{"id":8409,"date":"2023-04-08T01:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:21:34","slug":"idu-mishmi-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/idu-mishmi-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Idu Mishmi Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Idu Mishmi Tribe:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> The Idu Mishmi is a <strong>sub-tribe of the larger Mishmi group<\/strong> (the other two Mishmi groups are Digaru and Miju) <strong>in Arunachal Pradesh and neighbouring Tibet<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>primarily live in Mishmi Hills<\/strong>, <strong>bordering Tibet<\/strong> in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>ancestral homelands<\/strong> are spread over the <strong>districts of Dibang Valley<\/strong> <strong>and Lower Dibang Valley<\/strong>, as well as parts of Upper Siang and Lohit.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>are known for their weaving and craftsmanship skills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They can be distinctively <strong>identified by their typical hairstyle, distinctive customs and artistic pattern embedded on their clothes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population<\/strong>: The tribe is estimated to comprise around <strong>12,000 people<\/strong> (as per the census 2011).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong>: Their language, called \u2018<strong>Idu Mishmi\u2019<\/strong>, is <strong>considered endangered by UNESCO.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Relation with nature:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traditionally animists<\/strong>, the tribe has <strong>strong ties with the region\u2019s rich flora<\/strong> and <strong>fauna<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tigers are especially important to the Idu Mishmis<\/strong> \u2014 according to Idu mythology, they were born to the same mother, and thus, tigers are their \u201celder brothers\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>While hunting has traditionally been a way of life<\/strong>, the Idu Mishmis <strong>also follow a strict belief system of myths and taboos \u2014 \u2018iyu-ena<\/strong>\u2019 \u2014 that restrict them from hunting many animals, including a <strong>complete prohibition on killing tigers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)?<\/h3>\n<p>NTCA is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC).It was established in 2006 under Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/indigenous-idu-mishmis-protesting-tiger-reserve-8540568\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why the indigenous Idu Mishmis are protesting a proposed tiger reserve in Arunachal Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idu Mishmi is a sub-tribe of the larger Mishmi group in Arunachal Pradesh and neighbouring Tibet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}