Recently, while lecturing on "tribal leadership culture" to urban aborigines in Taipei County, Tiway Sayion explained that in his grandfather's day, the tribal leader was the "president" of the tribal community, and held both military and civil authority.
他最近在北縣為都市原住民解講「頭目文化」時指出，在他祖父那一代，頭目就是部落的總統，握有軍事權（打仗）和司法權（調解仲裁）兩大權力。