Seno Tsuhah

Seno Tsuhah is a primary school teacher and Indigenous social activist from the Chakhesang Naga community in Chizami, Nagaland. She is recognised in Northeast India for her work on gender justice and sustainable farming; she has been associated with the feminist organisation, North East Network (NEN), for over twenty years.

Early life Seno Tsuhah is part of the Chakhesang Naga community in Chizami, Nagaland. After eight years of her efforts, Tsuhah managed to convince Chizami village council that women deserved equal wages in unskilled labour. In 2014, the council passed a resolution decreeing equal wages for women agricultural labourers on par with men. The following year, two women were selected to become members of the council. In the highly patriarchal Naga society, the Chizami village council continues to be one of very few that have women as active members.

Indigenous farming Tsuhah is an Indigenous food sovereignty activist. She set up an NEN centre in Chizami which collected fifteen varieties of millet. Tsuhah represented the Chakhesang Naga community at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tsuhah also focuses on role of women in crop selection and seed preservation. Two years later, the Naturenomics award was conferred by the Balipara Foundation in recognition of her pioneering work with Chizami Weaves. In her acceptance, she dedicated the award to the weavers who "become more active and participate in community works in their own village and through this work it has 'visible-lised' the contribution of women." She stated that the award acknowledges the work on sustainable livelihood through textile weaving.