29 Facts About Hmong people

In Southeast Asia, Hmong people are referred to by other names, including: Vietnamese: Meo, Mong or H'Mong; Lao: ??? or ?? ; Thai: ??? or ?? ; Burmese: .

Hmong people fought against central governments for thousands of years while having a reputation of being hospitable and friendly to the French colonizers.

The Hmong people allied with the French against the Communists during the whole Indochina War and with the Americans during the whole Vietnam War, hoping to resist communist Viet Minh control.

The Hmong-Mien and Sino-Tibetan speaking people are known as hill tribes in Thailand; they were the subject of the first studies to show an impact of patrilocality vs matrilocality on patterns of mitochondrial DNA vs male-specific portion of the Y chromosome variation.

Migration of Hmong people speaking these languages from South China to Southeast Asia took place ca.

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Recent Y-DNA phylogeny evidence supports the proposition that people who speak the Hmong–Mien languages are descended from a population that is distantly related to those who now speaks the Mon-Khmer languages.

Time of Proto-Hmong people-Mien has been estimated to be about 2500 BP by Sagart, Blench, and Sanchez-Mazas using traditional methods employing many lines of evidence, and about 4243 BP by the Automated Similarity Judgment Program, an experimental algorithm for automatic generation of phonologically based phylogenies.

Hmong people were subjected to persecution and genocide by the Qing dynasty government.

Since 1949, the Miao Hmong people has been an official term for one of the 56 official minority groups recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China.

Clan leaders took opposite sides and as a consequence, several thousand Hmong participated in the fighting against the Pathet Lao Communists, while perhaps as many were enrolled in the People's Liberation Army.

In Laos, numerous Hmong people genuinely tried to avoid getting involved in the conflict in spite of the extremely difficult material conditions under which they lived during wartime.

Additionally, a spiritual leader Zong Zoua Her, as well as other Hmong people leaders, including Pa Kao Her or Pa Khao Her, rallied some of their followers in an additional factionalized guerrilla resistance movement called ChaoFa .

The Thai government attempted to repatriate these refugees, but the Wat Tham Krabok Hmong people refused to leave and the Lao government refused to accept them, claiming they were involved in the illegal drug trade and were of non-Lao origin.

Several thousand Hmong people, fearing forced repatriation to Laos if they were not accepted for resettlement in the U S, fled the camp to live elsewhere within Thailand where a sizable Hmong population has been present since the 19th century.

In 2004 and 2005, thousands of Hmong people fled from the jungles of Laos to a temporary refugee camp in the Thai province of Phetchabun.

Many Hmong people refugees resettled in the United States after the Vietnam War.

Hmong people families scattered across all 50 states but most found their way to each other, building large communities in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Hmong people have their own terms for their subcultural divisions.

Hmong people groups are often named after the dominant colors or patterns of their traditional clothing, style of head-dress, or the provinces from which they come.

Furthermore, the bill called for the use of oral histories and first-hand accounts by Hmong people who had participated in the war and were caught up in its aftermath.

Hmong people feels that the use of "Hmong" in reference to both groups perpetuates the marginalization of the Mong Leng language and culture.

Some non-Chinese Hmong people advocate for the term 'Hmong people' to be used not only to designate their dialect group They generally claim that the word "Miao" or "Meo" is a derogatory term, with connotations of barbarism, that probably should not be used at all.

Scholarly and commercial exchanges, increasingly made over the Internet, have resulted in an exchange of terminology, including some Hmong people accepting the designation "Miao" after visiting China and some nationalist non-Hmong Miao peoples identifying as Hmong.

Since the Hmong people are an ethnic minority in Vietnam, their loyalty toward the Vietnamese state has been frequently questioned by the state.

The Hmong people were then registered by the state as the Meo hill tribe.

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Many Hmong people refugees resettled in the United States after the Vietnam War.

Hmong people families scattered across all 50 states but most found their way to each other, building large communities in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Sunisa "Suni" Lee of Saint Paul, Minnesota is a notable Hmong people-American; she is a three time Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics.

Canada's small Hmong people population is mostly concentrated within the province of Ontario.