Celebrating Indigenous Peoples
A blog series celebrating the tribal heritage of Northeast India, home to more than 250 tribes and sub-tribes.
Why we started it
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples is an ongoing series on our blog about the indigenous peoples of Northeast India and their times. We launched it to take part in the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in 2013, an event the United Nations holds every year on August 9. It was inspired by Indigenous Peoples Week, an un-conference hosted by Planeta, a pioneering website about eco-friendly travel curated by Ron Mader.
Northeast India has an incredible cultural diversity, with more than 250 tribes and sub-tribes who trace their ancestry to distant lands in Mongolia and Southeast Asia. We feel it is important to bring awareness to these indigenous cultures, and with this series we use social media and the web to do that.
Re-visiting the Indigenous Past of Northeast India
This popular post uses vintage photographs to take readers on a journey into the indigenous past of the people of Northeast India, a time that once was but will never be again.
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The Angami Peoples of Nagaland
The Angamis, a major tribe of Nagaland, make their homes on the hilltops. The tribe has rich traditional knowledge and still follows many of its indigenous ways.
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Old photographs and drawings of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, featured in the first post of the series. The 1954 photographs are from Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries.
