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Firstly, the report I am presenting is backed by United Nations, during the post colonial decade (1995-2005) when UN was at it strongest feat that confronted brutal realities (land grabs, genocide statistics, corporate violence) without the polished "sustainable development" jargon of today. The very act of writing those reports was a political fight against governments who denied the data.

Meaning, the researchers who did the ground work were not social media degree holders, they were actual intellectuals working at ground-level for many many years before even writing a single line of the book titled “United Nations Indigenous Decade in NorthEast india (1995-2004) ”

Secondly, the report matters now because the conditions at that time with United Nations growing up as a major org and india being newly free of colonization,had less chances of govt funded biased researchers to suit their dominant narrations . With the current generation this cannot be guranteed. Hence request NE folks to read it before its taken down/manipulated . AGAIN READ THE BOOK as if your life depended on it.

Who-Indigeneous discussion ?

Besides the listed ethnic communities in the charts.

Quoted text: “Many communities that are indigenous to the Northeast belong to the Mongoloid stock and speak Sino-Tibetan languages. Apart from the tribals, the communities belonging to the Mongoloid stock also include some non-tribal groups like the Meitei of Manipur and the Tai-Ahom of Assam.”
Meaning —> We are not all ‘tribals.’ The Meitei and Tai-Ahom are Mongoloid stock too ,but the government puts us in different boxes to divide us.

Quoted text: “However, those of the Mongoloid stock are not the only inhabitants of the region. It also has non-Mongoloid groups such as the ethnic Assamese and some Bengali communities who consider themselves indigenous to the region.”

Meaning—> Now even ethnic Assamese and some Bengalis claim to be ‘indigenous’ to the Northeast. That is the root of the conflict. Will understand in Part 2 how immigration led to this.

Qouted text: “Among the other inhabitants of Assam are the Adivasi and other plantation labourers who immigrated from Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa and their neighbouring areas in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the more recent Bihari, Bangladeshi and Nepali immigrants.”

Meaning: “The list keeps growing. Adivasi, Bihari, Bangladeshi, Nepali all now living in Assam. And each group wants to be called ‘indigenous.’”

Report is 20+ years old , the truth remains but the numbers have become worse. For the next part : You have heard folks calling NE is lazy, well that was a trap by design. We will find it out from immigration related conflicts who came when and occupied what.

In a hilarious turn-over citizens around the globe took to social media pleading for a solution to political clown problems.

An US citizen asked China to keep Trump forever.
Then all major countries joined in adding their requests.

The world has shifted .

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Abotani is considered the primal ancestor of the Tani group of people in Arunachal Pradesh – Apatani, Nyishi, Adi, Tagin, Hill Miri. They follow the Donyi Polo belief system and they consider Abotani as the one who firstly introduced the technique of rice cultivation.

The following story is told orally through priests Miri among the Adi people:

In older time Abotani Abo “father”, tani “human” has wandered in forest for want of food. Once he went to Takar-Taji’s place Tatar-Taji marriage ceremony where a gaur Mithun was sacrificed. Due to a trick of Abotani, Takar-Taji could sacrifice only one gaur, which was meagre for distribution to the guest. Abotani’s dog Kiipu and the deer Duumpoo shared a packet of rotten soya seeds staple food in olden days, as the use of rice millet and maize was unknown in those days. This led to quarrel between Kiipu and Duumpoo. Duumpoo the deer kicked the soya seed packet and ran away. Angry, Kiipu the dog chased the deer. Abotani had to follow both them. After many days Duumpu the deer landed in the world of Digo Ane “Keeper of Land”; digo “land”, ane “mother” where people were scattering the rice powder set on sun for drying. Duumpoo the deer was caught by these people; Kiipu the dog followed and was caught; Abotani followed them and was also caught by the peoples of Digo Ane. The three were imprisoned. After many days Abotani played a trick: he put a dead mole rat in his armpit and acted as if he were dying. This worried the Digo Ane people, lest the act may anger the Takar-Taji people, and they freed Abotani and granted him the gift of rice, millet and maize seed.

Many other legends between the Tani people speak about Abotani’s stories: a woman in the Digo Ane region told him how to cultivate the rice seeds http://wakling.com/abotani-and-the-quest-for-rice; Abotani had a lot of success in his rice cultivation thanks to his wise wife Aio Diiliang Diibiu http://arunachalipr.gov.in/StateFestival\_Dree.htm; however, he divorced from her to marry another woman, and this brought disgrace to his wealth because the new wife was too much after leisures http://arunachaldiary.blogspot.com/2008/05/myoko-celebration-of-apatanis-photo.html; when Abotani realized this, he left also the second wife and continued the cultivation on his own, but still he had to ask for the help of his sister to be saved from the danger of falling from the top of a high tree where he had climbed http://arunachalipr.gov.in/StateFestival\_Dree.htm. Events in the legendary life of Abotani and in his quest for rice are part of the traditions of the Tani people and are celebrated in different periods of the year following the rice cultivation season. Abotani is a symbol of the struggle of humankind for food and prosperity though in difficult situations, and of the need for harmony between man and woman to bring wealth to the family.