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The traditional Phom dressing was indicative of the social status of the wearer. The ordinary clothing included a white ( vihe-ashak ) or a dark blue ( nempong-ashak ) shawl-like body wrap. A man who had taken a head or offered feasts had the privilege to wear a cowrie-ornamented shawl ( fanet-henyü ).
Seno Tsuhah is a primary school teacher and Indigenous social activist from the Chakhesang Naga community in Chizami, Nagaland.She is recognised in Northeast India for her work on gender justice and sustainable farming; she has been associated with the feminist organisation, North East Network (NEN), for over twenty years.
Nagaland (/ ˈ n ɑː ɡ ə l æ n d /) is a state in the north-eastern region of India.It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south, and the Naga Self-Administered Zone of the Sagaing Region of Myanmar (Burma) to the east.
Natwar Thakkar (1932 – 7 October 2018), popularly known as Natwar Bhai, was an Indian social worker who worked in Nagaland. He came from Maharashtra but migrated to Nagaland for social work at the age of 23. He founded the Nagaland Gandhi Ashram at Chuchuyimlang village in the Mokokchung district of Nagaland. Because of his efforts to spread ...
The Lothas ancestors lived in a place called Lenka, situated east of the Naga territory (modern Nagaland). During the course of migration the Lothas split into two groups. The first group, after reaching the Brahmaputra Valley, settled there while the second group went towards the mountainous region of the present day Nagaland.
Neidonuo Angami (born 1 October 1950) is an Indian social worker and one of the founders of the Naga Mothers' Association, a non governmental organization working for remedying the social problems in Nagaland, India. [1] She is reported to have been selected as one of the 1000 women shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005.
Tubu Kevichüsa (1948–1996), General Secretary of the Naga National Council; S. S. Khaplang (1940–2017), leader of NSCN-K; Jadonang Malangmei (1905–1931), Naga spiritual leader and political activist
Naga is an umbrella term for several indigenous communities in Northeast India and Upper Burma.The word Naga originated as an exonym. Today, it covers a number of ethnic groups that reside in the Indian states of Nagaland, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and also in Myanmar.