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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.
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.
The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States. [ 2 ] This practice has a blend of animistic theology, [ 3 ] the respect between people and natural land spirits, and the understanding of the spirituality that are understood by Miao peoples.
There are eleven chapters in the book. The history of the Hmong people is discussed in Chapters 1 through 3. The traditional culture of the Hmong, the 19th Century migration of Hmong into Southeast Asia, and the opium-producing role of the Hmong and that effect on global politics and international trade are all chronicled in Chapters 4 through 6.
Miao folkdance – Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.
The Fresno Center CEO Pao Yang, center, with councilperson Mike Karbassi, left, and Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, right, laugh together as they have photos taken at the 2023 Hmong American Day ...
Of the 260,073 Hmong-Americans, 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity or race. The Hmong-American population is among the youngest of all groups in the United States, with the majority being under 30 years old, born after 1980, with most part-Hmong are under 10 years old.
A traditional Hmong wedding consisted of three separate ceremonies of animal sacrifices and feasts. In the Hmong society, a woman keeps close relationships with her family and never takes her husband's last name. However, after marriage, she joins her husband's family to work and live with them. [2] If widowed, a Hmong woman has few choices.