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As with other ethnic groups in the United States, Uyghur Americans also have several organizations. The most well-known organizations are: the Uyghur American Association, [5] a Washington D.C.–based advocacy organization which was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur overseas activists to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people
As of late 2008, the Uyghur American Association had approximately 600 members. [4] More than 200 members attended the Eighth Congress of the UAA in 2016. [48] The organization has a president and a board of directors [41] [49] which, as of the founding in 1998, consisted of nine members: Chairman, Vice Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer, Director of Public Relations, Director of Education ...
Uyghur Americans are Americans of Uyghur ethnicity. Most Uyghurs immigrated from Xinjiang, China, to the United States from the late 1980s onward, with a significant number arriving after July 2009. The Uyghur American population is small, but growing. Northern Virginia has one of the largest Uyghur populations in the United States. [21]
The history of the Uyghur people extends over more than two millennia and can be divided into four distinct phases: Pre-Imperial (300 BC – AD 630), Imperial (AD 630–840), Idiqut (AD 840–1200), and Mongol (AD 1209–1600), with perhaps a fifth modern phase running from the death of the Silk Road in AD 1600 until the present.
Pages in category "American people of Uyghur descent" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) [note 1] is a US funded international organization of exiled Uyghur groups that claims to "represent the collective interest of the Uyghur people" [2] both inside and outside of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
Nury Turkel is an American attorney, author, public official, and foreign policy expert based in Washington, D.C..He is a former chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and former president of the Uyghur American Association.
Uyghur activist Turgun Almas claimed that Tarim mummies were Uyghurs because the earliest Uyghurs practiced shamanism and the buried mummies' orientation suggests that they had been shamanists; meanwhile, Qurban Wäli claimed words written in Kharosthi and Sogdian scripts as "Uyghur" rather than Sogdian words absorbed into Uyghur according to ...