As a young immigrant from Laos, growing up in Seattle and attending a predominantly white school, Mey Saelee didn't care to learn about her culture and didn't see a need to study her native ...

LAO HILL TRIBES: Traditions and Patterns of Existence, by Stephen Mansfield. Images of Asia: Oxford University Press, 2000. 120 pp., 21 color plates, 24 monochrome, unpriced. In a sense, Laos ...

He is not Thai, like them, but Hmong, a member of a once-fierce and primitive tribe from the hills of Laos that fought on the side of the Americans during the Vietnam War.

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And in order to eradicate production, an estimated 65,000 hill tribe people have been displaced from the mountains of northern Laos where the opium poppy thrives. A survey by UN development consultant ...

Ian Baird, who worked to protect wildlife and people’s livelihoods in Laos, is specializing in the upland groups at the University of Wisconsin. Southeast Asian Hill Tribes Lead a Wanderer to ...

Nestled in the northern mountains of Thailand, the hill tribes are a mosaic of diverse ethnic groups, each with its own ...

TRIBES HILL — A Tribes Hill man faces multiple charges for a series of domestic violence incidents over the past month, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Keith Rajkowski, 33 ...

Whoever finally wins control of Laos will have a prime headache from a band of wiry mountain tribesmen who wear their hair in a tangled bun, ... Laos: Fighting Tribe. 3 minute read.