The beautifully named Maliyun is located to the south of Ruisui Pasture, and is a small settlement of a few hundred persons. This settlement has the most concentrated population of Sakizaya People, who were only recently recognized by the Executive Yuan to be a separate indigenous people group in January of 2007. The Sakizaya people, who disappeared from history for over one hundred years, were originally distributed over the Qilai (Hualien) Plain.