，或是留在都市裡繼續爭取發言權、進入公務系統從事體制內改革，更多的則是回到原鄉，從事基礎性的「部落復振」工作。