Festivals, particularly those celebrated during springs and at the end of sowing and after harvests, are still celebrated, but without the traditional rites and rituals. It is during these festivals that the brewing and drinking of rice beer is tacitly permitted, otherwise strictly pro-prohibited by the Church. Nagaland has been declared a dry state, a decade ago, yet alcoholic beverages still flows to the state from all places and ordinary people pay hefty sum just to drink them. Just as wealthy men would feed the whole village during feasts of merit in the past, today the Churches give feasts during Christmas and other important Christian events to the community.

An important provision the Indian government agreed to during the negotiations for Statehood was the customary law would hold precedence in the settlement of disputes in Nagaland. The village councils were, thus able to survive though the Morungs died out. A generation passed by, many Naga’s left their villages and went to the towns but, it is still in the villages founded in time of their legends that most Naga’s live in. The villagers dream of an easier life for their children but it’s after all a dream. Few old women still adorn themselves with what is left of the treasured ornaments of beads, bone, feathers, iridescent, beetle wings and everything around them that they found precious and beautiful. The old men may have lost their chance to become headhunting heroes but they still dance the war dances adorned in warrior’s accouterments. There are many Naga’s who fly to other parts of the country and even the world while there are so many of their own people for whom a bus trip to the nearest town is far as abroad as they will ever go. The man who drives his own car today once a little boy who use to climb trees when he saw a British administrator riding a terrifying, smoke blenching , rip roaring animal that he did not know was a motorcycle. The woman who turns on the kitchen tap to fill her pot used to walk barefooted to the village stream every day to fetch water in bamboo containers carried in the basket strapped to her head.

In spite of all set backs, behind the suspicion and the anxiety over the political issues, social crisis, changes to the Naga society in the recent years, the Naga’s throughout the decades have grown in knowledge and freedom, which many would agree is the real point of the Naga History.