Tuban Vusam Culture Experimental Elementary School

Tuban Elementary was founded in 1910 during the Japanese colonial era as the "Kama Educational Institute" (噶媽教育所), and has been renamed multiple times since — among the oldest Indigenous-serving schools anywhere in Taitung County. In 2017 it was converted into "Tuban Vusam Culture Experimental Elementary School." Its 1998 campus incorporates Paiwan cultural motifs, including the hundred-pace snake emblem and traditional pottery jar designs. "Vusam" is a Paiwan word meaning chieftain, heir, or seed-stock — a name chosen deliberately for a school in Tuban Village, which is renowned for preserving the Maljeveq, or Five-Year Ceremony, one of the most intact ritual traditions in Paiwan culture.

土坂國小創立於明治43年（1910年），日治時期名為「噶媽教育所」，其後歷經多次更名，是臺東縣境內歷史最悠久的原住民學校之一。民國106年（2017年）轉型為「土坂Vusam實驗小學」。民國87年（1998年）落成的校園融入排灣族文化意象，如百步蛇圖騰與傳統陶壺造型。「Vusam」在排灣族語中意為頭目、繼承人或種子——這個名字特別選用於土坂村，因為此地以保存「五年祭」（Maljeveq）聞名，是排灣族最完整的祭儀傳統之一。