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To Allow Native Americans to use their Native names on their profiles. Many Native Americans are being forced to have their Legal Native American names removed and are being forced to use fake names because their real names were not acceptible to be used. This is dsicrimination and disrespectful. Their Native names are legal and […]
DEJA VU – THAI TREATMENT OF HILL TRIBE PEOPLES VIS-A-VIS U.S. TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS The Thai government is once again moving against the Hmong people at Wat Tham Krabok. A commentary on the Op-Ed page of the Bangkok Post states that “A community crackdown like the one under way at the temple would never be […]
Native Americans Origins News In the past few weeks there have been several updates in regards to information pertaining to the mysterious origins of Native Americans. Although, as usual, the new information is not definitive, it seemingly adds new possibilities which researchers will now attempt to evaluate in comparison to existing theory. The first piece […]
Native Americans from Mongolia? Dr Theodore Schurr, from the University of Pennsylvania has published DNA research that revealed genetic markers linking people living in Mongolia and southern Siberia, with indigenous populations in North America. A study of the mutations indicated a lineage shift between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago – when people are thought to have […]
Process Profile: Andre Yang Discusses “Why I Feel the Way I Do About SB 1070″ In a way, I have been writing this poem all my life, and considering all the things I discuss in the poem, it really does span my life. The poem was written to express my feelings about the inception and […]
The Hmong Religious Experience Conflict The cultural changes that have been brought forth have been drastic enough to cause conflict between Hmong Christians and Hmong Animists. All the new changes also brought division and difference between Christians and animists. In marriage, the “majority of conflict concerned the refusal to pay bride wealth at weddings, resulting […]
Hill Tribes of Chiang Mai – Lisu, Hmong, and Karen in Northern Thailand The Northern Thailand administrative region is known for its population of native hill tribes which, much like the Native Americans of the United States, are an ethnic minority. They are divided into various tribes and clans, each with its own set of […]
Hmong Traditions: Understanding a Way of Life INTRODUCTION The Hmong migrated to Southeast Asia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Prior to their arrival in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, the Hmong lived a simple agrarian lifestyle in China. They settled along the Yellow River. Eventually, the Han Chinese came along and both groups lived […]
Andre Yang WHY I FEEL THE WAY I DO ABOUT SB 1070 If the hurt in someone else hurts us, in a man we don’t know, who is present always and is the victim and the enemy and love and all we need to be whole. –Rosario Castellanos, The Other Because my fifth grade teacher, […]
Hmong and Native-American I am Hmong and after reading the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by _insert author name here_, I think the Hmong and the Native-Americans are similar. They both are losing thier culture and language. If a Native-American person said he has a lot of siblings, he is not […]
