9. Cultural Preservation Working closely with partner Betsy Renfrew, and Pastor Y Hin, we are developing a project to help refugee women from Southeast Asian preserve backstrap weaving and promote its practice.
• Kubler and the Refugee Experience
• Backstrap Weavers Web site
• Ju Nie at the Green Hill Center Winter Show
• A Spring 2011 project with UNC School of the Arts digital media classes
Montagnard community members have kept copies of historical information. Along with other existing translated texts, these could form the raw material for native language classes, an interest expressed by leaders.
• A 1939 Rhade Primer
• A Vietnam War-era Bunong phrase book
Visual memory can also help preserve the past.
• See Chram's drawings
Music is connected with dance.
• A rehearsal of ching (gong) players before the Dega Weatherspoon event.
American vets who supported resettlement of Montagnards are getting older and may be interested in looking back at their shared past and considering the future of the Montagnard American community.
• We've just started making contacts
