This edited volume entitled Tribes of North East India: Orality, Migration and Epistemology is an exploration of divergent perspectives on the intriguingly diverse tribal communities in North East India, departing from the traditional or mainstream approaches. Attempts are made to reposition the approach through the natives’ perspectives on orality, migration and epistemology. Critiquing the existing methods of enquiry related to orality and oral literature by locating the textures and contexts unique to the region within the larger framework of re-telling the folktales, folk songs, myths, legends and re-enacting the folk dances of the tribes indigenous to the region by themselves. It is part of the efforts to contribute to the larger discourse of the tribals to build a narrative independent of the overwhelming mainstream narratives and in contravention to the approaches adopted by the ‘outsiders’ or the non-indigenous writers, ethnographers, anthropologists and colonial administrators.