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The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .
History of the Tai peoples and ethnic groups which range west to east from the Ahom of the Upper Brahmaputra river in Assam, to the Shan of Myanmar, Hkamti Shan, Mohnyin (Chinese: Meng Yang, Tai: Mong Yang), Theinni (Chinese: Mu Bang, Tai: Hsenwi), Thibaw (Tai:Hsipaw, Onpaung), Nyaungshwe, Mone (Tai: Mong Nai), Chiang Rung (Sipsongpanna, Chinese: Cheli), Tai Dam and Tai Daeng of northern ...
Like in other Tai societies, the core social units of the Tai Dam, Tai Dón and Tai Daeng were the village (ban) and the chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a feudal lord (chao). Their base of life was wet rice cultivation, which is why the Tai settled in valleys alongside the course of rivers.
It has been suggested that the Fakkham script is the source of the Tai Don, Tai Dam and Tai Daeng writing systems found in Jinping , northern Laos, and Vietnam. [ 4 ] Differences in phonology of the various local Tai languages, the isolation of communities and the fact that the written language has traditionally been passed down from father to ...
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The relatively significant African-American immigration to the southern Iowa coal fields led to largely African-American settlements such as Buxton. [ 116 ] The first World War brought more African-American immigrants to Iowa, as Fort Des Moines had been designated as "the only camp in the United States for the training of [African American ...
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, inspiring hope among Indigenous activists who pushed for rewilding to help save salmon.