A Hmong shaman blesses a pregnant woman so that she will have a safe birth. (Photo: Shuka Kalantari) A Hmong shaman dressed in an ornate red and pink costume is standing in a crowded living room in ...

A small hospital in California's Central Valley is taking a unique approach to health care, allowing spiritual shamans to perform healing ceremonies on patients in conjunction with the hospital ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO (Associated Press) ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate ...

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In Merced, you might stand next to a Hmong shaman in the line at a supermarket and not know it. You might see him wearing a hospital badge on his way to visit a patient. Or you might hear signs of the ...

Shamanism is alive and well in the Hmong community today: a typical weekend for any Hmong person in this day and age is usually booked with family engagements. Whether it’s a spirit calling for a ...

Sandy’Ci Moua and Kuoa Fong Lo, coming from different cities and without knowing one another, each proposed panel discussions on the new wave of shamanism for the 2013 Hmong National Development [HND] ...

A Hmong elder who practitioners of shamanism say can speak with the spirit world will share her knowledge of the religion Thursday at St. Cloud State University. Yia Lee will talk about her ...

In the 1980s, Lia Lee, a child born to Hmong parents in the Northern California city of Merced, had her first seizure at three months old. She was brought to a community medical center, but there were ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Minnesota, Creative Theatre Unlimited and UCare Minnesota (UCare) have found that Hmong cultural attitudes ...

California’s Central Valley is home to thousands of Hmong refugees from Laos. But local hospitals and doctors there have struggled to treat them. Traditionally the Hmong were more likely to see a ...