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The Hmong accounts for 6-10% of the total population of Laos, and remain most numerous and concentrated in eastern Xiangkhouang. In the province the White Hmong, the Striped Hmong, and the Green Hmong can be distinguished. The easiest way to differentiate these groups is by looking at the women's dresses.
The first group is the White Hmong ethnic , the second one is the Green Hmong or Hmong Green [31] or Hmong Leng [32] ethnic (Hmoob Leeg or Ntsuab), and the last one is the Black Hmong, Hmong Dou [33] ethnic (Hmoob Dub). There are also some small Hmong ethnic groups like Hmong multicolor (Hmoob Txaij) and Hmong qua npab.
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.
“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 ...
The Hmong Cultural Center Museum, situated in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is an institution operated by the Hmong Cultural Center dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage, history, and experiences of the Hmong people. It is one of the few museums in the US dedicated to this specific culture.
For followers of traditional Hmong spirituality, the shaman, a healing practitioner who acts as an intermediary between the spirit and material world, is the main communicator with the otherworld, able to see why and how someone got sick. The Hmong view healing and sickness as supernatural processes linked to cosmic and local supernatural forces.
Hmong New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in Hmong culture, Vue said. Traditionally, the Hmong are agriculturalists and the new year celebrates the end of the harvest.
Long Tieng was often described as "the most secret place on Earth". It was in a valley at 3,100 feet elevation, high enough to have chilly nights and cold fogs. It was surrounded by mountains and on the northwest side of the runway were karst outcrops several hundred feet high. In the shadow of the karst outcrops was "Sky" the CIA headquarters ...