The Naga tradition refers to the rich oral and written poetic heritage of the Naga people of Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar, characterized by folk songs, war chants, harvest hymns, and ritual verses that encode history, cosmology, and communal values; traditionally transmitted through performance with music and dance, Naga poetry often employs parallelism, repetition, and nature-based symbolism, and has increasingly entered literary circulation through bilingual publications and contemporary Naga poets like Temsüla Ao and Easterine Kire, who blend indigenous motifs with modern forms to assert cultural identity in postcolonial contexts.

Naga tradition is Northeast Indian oral poetry. Features praise songs, historical narratives. Study in context of tribal literature and oral traditions. Typically communal; transmitted through performance rather than text.