Under four hundred years of acculturation, suppress and modernization, Taiwan aborigines have been confronting various difficulties in their socio-cultural development. Howe to make their village settlements becoming sustainable is one of major foreseeing tasks. Especially many of them live in mountainous, rural area or an island, so that are now captured in the conflict between conservation of nature and living making. The investigation aims to construct an ideal as well as feasible vision of “sustainable settlement” for the aborigines in this time-and-place. The researcher firstly reviews the development of ecological anthropology, form it a tentative theoretical framework is taken to analyze three types of settlements from three ethnic groups, they are the Yami in Orchid Island; the Tsou in Alisan Mountain (middle-high sea level); and the Bunun in Jade and Central Mountain (high sea level)h, so the ecological implications among the interrelationships of their traditional culture practices and natural environment where they situate are revealed. By keeping in mind the special needs of the aborigines, various aspects of so-called “econ-community” are also reviewed, including economic, socio-cultural sustainability and that of natural resource, as well as different know-how skill and knowledge such as organic agriculture, permaculture, new tourism, landscape ecology, ecological civil engineering and green architecture, etc. Some Western, Japanese and Taiwanese communities are studied to exemplify the idea, knowledge and skill in practice. Finally, the research attempts to construct a holistic vision of “the sustainable tribe settlement.” It is considered as basic unit of a larger framework, i.e., “Ethic Group’s Cultural and Ecological Homeland.” The Central Government and each ethnic group should co-operate in managing their living territories of distinctive natural resource and cultural heritage in a sustainable way. ‘Sustainable settlements’ should adopt organic agriculture in way of permaculture and create local markets for their yields; on the other hand, new tourism should be promoted through are principles of social justice, self-determination and cultural pluralism; knowledge from landscape ecology ought to be utilized to rearrange land use pattern, and that of ecological civil engineering to build various public facilities and infrastructure; all kinds of buildings and dwellings should consider environment friendly design and traditional ways of building properly. All of these may contribute to our vision of Taiwan aborigines “sustainable tribe settlements.”