Vocabulary
Characters
The Melting Pot
Events
Why Merced?
100
Hmong Shaman
What is "txiv neeb"?
100
Preferred to care for her daughter herself
Who is Foua?
100
The Hmong who lived in Oregon relocated to California because of the chance to participate in the agriculture and the chance to farm, took this Interstate down to California.
What is I-5?
100
Lia had a grand mal seizure that lasted nearly two hours and another one on her transport to Valley Children's Hospital. This eventually left her comatose.
What happened November 25, 1986?
100
The Hmong community can be found by crossing the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad, moving in a direction away from the tree lined residential streets of the town. Ironically, prior to the railroad's existence, the area now inhabited by Hmong was known as
What is Chinatown?
200
The spirit catches you and you fall down
What is "Quag dab peg"? (kow da pay)
200
The Doctors at MCMC treating Lia
Who is Neil and Peggy Ernst?
200
This program, RCA, gave low income refugees monetary help when they arrived in the United States.
What is Refugee Cash Assistance?
200
Lia's mother bought her funeral clothes instead because the doctors thought she wouldn't make it. This action occured at what time in the Hmong culture?
What happened during the Hmong New Year?
200
In Hmong apartments, you see these more on their parking lots than cars?
What is herb gardens?
300
spirits in the world and can cause a wide variety of illnesses through various mechanisms
What is "Dab"? (da)
300
Lia's CPS caseworker
Who is Jeanine Hilt?
300
The Hmong resisted this, where they would have taken part of the American culture. Instead the Hmong participated in Accommodation, where they kept their Hmong identity.
What is Assimilation?
300
Lia was taken home by her family.
What happened on December 9, 1986?
300
He is an early immigrant and promoted Merced
Who is Dang Moua?
400
Tying strings around one's wrist to keep the soul in the body
What is "Khi tes"? (ki tay)
400
Spent many years fighting the dabs as a triv neeb and restoring sick people to health
Who is Shee Yee?
400
In a survey that was conducted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement & the Institute of Mental Health , they found that the Hmong had high rates of this mental illness.
What is Depression?
400
Lee family arrives in the United States of America.
What happened on December 18, 1980?
400
There are this many Hmong clans in Merced
What is Fourteen?
500
calling of the spirit to be in good health (Sickness, birth, wedding, new year)
What is "hu plig"?
500
Believes in finding a conjoint treatment option using cultural healing and western medicine
Who is Arthur Kleinman?
500
In this Bill, welfare was to be denied to legal immigrants, causing many Hmong to apply for citizenship.
What is 1996 Welfare Reform Bill?
500
Jeanine Hilt passes away.
What happened in 1993?
500
As of 2010, this state has the largest Hmong population in the U.S.
What is California?
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