Guess the ethnicity! Asians who have no country. They mostly live in Southeast Asia. Recently, a number?

Question

of them immigrated to America, mostly concentrated in Sacramento area. They are traditionally Anamist, and some are Christian. They work year long on skirts for the girls to wear on new year's day. Some of their children have blond hair. Some anthropologists believe they came from Siberia. What is their ethnicity?

How did you hear of these people?

Answer 1

Sounds like the Sami, -also called Lapplanders - of Siberia and Northern Scandanavia. The Sami are traditional nomads, following herds of domesticated reigndeer in their seasonal migrations. Many may have been displaced during the world wars. National Geographic Magazine did an article on them back in the seventies. there is a movie called "The Pathfinder" about a boy who becomes a shaman, and the word "Shaman" even comes from these peoples. I don't think that they live in Southeast Asia though. So maybe I am on the wrong track.

The only other nomadic peoples that i can think of off hand are the Bedouin.

Answer 2

my guess wold be the  original people of tibet who had to flee their country when it was taken by the chinese

Answer 3

Russians?

Answer 4

i dont know but i want to find out ill try to reserch then get back to u

is it the Hmongs?

yup just found out for sure now its the hmongs

i heard of of them bu researching through google the term south east asians with naturally blond hair then i looked up hmongs to be sure of my answer

yea i know i have no life :)

Answer 5

Hmong.  There is some very interesting work in Medical Anthropology about the Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome in Hmong refugees/immigrants in the US.  See the link below for a list of scholarly articles about this phenomenon.

Perhaps Western bio-medicine cannot explain everything and is just as culturally constructed as other medical practices elsewhere.