Community fishing at Doyang river in Nagaland

Source: WildFilmsIndia on YouTube

Wood carving from Englan village, Wokha, Nagaland

Wood carvings by L. Tumphio Lotha, Englan village, Wokha, Nagaland.

"Reflections" by Atsen Murry

Video Source: http://youtu.be/tUhm2FtU7ac
Courtesy: The Naga Blog
Atsen Murry's Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AtsenMurry

Excerpt from the YouTube video Description:
"Wrote this piece on a fire exit stairwell of Moody in Downtown Chicago"

John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss Cover By Ekon Ezung

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/EkonEzung

You can watch more of his videos on his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/EkonEzung

Fr. Abraham Lotha's speech at IGNOU's Silver Jubilee, 2010

IGNOU's Silver Jubilee Lecture by Fr. Abraham Lotha on "Nations Within Nations : Living Dialogues on Governance and Culture".

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/egyankoshIGNOU

Renbeni Odyuo | Lady Gaga You and I acoustic cover

Watch the amazing Renbeni Odyuo cover Lady Gaga's "You and I". Awesome voice by the way!

Source: Renbeni Odyuo's YouTube Channel

Osobhano [Lotha] ­-The Hunt: a documentary on wild animal poaching in north-east India.

"The Hunt" is a documentary on wild animal poaching in North-East India by Wild Films India. This documentary was shot in Wokha covering mostly Longsa village and shows wild life poaching and hunting practiced by Nagas in general. Even though there is increase in awareness of effects on the ecology due to hunting, they are still practiced by villagers. It is encouraging to see efforts by various concerned groups on discouraging hunting and spreading awareness about preserving nature. We should continue to do so.



Courtesy: Wild Films India.
An excerpt from the YouTube video:
"Osobhano - The Hunt: a documentary on wild animal poaching in north-east India. This film also highlights the traditions of the Lotha tribe of Longsa village in Nagaland and also the problem of commercialized hunting and poaching activities in that region.

The film attempts to capture the ways of life of the Lotha tribe in Nagaland. Although the ways are traditional, some of them are taking a toll on the environment and the ecology.

Traditionally, the Nagas are food gatherers and they hunted anything that moved in the jungle. An overwhelming number of people have realized that indiscriminate hunting is wiping out the animals and an ever-increasing variety of animal species have become rare.

The film tries to see how the slash, burn and shifting cultivation technique employed by the Lothas and the other nagas have a very adverse effect. They burn the forest and all the vegetation on the hill slopes and use the barren slopes to cultivate wheat and other cash crops.

This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. "

Video Volunteers -Weavers Need A Helping Hand by Renchano Humtsoe

Source: Video Volunteers
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoVolunteers

An excerpt from the YouTube Video description:
"The weaving tradition of Lotha Naga tribals is becoming rare as young generation stays away from it. In Wokha district of Nagaland where Lotha tribals like our correspondent Renchano lives, most of the young men and women are unaware of the great value attached to their hand-woven clothes. The craft is now practiced only by a few women of the older generation and the fall out of this is, young Nagas are getting alienated from their history and traditions. For a Naga tribe, any hand-woven cloth is much more than just a piece of warm clothing. It is an indicator of his community and his social standing. So every Naga tribe has it's own distinct designs. Each of these design has multiple patterns and together they are supposed to reflect the wearer's complete identity -- which tribe he belongs to, the group of villages he came from, his social status and the number of ritual feasts he had performed. The clothes, especially the shawl woven by the Lotha tribe has several patterns which indicate the number of social feasts given by the wearer. Interestingly all the designs are woven only by women. But unlike before now young Naga women often travel to other states either for higher education or jobs which keep them away from home. As a result, they don't get to learn weaving which is so crucial for their tribe. Renchano, a Lotha Naga tribal herself, doesn't know how to weave as she spent several years out of Wokha. She points this out as a reason why the tradition of weaving slowly vanishing. And as production of shawls and other woven materials decrease, imitations of Naga shawls are now being produced by machines in Delhi, Chennai, Patna or wherever and being sold at a little over Rs 100, when an original shawl of the same design should fetch nothing less than Rs 1,000-1,500 in the Nagaland government shops. Renchano says, it's important that the tribals themselves value their tradition, instead of blaming others for creating replicas of their hand-woven crafts. As we see in her video, Renchano herself became more aware of the value of weaving while producing this video. She has now decided to learn the art of weaving and practice it in future. She wants others young members of the community also take pride in their craft and help preserve it."