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in 1914. There were many other missionaries who brought Christianity to Lisu people. David Fish says, "There were over a hundred missionaries who committed their life for spreading the Gospel among the Lisu people. They came from different denominations and mission; China Inland Mission, Disciples of
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Lisu subsistence was based on paddy fields, mountain rice, fruit and vegetables. However, they have typically lived in ecologically fragile regions that do not easily support subsistence. They also faced constant upheaval from both physical and social disasters (earthquakes and landslides; wars and
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The missionaries promoted education, agriculture, and health care. The missionaries created the Lisu written language and new opportunities. David Fish reports that, "J. Russell Morse brought many kinds of fruit such as Washington, Orange, Ruby, King-Orange, and grapefruit. Fruit cultivation spread
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was originally declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1972, then a National Park in 1983. The authorities demarcated the southern boundary near Gandhigram village. Since then the Lisus settling in the National Park are considered as "encroachers" as per the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. Between 1976 and
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The Lisu tribe consists of more than 58 different clans. Each family clan has its own name or surname. The biggest family clans well known among the tribe clans are Laemae pha, Bya pha, Thorne pha, Ngwa Pha (Ngwazah), Naw pha, Seu pha, Khaw pha. Most of the family names came from their own work as
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The first missionaries in China and Myanmar were Russell Morse and his wife, Gertrude Erma Howe, who became Gertrude Morse after marriage with Russell Morse. The Missionaries of Christian Churches or Church of Christ in Myanmar were Morse families. Their mission record notes that the Morse family
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poppy as a cash crop in the early 19th century, many Lisu populations were able to achieve economic stability. This lasted for over 100 years, but opium production has all but disappeared in Thailand and China due to interdiction of production. Very few Lisu ever used opium, or its more common
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Lisu villages are usually built close to water to provide easy access for washing and drinking. Their homes are usually built on the ground and have dirt floors and bamboo walls, although an increasing number of the more affluent Lisu are now building houses of wood or even concrete.
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Before Christianity was introduced to Lisu people, they were animists. Archibald Rose points that the religion of the Lisus appears to be a simple form of animism or nat-worship, sacrifices being offered to the spirits of the mountains. Most important rituals are performed by
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In the early 1980s, the Lisu people living in India did not have Indian citizenship as they were considered refugees from Myanmar. In 1994, Indian citizenship was granted to them, but not Scheduled Tribe status. This is currently the subject of a claim to the Government.
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and is celebrated with music, feasting and drinking, as are weddings; people wear large amounts of silver jewelry and wear their best clothes at these times as a means of displaying their success in the previous agricultural year. In each traditional village there is a
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but proved difficult to maintain due to extreme rainfall and frequent landslides. It was also felt that a road would further facilitate wildlife poaching and land encroachment in the National Park. Renovation of the MV road was announced in 2010 and 2013.
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from Putao to other parts of Myanmar and become an important national asset. He also trained the people the art of carpentry and the construction of buildings. And the Lisu people had also learned the strategy of Church planting from them."
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Christ (Church of Christ), Assembly of God, Pentecostal Churches, and so on. The Lisu people accepted those missionaries and their teaching the Gospel so that they converted into Christianity quickly to be followers of Christ.
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The Thai Lisu traditional costume shown here is much different from the main Lisu traditional costume being widely used in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China and Putao, Danai, Myitkyina, Northern Myanmar.
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Except for the arrival of a fleet of jeeps in the late 1970s, the area has been without roads and vehicles for 4 decades. The area is isolated, hence some describing the people as "prisoners of geography".
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Only a small portion of Lisu are able to read or write the script, with most learning to read and write their local language (Chinese, Thai, Burmese) through primary education.
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officially recognized by China. In Myanmar, the Lisu are recognized as one of 135 ethnic groups and an estimated population of 600,000. Lisu live in the north of the country;
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As of 2008, there were more than 700,000 Christian Lisu in Yunnan, and 450,000 in Myanmar (Burma). Only the Lisu of Thailand have remained unchanged by Christian influences.
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1981, a 157-kilometre (98 mi) road was made between Miao and Vijoynagar (MV road) by the Public Works Department following the left bank of the Noa-dihing river through
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Gros, Stephane, 1996. "Terres de confins, terres de colonisation: essay sur les marches Sino-Tibetaines due Yunnan a travers l'implantation de la Mission du Tibet",
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governments). Therefore, they have typically been dependent on trade for survival. This included work as porters and caravan guards. With the introduction of the
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Fox, Krummel, Yarnasarn, Ekasingh, and Podger, 1995. "Land use and landscape dynamics in northern Thailand: assessing change in three upland watersheds",
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Lisu history is passed from one generation to the next in the form of songs. Today, these songs are so long that they can take an entire night to sing.
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mountainsides. Under these conditions, Lisu and other swiddeners have been forced to turn to new methods of agriculture to sustain themselves.
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There are two scripts in use. The Chinese Department of Minorities publishes literature in both. The oldest and most widely used one is the
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started their mission in China in 1926 but, due to political unrest, they traveled to Burma and began teaching among Lisu tribe in 1930.
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The missionaries studied Lisu culture so they could rapidly spread Christianity. They used various kind of methods, including teaching
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The Lisu people's conversion to Christianity was relatively fast. Many Lisu and Rawang converted to Christianity from animism. Before
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in 1936. In 1992, the Chinese government officially recognized the Fraser alphabet as the official script of the Lisu language.
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hunters in the primitive time. However, later, they adopted many Chinese family names. Their culture has traits shared with the
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The Chinese government's Religious Affairs Bureau has proposed considering Christianity as the official religion of the Lisu.
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even before present Tibetans arrived in the plateau. Research done by Lisu scholars indicates that they moved to northwestern
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at the top of the village, where the sky spirit or, in China, the Old Grandfather Spirit, are propitiated with
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Transformations of Lisu social structure under opium control and watershed conservation in northern Thailand
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Fraser's script for the Lisu language was used to prepare the first published works in Lisu which were a
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Fox, Jefferson M., 2000. "How blaming 'slash and burn' farmers is deforesting mainland Southeast Asia",
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Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand: The Waning of Elephant and Dog Repute
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evangelist Ba Thaw. The second script was developed by the Chinese government and is based on
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E. Paul Durrenberger, Northern Illinois University Southeast Asia Publications No. 12, 1989.
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Archibald Rose and J. Goggin Brown, Lisu (Yawyin), Tribes of the Burma-China Frontier in
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Initially, the Indo-Burmese border had been drawn based on surveys conducted under the
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Beginning in the early-20th century, many Lisu people in India and Burma converted to
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are Tibetan–Burman languages, distantly related to Burmese and Tibetan. After the
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Thousands of Ethnic Lisu Protest Killings by Myanmar’s Kachin Independence Army
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Since the 2010s, many Lisu clashed with the Kachin over allegations of the
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Lisu Ethnic Individuals in Kachin State Recruited as New Militia Members
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of northeastern Myanmar. There are about 5,000 Lisu people in India.
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forcefully conscripting them and killing civilians. During the
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A Burmese depiction of the Lisu people in the early 1900s
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The Lisu traditionally lived in the 6089: 5796: 4906: 3659: 3373: 2202: 2091:, Kuhn, Isobel Shaw Books (June 1994) 2063:James Fraser and the King of the Lisu 1995:McCaskill, Don and Ken Kampe, 1997. 1934:Journal of the Burma Research Society 1497:Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies 1131: 816:Topographical Survey of British India 589:, where they are one of the six main 405: 2189:The Lisu of China, OMF International 2131:Fish Four and the Lisu New Testament 2101:Precious Things of the Lasting Hills 2006:, reprinted by AMS Press (New York). 676:plain for thousands of years. Lisu, 624: 86:Regions with significant populations 3349:Unrecognized ethnic groups in China 1035:Linguistically, Lisu belong to the 450:who inhabit mountainous regions of 13: 2010: 1992:, E.J. Brill, New York and Leiden. 1495:John McCoy, Timothy Light (1986). 1132:Ernst, Gabriel (21 October 2019). 1001:Animism/shamanism/ancestor worship 501:, China. The Lisu form one of the 14: 6648: 4894:List of Scheduled Tribes in India 2167: 2115:, Kuhn, Isobel Moody Press (1964) 1983:Yale Southeast Studies Monographs 1737:Christian History & Biography 1470:"A profile of Changlang District" 1418:Tyson Geoffrey (17 August 2018). 1295:. Emily Fishbein. July 11, 2019. 668:. They inhabited a region across 3354:Immigrant ethnic groups in China 1867:Bradley, David (November 1999). 1779:OMF International (2007), p. 1-2 762:Lisu people in India are called 757: 628: 585:). Approximately 55,000 live in 137: 125: 113: 92: 67: 62: 56: 51: 2103:, Kuhn, Isobel OMF Books (1977) 2097:, Kuhn, Isobel OMF Books (2000) 1988:Hutheesing, Otome Klein, 1990. 1831: 1822: 1813: 1804: 1795: 1782: 1773: 1743: 1728: 1719: 1706: 1693: 1680: 1667: 1664:, (75 Jubilee Press, 2008), 11. 1655: 1630: 1621: 1612: 1603: 1594: 1567: 1538: 1513: 1488: 1462: 1437: 1411: 1400: 1377: 1354: 1331: 1308: 1286: 1273: 1264: 1255: 1246: 933: 748:Lisu National Development Party 3687:Hill tribes of Northeast India 3632:(Not recognised by government) 2155:Peoples of the Golden Triangle 1999:. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. 1317:. May 22, 2017. Kyaw Myo Min. 1270:Scott & Hardiman 1900–1901 1213: 1204: 1195: 1186: 1100: 956:and her husband, John, of the 770:of India. They live mainly in 429: 309: 279: 1: 2143:Handbook of the Lisu Language 2029:The economy of a Lisu village 1093: 1087:The Art of Not Being Governed 1023:; each house has an ancestor 2174:The Virtual Hilltribe Museum 1936:11 (Part 2), pp. 70–74. 1281:လီဆူတိုင်းရင်းသားတို့၏ဘဝဓလေ့ 810:Government discovery of Lisu 722:A Lisu woman at a market in 7: 6617:Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh 3401:Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh 1688:A Church History in Yangon, 1325:September 16, 2023, at the 1079: 1030: 928: 854:Political and social issues 473:About 730,000 Lisu live in 10: 6653: 3784: 3432:(Recognised by government) 2075:& Mary Eleanor Allbutt 1911:Dessaint, Alain Y, 1972. 1860: 1420:"Forgotten Frontier(1945)" 1348:November 28, 2023, at the 1027:at the back of the house. 937: 879: 733: 620: 604: 392: 32: 6627:Ethnic groups in Thailand 6528: 6498: 6451: 6355: 6328: 6296: 6264: 6242: 6215: 6183: 6141: 6080: 6024: 5992: 5834: 5715: 5546: 5494: 5478: 5429: 5145: 5086: 5030: 4951: 4940: 4890: 4675: 4531: 4491: 4398: 4297: 4139: 3947: 3841: 3803: 3693: 3628: 3428: 3407: 3344: 3304: 3239: 3185: 3086: 3031: 2913: 2687: 2641: 2611: 2540: 2492: 2460: 2423: 2319: 2258: 2249: 2236: 2053:by Eileen Fraser Crossman 1701:Exodus To A Hidden Valley 1499:. BRILL. pp. 915–6. 838:Arrival via the Ledo Road 601:or Nuosu (Lolo) culture. 565:), and Sagaing Division ( 438: 415: 401: 354: 347: 340: 335: 325: 320: 302: 295: 290: 286: 272: 267: 263: 258: 216: 211: 196: 191: 160: 155: 90: 85: 80: 75: 50: 42: 37: 29: 6637:Ethnic groups in Myanmar 4934:Ethnic groups in Myanmar 3324:Local ethnic nationalism 2243:recognized ethnic groups 2145:, James O. Fraser (1922) 2057:A Memoir of J. O. Fraser 1888:Southern Lisu Dictionary 1627:McCaskill and Kempe 1997 1521:"Prisoners of geography" 1449:Arunachalgovernor.gov.in 1365:Burma News International 1046:developed about 1920 by 5053:Ka-Yun (Kayan; Padaung) 4595:Khawathlang, Khothalong 2045:Mary Geraldine Guinness 2043:by Mrs. Howard Taylor ( 1985:, Volume 51, New Haven. 1886:Bradley, David (2008). 1243:Hanks & Hanks, 2001 948:. Missionaries such as 3797: 3359:Historic ethnic groups 2230:Ethnic groups in China 2137:Honey Two of Lisu-land 1869:Hill Tribes Phrasebook 1394:March 8, 2024, at the 1371:March 8, 2024, at the 1302:March 9, 2024, at the 1112:Chine-informations.com 873:Namdapha National Park 730: 614: 363:This article contains 5716:Unrecognised / Others 4437:Khasi Synteng or Pnar 3885:Khasi Synteng or Pnar 3790: 2113:Nests Above the Abyss 1819:Klein-Hutheesing 1990 1810:Bradley (1999), p. 89 938:Further information: 721: 612: 212:Related ethnic groups 178:Southwestern Mandarin 4585:Hrangkhwal, Rangkhol 4463:Mizo (Lushai) tribes 4224:Mizo (Lushai) tribes 3916:Mizo (Lushai) tribes 3758:Mizo (Lushai) tribes 2059:by Mrs. J. O. Fraser 1927:American Ethnologist 1367:. 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Fraser 2013: 2011:Further reading 1971:33(2): 147–211. 1962:Burma Gazetteer 1898: 1879: 1863: 1858: 1857: 1847: 1845: 1843:Fraser alphabet 1837: 1836: 1832: 1827: 1823: 1818: 1814: 1809: 1805: 1800: 1796: 1787: 1783: 1778: 1774: 1764: 1762: 1751:"Lisu of China" 1749: 1748: 1744: 1733: 1729: 1725:Fish, David 23. 1724: 1720: 1711: 1707: 1698: 1694: 1685: 1681: 1672: 1668: 1660: 1656: 1646: 1644: 1636: 1635: 1631: 1626: 1622: 1618:Fox et al. 1995 1617: 1613: 1608: 1604: 1599: 1595: 1585: 1583: 1573: 1572: 1568: 1558: 1556: 1548: 1544: 1543: 1539: 1529: 1527: 1519: 1518: 1514: 1507: 1493: 1489: 1479: 1477: 1468: 1467: 1463: 1453: 1451: 1443: 1442: 1438: 1428: 1426: 1416: 1412: 1405: 1401: 1396:Wayback Machine 1382: 1378: 1373:Wayback Machine 1359: 1355: 1350:Wayback Machine 1336: 1332: 1327:Wayback Machine 1319:Radio Free Asia 1313: 1309: 1304:Wayback Machine 1291: 1287: 1278: 1274: 1269: 1265: 1260: 1256: 1251: 1247: 1242: 1235: 1230: 1223: 1218: 1214: 1209: 1205: 1200: 1196: 1191: 1187: 1177: 1175: 1162: 1161: 1152: 1142: 1140: 1130: 1126: 1116: 1114: 1106: 1105: 1101: 1096: 1082: 1050:and the ethnic 1048:James O. 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