Posted on 11/23/2004 7:02:06 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Hunting is a tradition many Hmong have continued to pursue since resettling here from Laos, though not always smoothly.
Some Hmong hunters in the Twin Cities say they have been targets of harassment and intimidation. Some of their white counterparts complain that the former refugees, used to unregulated hunting in their homeland, sometimes fail to comply with modern hunting regulations and wildlife management practices.
"A lot of these hunters are people who have a strong tradition in hunting," said Hmong activist Michael Yang of St. Paul, who joined friends looking for deer on his first hunting trip a few weeks ago. "That was one of the bases of survival back in the old days. You go out there in your farm fields and hunt what you need."
Hunters of all kinds expressed shock Sunday at the arrest of Chai Vang of St. Paul in shootings that killed five people and injured three during a dispute over a deer stand in western Wisconsin. The natural resources departments in Minnesota and Wisconsin, home to more than 75,000 Hmong counted in the 2000 census, have both hired Hmong conservation officers to help bridge the gap between Hmong hunting traditions and today's regulations.
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Don't blame word games with me, dork.
Our laws mean the laws of the United States...you know, our current laws!
The bottom line is that there seems to be a problem among some segments of the Hmong population with obeying hunting and fishing laws. A number of people on this thread have anecdotally stated so.
Property lines and fishing limits are part of our laws. If people come to this country, they are expected to obey those laws without resorting to the "Gee, we never had laws like this back in my old country".
Now shut up!
I had the same trouble on my farm in Tennessee with some of my neighbors who seemded to think that since they had always hunted on my land (before I bought it) they should always be able to hunt on it. Some of them were fairly disagreeable about it and we had several tense moments until I invited a good friend of mine down to do a little shooting. My friend is a class three firearms dealer and brought several toys with him for which I contributed the ammo. We fired off a conservative 10,000 rounds that day, full auto and I never had a bit of trouble with my neighbors after that. Amazing what the sound of automatic weapons will do for relationships.
Turns out, in Hmong culture, if you kidnap a girl from her family's house, it's a bit like a proposal for marriage, so to speak, and Mr. Hmong was just trying to get married by sneaking into her room in the middle of the night and kidnapping her.
Fresno cops had to explain that, uh, we don't do things like that here. Kidnapping? No. 12 YO bride? No.
LOL. Steve, what happened? It looks like I missed out on all of the fun!
First of all, we need to look at the facts, cause of why and how the hmong guy turned into rage, in shooting then other guys. I believe there is no hatting from the hmong guy. I believe someone had done something that got him very upset. Why would anyone go and shoot such killings? Beside he was alone why would he be soo stupide to be shooting anyone? Yes he is in private grounds but, its a bigg woods, who would of known they are in private property. I believe someone has done something soo wrong that cause him to do soo... Regardless of what anyone says on the site, media or adds, or about the negative things of how the hmong people was huntting, I believe the truth will come out. And the truth will come out, what really happend that got him to do so.
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