Naga
1 Americannoun
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Nagas,
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Naga
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a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Myanmar (Burma).
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any of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Naga.
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a member of a people of NE India and W Myanmar: until the early 20th century they practised head-hunting
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the language of this people, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and having many dialects
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The Naga will then accompany the remains of their ancestors home, with some returning for the first time in more than a century.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The latest announcement concerns only the ancestral remains, and follows a declaration made by a Naga declaration visiting Oxford in 2025, in which the group requested the objects be returned.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Skulls and bones belonging to the Naga people of northeastern India and Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - have been displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford for more than a century.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Tan has also given more responsibility to Naga Chandrasekaran, a Ph.D engineer with a deep technical knowledge of semiconductors who has over the past year become the foundry’s most important salesman, people inside Intel say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
They are a fine hardy race, and in my time the Naga Hills police was largely recruited from them.
From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone
People remember clashes between Nagas and Kukis in the early 1990s which dragged on for a year before ebbing.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023
Nagas and Kukis live in the poorly developed hills.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2023
The people here are Nagas, a minority group more ethnically tied to Myanmar and China than to India.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
After the downpour, as Neichutuonuo tended her garden, a rainbow built an arch across the sky - a symbol of hope to the Nagas.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
Late in the afternoon some Mao Nagas brought in seven Nepaulee coolies who had escaped from Kohima the previous day, and wandered through the jungle expecting every moment to be killed.
From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone
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