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The connectedness of the Sümi Nagas with their environment is reflected in their resource stewardship embodying planning, management and conservation. For instance, including, but not limited to, prohibition of harming/killing totemic non-human entities; regulations and penalties for all modes of fishing during spawning cycle and breeding phases of fishes; confiscation of indigenous-made and/or licensed guns during the months of February-May to deter hunting of birds and animals; taboo and trepidation to forage certain flora and fauna; and consciousness to avoid disruption in the migration routes of animals. These indigenous precepts and ordinances instated through local institutions are resilient in essence to maintain equilibrium between the communities, pattern of subsistence and replenishment rate of their ecosystem. This nexus facilitates a potential synergy to be further developed as success protocols and replicability models in other indigenous and non-indigenous settings. We only take what we need and leave the rest to replenish succour the principal value of ecocentrism.