Framing the Montagnard legal perspective as the intersection of Montagnard CULTURE crushed by US intervention and war, HISTORIC CLAIMS to ancestral lands, HUMAN AND INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS as indigenous people and US LAW and CIVIL RIGHTS. Outside the community, this perspective is almost wholly unknown. Located in the American South, with its own history of inequality, it finds itself among new immigrant communities and a largely unresponsive local government.
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Culture and Traditions Y Siu Hlong, Y Hin Nie, HVung Ksor, Lek Siu, Grace Alliance Community (Jarai) Church, North Ridge (Jarai) Church, United Montagnard Christian Church Refugee Experience, Health, Nutrition, Lifestyle Sudha Shreeniwas, Jigna Dharod, Sharon Morrison, Jia Zhang, Janet Sayers, Branda Mlo, Juan Miranda, Wendasha Jenkins Language, Interpretation, Differences, Dialect Distinction Dery Siu, Lap Siu, Andrew Young Civil Rights, Law Enforcement Jon Siu, Y Dem Adrong, Andrew Young, Dery Siu Detention Center Nho Roland Related Cases Jon Siu, Andrew Young Social Services Tuyet Rahlan, Maura Nsonwu, Maryann Busch, Ann Atkins-Bostic, Jean Wegger Immigration Consequences Education Andrew Young Women’s Learning Group, H Wier Siu, Khin H, Kwol Ksa, Betsy Renfrew, Marilyn James, Claire Morse, Karla McDonald Men’s Learning Group, Y Ruih Nie, Jon Siu, Y Dem Adrong | Sources Immigration Legal Resource Center Defending Immigrants Partnership Southern Poverty Law Center Southern Coalition for Social Justice NC Justice Center Montagnard Human Rights Organization |