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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 .
"Refugees Welcome" is the story of how the Tai Dam came to Iowa, Gov. Robert Ray and a love story that followed.
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.
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When the American Indians first arrived (in what is now Iowa) thousands of years ago they would hunt and gather living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape. By the time European explorers visited Iowa, American Indians were largely settled farmers with complex economic, social, and political systems. This transformation happened gradually.
Tai Meuiy – 40,000+ people in Borikhamxai, Khammouan, Xiengkhouang, and Houaphan (just outside the town of Xam Neua) provinces of Laos. Their language is reportedly similar to Tai Dam and Tai Men. Tai Nyo – 13,000 people in Pakkading District, Borikhamxai Province, Laos; 50,000 people in northeastern Thailand, where they are better known as ...
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term " Asian American " was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese , Japanese , and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes.