but the Iu-Mien people didn’t create their own written language using Latin letters until 1984, long after they’d fled Laos, where they’d served with U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.

“I am Iu Mien.” During the Vietnam War, the CIA and U.S. military ... “This attention that we’re getting — people are interested in what the community is, who we are, where we came ...

It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group ... to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War. “I am born in Laos, but I am not Laotian ...

“Thank you for devoting your life to the Mien people,” said translator Koy Saephan ... CIA-backed battle against communists during the Vietnam War. About 12,000 Mien settled in the Sacramento ...

According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam www.gso.gov.vn, Vietnam has a population size of more than 96 million people comprising 54 official ... Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai, and ...

It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group ... to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War. “I am born in Laos, but I am not Laotian ...

It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group ... to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War. "I am born in Laos, but I am not Laotian ...

Photo: KQED/Don Clyde The Mien people of Laos had to leave in a hurry after the end of the Vietnam War. Like another Southeast Asian minority, the Hmong, the Mien supported the US (specifically, the ...