enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hmong people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people

    The Hmong people (RPA: Hmoob, CHV: Hmôngz, Nyiakeng Puachue: 𞄀𞄩𞄰, Pahawh Hmong: 𖬌𖬣𖬵, IPA:, Chinese: 苗族蒙人) are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people .

  3. Hmong customs and culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_customs_and_culture

    It is, generally, from the 9th month to the 11 month of the Chinese Lunar calendar that Miao, Hmong people in China celebrate the new year. Often, it lasted between five and fifteen days. In the Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Burma, Hmong people celebrate it between October and November. It depends on their crops.

  4. Hmong women and childbirth practices - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_Women_and_Childbirth...

    A large part of Hmong women's culture is sewing. Hmong women are highly skilled and famous for their fine needlework and embroidery called paj ntaub (flower cloth). An example of this ancient craft can be found in Chinese art albums. Women spend years on one piece of clothing for a wedding or other celebratory attire.

  5. Hmong Americans are often obscured by model minority myth ...

    www.aol.com/hmong-americans-often-obscured-model...

    Lee’s Olympic gold isn’t about meritocracy in the U.S.: It’s a reflection of the resilience of Hmong Americans, a predominantly refugee community, as well as her own, experts said.

  6. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by California ...

    www.aol.com/hmong-culture-1960s-war-torn...

    “If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...

  7. Miao people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miao_people

    A Hmong woman and Han Chinese man married and founded northern Thailand's Lau2, or Lauj, clan, [44], with another Han Chinese man of the family name Deng founding another Hmong clan. Some scholars believe this lends further credence to the idea that some or all of the present day Hmong clans were formed in this way.

  8. Is the umbrella term ‘Asian American’ even accurate anymore?

    www.aol.com/umbrella-term-asian-american-even...

    The Minnesota Department of Health, like most other governmental bodies in the country, reported deaths of Hmong people, an ethnic minority group of Southeast Asia, as broadly “Asian American.”

  9. Hmong Americans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_Americans

    The Hmong were also more involved in political activities that 57 percent of the Hmong in Minnesota regarded themselves as Democrats, shown by a survey in 2008, and several Hmong people, including Madison P. Nguyen, former Hmong refugee women in Minnesota, had been elected political staffs in city offices.