Those who resettled in Laos lived there peacefully through 1975 and became known as Tai Dam. In 1975, when the Communists took over Laos, the Tai Dam fled to Thailand to seek asylum. From Thailand, 12,000 Tai Dam were resettled in France, Canada, Australia, and …

'Refugees Welcome': New documentary tells story of Tai Dam people finding a home in Iowa. 1975 was the year of change and hope for thousands of people a world away.

The Tai people in Hanoi, less than 1% of the total population, became refugees overnight. Afraid of persecution, they fled to South Vietnam and Laos in July of 1954. After twenty years in Laos, almost all Tai people had re-established their lives, built …

2018年12月11日 · THE TAI DAM POPULATION IN IOWA TODAY. Today Iowa is home to more Tai Dam people than anywhere else outside of Southeast Asia. Around half of the Tai Dam in the state of Iowa live in the Tai Dam Village located in the capital city of Des Moines.

The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .

In addition to cultural and historical projects, the TSC is supporting Tai Dam students for higher education, and engaged in economic and humanitarian projects directed towards the Tai people living in Northwest Vietnam.

In 1975, a distinct ethnic group called the Tai Dam wanted to settle as a group in the United States. Natives of Vietnam, they had been in Laos for 20 years in 1975. An American overseas petitioned many Governors to help.

The Black Tai (AKA, Tai Dam) live along the banks of the Red and Black Rivers in northern Vietnam. Some moved south and are now settled mainly in Tung Nghia, Tho Thanh, and Pleiku. Their tonal language, Tai Dam, belongs to a larger cultural-linguistic grouping of …

The Tai Dam are one of the few members of the Tai branch of people that never embraced Buddhism. They are animists. They believe that "non-human objects" have spirits, and that people have multiple souls.

WELL, THIS WEEK, STREAMING PLATFORM SOME VERY LOCAL RELEASED A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MIGRATION OF THE TAI DAM PEOPLE TO IOWA. THE COMMUNITY STARTED SETTLING DOWN IN THE STATE BACK IN...