2003 · Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai: Akha Heritage Foundation, 2003. 272p., wraps lightly shelfworn, small red ownership stamp in Chinese on blank flyleaf. Journal founded by Matthew McDaniel, an anti-missionary activist married to an Akha woman, to defend traditional Akha culture. Articles include extensive discussion of missionary destruction of Akha life, including taking children away from their families; US-Thai drug war killings of indigenous people, updates on local events in the Thai-Laos-Burma border region, culture notes, and sections in Akha and in Thai. (Inventory #: 165266)