Ao Naga
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The Aos are a major Naga ethnic group native to Mokokchung District of Nagaland in Northeast India.[2] Their main territory is from Tsüla (Dikhu) Valley in the east to Tsürang (Disai) Valley in the west in Mokokchung District.
Regions with significant populations | |
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India | |
Nagaland | 226,625[1] |
Languages | |
Ao language (Mongsen, Chungli) | |
Religion | |
Animism (historical), Protestantism (chiefly Baptist) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Naga people |
The Ao Nagas refer to themselves as Aoer, which means "those who came" from across the Dikhu river.[3]
They were the first Nagas to embrace Christianity, and by virtue of this development, the Aos availed themselves of the Western education that came along with Christianity.[citation needed] In the process the Aos pioneered among the Nagas in many fields.[citation needed] Christianity first entered into the Ao territory when an American Baptist missionary, Edward Winter Clark, reached an Ao village called Molungkimong in 1872.[citation needed]