From akha@loxinfo.co.th Wed Dec 22 05:40:34 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA60054 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 05:40:33 -0800 Received: from chmai.loxinfo.co.th (root@chmai.loxinfo.co.th [203.146.0.65]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA05792; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 05:40:31 -0800 Received: from loxinfo.co.th (p8-criHS1.N.loxinfo.net.th [203.146.34.8]) by chmai.loxinfo.co.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28761; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:23:38 +0700 Message-ID: <3860D202.548D2D77@loxinfo.co.th> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:28:42 +0700 From: Matthew McDaniel Reply-To: akha@chmai.loxinfo.co.th X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akha@loxinfo.co.th, Endangered Languages Linguist list Subject: Missions in North Thailand and the Akha: One Observer's Findings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Missionaries and the Akha: > > My personal view: > > I have been in north of Thailand myself and have seen what have > happend with > the villages that have been christianed. It is from those villages > that most > young girls are sent to prostitution to for example Bangkok. It is in > those > villages you see most of poorness and bad things. It is in those > villages > they have lost all their traditions and they do not know anymore how > to > treat and take care of different situations in life. They are also > weaker > and have problems to stand against for example thais that recrute > drughandlers for missions to and from Burma. > > Read and distribute this mail to people that can affect that christian > > missionaries follow the rules from UN and international laws. What > happends > to Akha people and other hilltribes are against Thai law and are not > seen > positive by thai authorities. There can be som thais working for > government > that are "blind". The christian mission together with power people > that take > over the hilltribes land and plant pineforrests (not normally in > Thailand > fauna)are very big threat and totally damage the culture of all > hilltribes, > traditions and possibilities to a life in freedom. Instead will the > hilltribes be converted to a slaveclass to work on the fields for some > more > greedy thais or to be shown as some kind of monkeys in a circus for > paying > tourists from the west. > > Svenne -- Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation 386/3 Sailom Joi Rd Maesai, Chiangrai, 57130 Thailand Mobile Phone Number: Sometimes hard to reach while in Mountains. 66-01-881-9288 US Address: Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA By Visa Card Secure Site: https://www.givetocharity.com/cgi-bin/give.pl?CODE=10956 Donations by direct banking can be transferred to: (Preferred) Wells Fargo Bank Akha Heritage Foundation Acc. # 0081-889693 Keizer Branch # 1842 04 4990 N. River Road. Keizer, Oregon, 97303 USA ABA # 121000248 Or In Thailand: Matthew Duncan McDaniel Acc. # 3980240778 Bangkok Bank Ltd. Maesai Branch Thailand Web Site: http://www.akha.com mailto:akha@loxinfo.co.th Discussion Groups: akha@onelist.com indigenousworld@onelist.com .