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SOME LITERATURE AVAILABLE ABOUT THE MIENH PEOPLE

I. Mien CULTURE IN U.S. AND ASIA

1. Letter to "Sponsors and friends of the Mien" 7 pages 1/1980,LEC
2. Letter to "Sponsors and friends of the Mien" 9 pages 3/1981, LEC
3. The Yao -Neighbors from Antiquity (Sawaddi Magazine, Bangkok, 1/65) 3p LEC
4. The Vicious Poppy (Sawaddi Magazine, Bangkok, about 1966) 3 pages LEC
5. Neighbors from Antiquity. Redding Calif. presentation May 1992 9 p. LEC
6. People's Court, Mien style. To law enforcement officers. 2 pages 1993 LEC
7. Cross Cultural Presentation to Hospital, Richmond, CA 1993, 4 pages LEC
8. "Meet the Mien" & Population Estimates, 1997, 2 pages CWC

II. GENERAL MATERIALS CONCERNING ASIAN REFUGEES

1. From 'refugee' to Neighbor (World Vision Magazine, June 1982) 3 p. LEC
2. There is a helpful pamphlet entitled: CAL Fact Sheet Series #2 THE Mien It was done by Language and Orientation Center, Center for Applied Linguistics, 3520 Prospect St., NW Washington, DC 20007, August 1981, 11 pages. Tel. (800) 424-3750 &/or 3701. Also (202) 298-9292
3. Sharing love with Indochinese refugees. 2 papers, 1987. 14 pages LEC/CWC
4. Selected, annotated Bibliography, one page

III. SPECIAL MATERIALS FOR CHRISTIANS WORKING WITH THE Mien

1. Letter to "Sponsors and others assisting Mien Christians" 9/1984, 6 p.LEC
2. Workshop on Mien Culture and Evangelization, Oakland, CA '89, 21p.LEC/CWC

IV. TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO THE Mien

1. English-Mien language lessons Module 2 "Medicine and the Doctor" 7p.LEC This is excerpted from the script prepared for tape recordings made in 1982 to help the Mien learn English. The full script is still available but the Mien text for that edition is in the Thai script, which few U.S. Mien can read rather than the new Unified English-letter script. 50 p.
2. An English Course for Pre-literates. Prepared in 1980 for those teaching English to Mien and using the tape series mentioned under IV.1 above. This has some cross-cultural information. 108 pages LEC

V. MATERIALS TO HELP WESTERNERS LEARN MIEN

1. Proposal for Mien Language Seminar, 1989. 3 pages LEC
2. Mien Glossary, August 1989. Small 15 page booklet. 30 pages LEC
3. Notes for 1st seminar on Mien language, Grammar, Section # 1, 5 p. LEC
4. Course for learning Mien language - Getting acquainted, 6 pages LEC
5. Text for homework at seminar #2, Oakland, CA Luke 8:4-15, 5 pages LEC
6. Mien scripture texts (John 15, etc.) to use as homework. 7 pages LEC
7. Using Thai orthography to write Mien. About 1980. 6 pages LEC
8. A brief history of the development of the Mien Script, 6/94 3 pages LEC
9. An experiment in Mother Tongue Literacy for Mien, 6/94 2 pages LEC

You may make additional copies of any items we have prepared (i.e. those followed by our initials LEC or CWC).