In recent years, efforts to promote the plans of indigenous hunting self-governance have been launched in numerous places. The purpose of this study is to establish detailed spatial information of the Truku people’s hunting grounds around the Mugua river basin in Xiulin township, Hualien County, gather factual information of indigenous hunting within these areas, and work with tribes to establish self-governance mechanism. Firstly, by coollaborating with a hunter group of the Dowmung (Knkreyan) tribal council, a self-governing system has been established. Then, the institution is expanded jointly with Tmunan Village and moved towards the integration of villages in the whole Xiulin township. Currently, the Xiulin Truku Hunters Association is prepared as a governance unit to sign an administrative contract with the government for obtaining management rights of hunting ground. In terms of steps of practice, three sequential concepts related to the space of hunting area were proposed:’’de facto hunting ground’’,’’entitled hunting ground’’and’’de jure hunting ground’’, representing the space of geographical fact, social legitimacy, and institutionalized legal authority respectively. The three concepts describe how the Dowmung and Tmunan hunter groups are established, how local conflicts are mediated, and how the hunting grounds can be legalized. This study found that five contemporary tribes in Dowmung Village and Tmunan Village jointly inherited eligibility of the surrounding areas of the Mugua river basin. The hunting grounds are shared by the tribe members but outsiders, however this sharing reality does not necessarily mean that tribes can be integrated into a’’collective’’political unit. Once a group of agents who share field legitimacy take the lead in self-organizing, it can effectively disturb the tacit fact of space sharing in the hunting grounds. On the other hand, through negotiation and internal and external adjustments by multiple political subjects, consensus can be achieved as much as possible in the process of the construction of de jure hunting ground. In the case of Mugua river basin, it happens that political interactions at higher organizational level help mitigate internal differences of individual tribes. The practical experiences of the Truku people shows that the process of delineating hunting units should be maintained broad-minded. Also creating a political environment which enables multiple political subjects to negotiate and integrate is a foundation of establishing indigenous hunting self-governance institution.