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Hmong women worked as housekeepers, child-bearers and caretakers, cooks, and tailors, and were responsible for making all of their families’ clothes and preparing all meals. Women also planted, harvested, and cleared fields with their husbands, carried water from the river, tended to the animals, and helped build their own houses and furniture.
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.
For a small village, it takes 3–5 days. Hmong New Year celebration itself consists to tossing balls, wearing colorful clothings, singing Hmong tradition poem songs. Colorful fabrics mean a lot of things in Hmong history and culture. This is very important to Hmong men and women because the New Year only comes once a year.
Gender construct of Hmong women, traditionally, socially and politically, have historically been oppressive and marginalizing. Even in traditional Hmong cloth (paj ntaub) and folklore (dab neej) Hmong gender roles are concretely sewn and told, and repeated. Misogyny and patriarchy in the Hmong community is present to this day which calls for ...
Sandy'Ci Moua, Hmong American actress; community organizer; production assistant and consultant; Shen Congwen, 沈从文, Miao Chinese writer from the May Fourth Movement; Sheng Thao, First Hmong Woman to serve on the Oakland City Council; SomXai Vue First Hmong American served in the Thornton City Council in Colorado.
Detail of a Hmong skirt with hemp cloth and batik elements. Most traditional forms of Hmong textiles were originally made with hand-spun hemp fabric. [1] Hemp, a species of cannabis, would be grown in small family or community farming plots until the plants were ready to be harvested and processed by Hmong women.
Hmong may refer to: Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand; Hmong cuisine; Hmong customs and culture. Hmong music; Hmong textile art; Hmong language, a continuum of closely related tongues/dialects Hmong–Mien languages; Pahawh Hmong, an indigenous semi-syllabic script
The Hmong women's response was that it would be easier, more convenient, and more economical to grow their own crops. These agricultural techniques and way of living were passed down to them by their parents and grandparents back in Laos and as a result these are the few skills that they have available to them.