GALO

About:

• The Galos belong to the Tani group inhabiting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, besides Tibet.
  
  
• Galos are one of the 26 major communities of Arunachal Pradesh. They dominate West Siang, Lepa Rada and Lower Siang districts in Arunachal Pradesh and have a big population in East Siang, Upper Subansiri and Namsai districts too.
  
  
• They trace their common origin to a primeval ancestor, Abotani. But unlike the Mising (Assam), Adi, Apatani, Nyishi and Tagin, the other communities, only the Galos maintain genealogy through given names.
  
  
• They have a system of prefixing the second syllable of a father’s name to that of a son, who passes on the suffix in his name to his son. thus, they can trace the names of ancestors from the first syllable or prefix of our names.