Posted on 01/07/2007 5:54:45 PM PST by SmithL
Green Bay -- A Hmong hunter has been found dead in a wildlife area in a case that is stirring memories of a mass shooting that exposed racial tensions.
Cha Vang, 30, of Green Bay, was found dead Saturday morning, a night after he was reported missing in the Peshtigo Harbor Wildlife Area in northeastern Wisconsin. Investigators have not said how they believe he died but said they are treating the case as a homicide. An autopsy is planned for Monday.
Authorities detained a 28-year-old Peshtigo man, James Nichols, who showed up at a medical center Saturday with a gunshot wound that wasn't life-threatening, said Laurel Steffes, a spokeswoman for the Marinette County Sheriff's Department. He is considered a person of interest but was being held on a parole violation from an unrelated burglary conviction and had not been charged in Vang's death, she said.
Dealings between the Hmong, an ethnic minority group from Southeast Asia, and predominantly white residents of the mostly rural north woods have been on edge since November 2004, when Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang, 38, of St. Paul, Minn., killed six white hunters and injured two while trespassing in a private tree stand.
Chai Vang claimed he acted in self-defense after they shouted racial epithets, cursed at him and one fired a shot in his direction. The former truck driver is serving multiple life terms.
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The Hmong I encountered in Seattle were fairly alienated from the mainstream, although their children were/are very Americanized (in a negative way in many cases). Nevertheless, the work most of the flower stands at the Pike Market.
being held on a parole violation from an unrelated burglary conviction
Unless it was misdemeanor conviction, which seems highly unlikely, this guy had no business out in the words with a gun, since he's prohibited by federal law from having one. (Of course he could have been bow hunting, and AFAIK, even convicted felons can have bows and arrows.)
The Mohawk still claim most of Upstate New York (and have the treaties to back it up). I'm all for handing over Buffalo and Syracuse myself...
The Mohawk still claim most of Upstate New York (and have the treaties to back it up). I'm all for handing over Buffalo and Syracuse myself...
Perhaps. There were so many treaties that were made and broken that I've lost count. And, same as you, I'm not supporting giving anything back either direction. Must say also that my grandparents were born in IT (Indian Territory). That is how Oklahoma was notated prior to 1907. Since it is home and I like it up there I wouldn't change it back. (no, I don't think I am part Amerindian)
What about Rochester?
What about Rochester? He worked for Jack Benny didn't he?
this thread is degenerating
this thread is degenerating
Diversity, it Makes Us Richer.
Too many people on this sight have no concept os sarcasm.
"Mista Benny! Mista Benny!"
Rochester was great.
At least Rochester still has the Eastman School and U of R. The Mohawk can have the rest of that sorry 'burg however.
Sorry, before my time. Hubby used to work for Kodak in Texas. Rochester wasn't looking so good for a company town a couple of years ago.
Aren't tree stands kind'a small for all that to happen in one? Oh, maybe one of those highly nuanced "journalists" and his/her ever even smarter editor meant private stand of trees.
That meant that even the most advanced Indians at the time in the Mississippi Valley didn't attempt to make permanent habitation in Buffalo range land. You'd better believe they stayed out of the Great Plains.
So, absent a presence, no Indian claim can be made satisfactory to a court of equity. On the other hand, Congress has allowed some Indians to have reservations in that territory, but that's all based on events subsequent to DeSoto's interview.
But, back to the main thread here ~ should Texans, who like to shoot doves on powerlines, be accepted as legitimate commenters on Wisconsin's peculiar hunting traditions? Or, alternatively, should everyone give up on Wisconsin and return it to the Oneida (to whom the US government intended to give it) ~ this could have otherwise obscure but real benefits when we disperse the mind-numbed Liberal nexus at University of Wisconsin to the original homelands on college campuses in the East.
The water in Madison would be pure again.
This is a hunting technique analogous to shooting doves on telephone lines.
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