Hill tribe in Thailand, the land of smiles.

At this site we want to give information about this group of children, especially in the nice Kingdom of Thailand. The ethnic hill tribes in the amazing country Thailand. The most who are living up the mountains in the upland areas of the Golden Triangle, high in the mountains.

Tribe children in Thailand, who live in the high mountains in the North of Thailand.

They live in the mountainous regions of the parts of the Northern Thailand, in Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Originate primarily from Tibet, Middle and Southern China and Myanmar. Each of the tribes has its own language, culture, religion and characteristic dress features. Main tribes are the Akha, the Lhisu, the Hmong, the Karen (well known for the women with long necks), the Lahu and the Mien. They are minorities in the national states they live in, do not have the nationality of those states, and thus can not exercise rights connected to the nationality of these states, in particular regarding housing, education, healthcare and welfare. Generally speaking their standard of living is low. Alcoholism and drug addiction are common.

About the different ethnic Thai hill tribes.

Dividend in Two Sub groups, The Blue and the White. The Hmong Tribes are living in the uppermost regions of Thailand. Originally they come from China and now they stay in Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam and at the Northern parts of Thailand. The Hmong group is well integrated with the Thai society and maybe the most successful hill tribe in Thailand.

In Thailand, the population from the Hmong Tribes is about 150,000 people, an ethnic group in several different countries in South East Asia. The Hmong history is difficult to find and trace, no written records, only an oral tradition. They speaks them own language, they wear them own customs and have them own ways in life. The Hmong's have a social organization, the Hmong society have about eighteen Hmong clans (Cha, Cheng, Chue, Fang, Hang, Her, Khang, Kong, Kue, Lee, Lo, Lor, Moua, Pha, Thao, Vang, Vue, Xiong and Yang).

More about Hmong's in Thailand. The Hmong clan groups are exogamous, that will means that you can not marry someone inside your own clan, you have to find your marriage partner at another clan. the way of marry is a traditional symbolic kidnapping. The Hmong's have traditional spiritual practices as animism, shamanism and ancestor reverence. Spiritual beliefs related to illness, health and death. The Hmong new year celebration is a traditional and cultural tradition in the Hmong communities. Party in Hmong dress, traditional clothes and food, music, dance and many other forms of Hmong entertainment. The Hmong Tribe in Thailand. a ethnic group with traditional lifestyles. The people are independent and diligent and have their own ancient way of life in Northern Thailand.

A Tibeto Burman ethnic group who living in the mountains of South West China, Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. About 55,000 people living in Thailand, where they belong to One of the Six main Hill Tribes in Thailand.

The Lisu practiced slash and burn horticulture. Paddy fields, mountain rice, vegetables and fruit, basic subsistence and the way's to make a living from the Lisu tribe in Thailand.

Hill Tribe Lisu in Northern Thailand.

More about Lisu's in Thailand. The Lisu Hill tribe people in Thailand, the Lisu tribe consists more then 58 different clans. Each clan has its own surname and name. The biggest Lisu clans are Laemae pha (Shue or The Grass), Thorne pha, Ngwa Pha (Fish), Bya pha (The Bee), Naw pha (Thou or Bean), Seu pha ( the Woods) and the Khaw Pha. The most people living in villages high in the mountains. The well know sub group of the Lisu tribe is the Flowery Lisu, due to the hill tribe tourism in Thailand. Lisu women wearing brightly colored dress, Lisu men wearing baggy pants. The Lisu religion is a part ancestor worship and a part animistic, mixed with local religion and systems with traditional rituals in Thailand.

A minority tribe who also know as the "Yao". The Mien Tribe or the Yao Tribe. One of the largest ethnic groups in Thailand. They live in the mountains of Northern Thailand, specially in the Chiang Rai province, Phayao and Nan. The believes and culture of these ethnic group is close to the Chinese one.

The Mien Women wearing "Lui Houx" a traditional unique dress. Traditional clothes of the Yao Hill Tribe in the Chiang Rai province in North Thailand.

Hill Tribe Mien in North Thailand.

More about Mien's in Thailand. The Mien people or the Yao Hill tribe people. The Mien people believe very strong in the spirit world. The combination of Taoism and Animism (Ani-Taoist) religion is a very important role in the religious life of every single Mien family. A spirit altar is build in every tribe village house, the "Mienv baaih". Many unusual and unique beliefs of the Mien Hill Tribes. The Mien people are usually farmers. Rice products and corn products can be sell in town and bring their daily income for the Mien tribe people. The dialect (Mienh waac) have highly tones and is related to Mandarin Chinese language. It has 5 tones and is written in the Thai script.

The Akha's in Thailand. The Akha Hill tribe are subsistence farmers, who are well know for them artistry in the North. The Akha Tribe remaining people are living in Laos, Burma, the mountains of China and Northern Thailand, where they belong to the Six main Hill Tribes in Thailand. The Akha's are the poorest group of the Thailand Hill tribes.

They prefer to stay at high altitudes. The villages where they live can be visited by tourists who are on one of the trekking tours in North Thailand. This Hill Tribe group speaks Akha, a language of the Tibeto Burman family. The Akha Hill tribe is related to the Lisu and the Lahu people.

Hill Tribe Akha in North Thailand.

More about the Akha's in Thailand. The Akha Hill tribe are living high in the mountains in bamboo houses. This bamboo huts are separate, one side for the men and one side for the women. This Hill tribe group are experts in farming; corn, soybeans and mountain rice are them favorites to farm at the mountains in the North of Thailand. Also they are very good hunters, and opium growers for a reasonable income. Also the tourism industry is building up by the Akha's in Thailand. Specific Akha villages are Ban Therd Thai (Ban Hin Taek) and Mae Salong (Santikhiri). The Akha's have them own religion, know as animism, a world filled with good and bad spirits, believing in a natural balance, what can easy result in hardship, illness and the death! They are well know for the exotic appearance and extraordinary costumes.

Visit the Akha Hill House in Chiang Rai, North Thailand. Akha Hill House in the Akha village in Thailand. Getting back to the nature at the Akha Hill House Chiang Rai, the only locally managed and owned Hill Tribe retreat in Chiang Rai province in North Thailand.

The Padaung in Thailand. The Long neck Hill tribe people, a subgroup from the Red Karen, the long necked Karen people. The Padaung, a Shan term for the women wear the brass neck coils (Kayan Lahwi). Long necks in Northern Thailand, specially in the Mae Hong Son province.

An ethnic minority tribe group in the North of Thailand with a population around the 50,000 people. The Thai government granted the Padaung a refugee status, the Padaung tribes are only allowed to live in some certain areas in North Thailand. In these areas they set up special tourist villages in North Thailand. The Long Neck Padaung tribe in North Thailand. You find then at the refugee camps at the Burmese border in North Thailand. The Womens of the Padaung tribes making crafts and textiles to sell to the visiting tourists and passing travelers in the North of Thailand.

More about Padaung's in Thailand. The Padaung's Hill tribe people live in villages who allowed by the Thai government. Those villages with the long neck womens brings many tourists. The women wearing these neck coils are also know as "giraffe Women" to the tourists. The traditional religion is called Kan Khwan, it believes that the Padaung hill tribe people a result is between a mal angel hybrid and a female dragon. The Three day's Kay Htein Bo festival is the major religious festival for the Long necks. The Padaung's have a strong believe in augury, reference to some form of divination and consulting chicken bones. All you can see at the 'Cleansing Ceremonies' during the annual festival in the Northern Thailand Padaung villages.

The Lahu people are One of the Six main tribes. An ethnic group of South east Asia. Their population in Thailand is around the 100,000. The Lahu tribe splits them selves in several sub groups as Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu), Lahu Shi (Yellow Lahu), Lahu Na (Black Lahu), Lahu Shehleh and the Lahu Hpu (White Lahu).

Lahu villages are on high altitude in the mountains of the Northern provinces of Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Sorn and Chiang Mai in North Thailand.

The language of the Lahu tribe is part of the Lolo Burmese, a sub group of the Tibeto Burman family. It's a very isolate language with numeral classifiers and they have seven tones. The Lahu tribe people used the Latin Alphabet.

The Traditional religion of the Lahu tribe people is polytheistic. In the late 17th century the Buddhism was introduced. The Lahu's are believe in One spirit and be Animists with an overall control to other people.

Hill Tribe Lahu in North Thailand.

More about Lahu's in Thailand. The Lahu Hill tribe people of Northeastern Thailand had encounters with the Tudong monks (Theravada Buddhist Forest Monks) around the 1940's. The Lahu people love entertainment and the easy way of life, also they are very independent people with a very simple life style. They wear traditional costumes by a Thai shirt and a sarong. The ethnic group produce musical instruments, excellent crossbows and other items of bamboo, rattan and wood. They make the finest baskets you can find in Thailand. More earning living ways are rice farming, vegetables, corn and fruits planting, cows, chickens and raising pigs. The Lahu are pride themselves, on their skills in trapping and hunting. The Thai called the Lahu tribe often "Muser".

The Mlabri in Thailand. The Mlabri also know as the Yellow Leaf People. The Thais called it "Phi Tong Luang". They were rarely seen because they live deep in the jungles of Thailand. The Banana leaves are used for the roof on the shelters of the Mlabri Hill Tribe people. When they get yellow, the Mlabri tribe people used them for their gatherer life style. The Mlabri don't like to be know it as spirits, but the Mlabri like the name "Yellow Leaf People".

The most Mlabri tribe people living in the jungle and there is not to much choice to make a good living for them and to support the way of the Mlabri tribe way of life.

Most of them works as slaves in the fields for other hill tribes in North Thailand for old clothes and daily food. There are a little Mlabri people, about 300 Mlabri tribe people are remaining in the whole wide world.

Hill Tribe Mlabri in Thailand.

More about Mlabri Tribe in Thailand. Around the 160 Mlabri people have found the way to the Ban Boonyuen village in North Thailand and in the Nan and Phrae provinces. At this village they get education, guidance necessary and knowledge. The Mlabri is an ethnic group of Thailand and been called as "the least understood and most interesting hill tribe people in South East Asia. The Mlabri group in Thailand living close to the Northern Thai and the Hmong's. The Mlabri live a very primitive extremely lifestyle. They have no real houses and being nomads. Move from place to place. They have a few social ceremonies, and there be said that they not have a religious system, but they believe in natural features and some spirits of the forests.

A list with foundations for the Hill Tribes in Asia. Foundations Asia Hill Tribe children. Hill Tribe foundations in Asia. Information about the Hill Tribes in Thailand, Asia.

Below a list of Hill Tribe and the Hill Tribe Children Foundations, organizations working for the benefit of ethnic minorities in Thailand and in Asia. Foundations who working directly with Hill Tribe communities at the specific area's in Thailand and Asia.

This Hill Tribes Foundations commands respect from the local communities and the authorities, earns the respect to work hard with running projects at the areas in North Thailand, Asia. We are not responsible for any donations you make or you will make in the future.

Hilltribe Thailand foundations.

Below a list of the Foundations and organizations who works for the ethnic minorities and groups in Thailand, the Hill tribe (Children) Foundations Thailand.

Foundations list Thailand.

The Asia Foundation	The Thai Hill Tribes, work of the "Impect" in Northern Thailand. The Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT), an organization work for the Hill tribes in the North of Thailand.
The Mirror Foundation	The Mirror Foundation, A Thai, Non Governmental Organization. run by the Thai Hill Tribes. Located in Mae Yao district of the Chiang Rai province in Northern Thailand.
The Karen Hill Tribes Trust	A charity who works with the Karen Hill tribe people in Northern Thailand. A UK Registered charity with Thai Foundation based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Akha Heritage	The Akha Heritage Foundation. 20 years working with the Akha hill Tribe group in Thailand.
Akha Association	Charity and Cultural organization for the Akha hill tribe Thailand.

Information about the projects for the Hill Tribes in Thailand and in Asia. Hill Tribe Thailand projects information. Hill Tribes projects in Thailand, Asia. Info about the Hill Tribes projects in Thailand for the Hill Tribe (Children's).

Projects of the Foundations are there for helping the Hill tribe people in The North. Specially for the Children. Most of those projects for this groups are related with education and teaching. Most of the projects with the local Hill Tribes are in the Chiang Rai region and the border areas in the North. Projects to help Hill tribe with issues as drug abuse, culture, erosion and citizenship. Help womens and children at the village's in Thailand. Those projects need your help with donations to the special foundations in the northern parts of Thailand. We are not responsible for any contributions or donations you made or you will make in the future.

Hill Tribe projects in Thailand.

Some more regular Hill tribe projects: The Youth developments program and children education in Thailand for the Hill tribes (school buses, teaching and dormitories). The respect and quality of Life. Conservation and environmental protection. Drug eradication and the alleviation of poverty. Health improving by installing  latrines and clean water systems. Build up regenerating lands and irrigations systems. Also some projects are: Protecting culture, health and food security, repatriating Hill tribe Children and preventing malaria. All this projects are there to help the Hill tribe (Children's) to build a better future. Schools. Some information about the tribe schools in Thailand, school information about the Hill tribe groups in the Northern of Thailand.

Below a list of the tribe schools Thailand. Education for the ethnic groups and minorities in Thailand, the Hill tribe (Children) Schools. The schools for the Hill tribe.

In Thailand's Mae Hong Son province you have the Baan Mae Surin Noi School, an ethnic Karen's school. One of the schools in the North West Thailand, who operated by the Ministry of Education and under the UNICEF project.

More hill tribe education places and hill tribe schools in North Thailand.

Info about the Hill Tribe museum in Thailand. Museum about the Hill Tribes in Chiang Rai. Museum in Chiang Rai, North Thailand about the Hill Tribes. The best place to learn about the Tribal culture in North Thailand. Chiang Rai's only museum about the Hill Tribes. Learn all about the Hill tribes culture in Chiang Rai.

Hilltribe museum and Education Center in Chiang Rai, North Thailand. A public benefit organization To help educate foreign tourists and local Thai people about the Hill tribes culture.

This museum works under the supervision of the Community Development Association. The Tribe museum in Chiang Rai showing the information about the 6,000 years history about the Hill Tribes.

What you can do for the Hill tribes in Thailand. How to support this ethnic group in Thailand, Asia. What you can do for the Children. Support the Hill Tribe in Asia and in Thailand. Help the Hill tribe (Children) Foundations and organizations in Thailand and in Asia.

If you believe in this societies/foundations/organizations that give the Hill tribe (Children's) the great change to do some and be succeed in them Future. All Foundations wants to help the Asia Hill tribes to reach their goals. All have the same missions: A better future for this people and specially for the children's. Help with any contribution in any amount to help any of those Hill Tribe Foundations in Thailand, Asia. For only Ten Dollar a month you can help a child to go school and have every a lunch.

We are not responsible for any contributions or donations you made or you will make in the future.

Hmong Tribe, some Information about the Hmong children in Thailand. The Hmong Hill Tribe Children, only some of them be lucky to find a place in an orphanage. Hmong children in Thailand. The Thailand Hmong children, the children in the Northern parts of Thailand in Asia.

Hmong Children in Thailand. Children from the various tribal people who are living in the mountainous areas of North Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar (Formerly Burma). A Variety of foundations and organizations taken the fate of the Hill Tribe Hmong children in Thailand and other parts of Asia. Trying to help them and hope the Hmong children can make the way in the Thai society. Another goal for some organizations is to raise the Hmong children in the certain life stance or religion.