Abstract
The recognition of indigenous people as an unique subject of international law has gradually evolved worldwide as a major current, which includes the idea to rebuild an infrastructure so to adequately manage their genetic resources and consequently the polities to redistribute the derived benefits. These aspects, inter alia, even extend to the prominent issues such as sustainable development. However, we can see no sheer parallel development in Taiwan. This article is therefore trying to disclose the violent nature of the colonial powers which introduced with force the civil law property ideas as a major facility to deprive the land property from indigenous tribes of Taiwan for the past decades, and with the analytical comparison of international and domestic regulatory structures, so to suggest an adequate indigenous property system for Taiwan, and to conclude with a re-examination of the three draft tribal covenants or constitutions mirroring the above suggestions.