Saturday, November 27, 2004
Follow-up to "Wisconsin Struggles to Make Sense of Shootings":
A Hunt Turns Tragic, and Two Cultures Collide [registration required; free for 7 days]
...For all their differences, the native Wisconsin residents and the Asian immigrants from St. Paul share a love of hunting. For generations of Wisconsin families, the deer season has come to mean a time to bond with friends, to wander the woods and to pass along life's secrets to the next generation. For the Hmong, hunting is one of the rare realms in which America's fast-paced culture meshes neatly with their old ways from Laos, and Hmong elders have come to use it as a chance to share at least one rural cultural tradition with the youngest among them, some of whom never saw the hills of Laos.
In the November deer season, the two groups have often met in the woods and sometimes clashed, but mostly quietly until last Sunday. ...
A Hunt Turns Tragic, and Two Cultures Collide [registration required; free for 7 days]
...For all their differences, the native Wisconsin residents and the Asian immigrants from St. Paul share a love of hunting. For generations of Wisconsin families, the deer season has come to mean a time to bond with friends, to wander the woods and to pass along life's secrets to the next generation. For the Hmong, hunting is one of the rare realms in which America's fast-paced culture meshes neatly with their old ways from Laos, and Hmong elders have come to use it as a chance to share at least one rural cultural tradition with the youngest among them, some of whom never saw the hills of Laos.
In the November deer season, the two groups have often met in the woods and sometimes clashed, but mostly quietly until last Sunday. ...
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