ABOUT CORE

The Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE), Manipur, India is representative indigenous peoples' organization based in Manipur, India. The organization has been working in grassroots support and advocacy for the rights of the indigenous and tribal peoples and their organizations in the NorthEast region of India,with particular emphasis on the more than thirty different indigenous and tribal peoples of Manipur. The CORE, Manipur (India), which is actively participating in the debate on the rights of indigenous peoples during the sessions of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations appointed by the Sub-Commission on the Prevention Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

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TRIBALS IN THE NORTH EAST OF INDIA
(Weekly Feature)

The Garos :
The Garo tribes are generally supposed to commence with the Nuyas, who are the clan immediately to the west of the Kasias; but the Nunyas are more Kasia than Garo. Their position, occupying the extreme north-western portion of the mountainous tract that extends from Cape Negrais to the Brahmaputra, is well known. By the writers of the days of Buchanan Hamilton, the Garos, Kasias, and Jyntias are spoken of as one people.

Source : Tribal History of Eastern India
Photographed by : Dr. Simpson