I asked a Hmong neighbor about the traditional religious

[MineralMan]

4. That's true, but the Hmong religion was based on the life

they lived in another place, really. Life here in the US is much more complicated and much faster moving. In just a couple of generations, the Hmong here in St. Paul have gone from a primitive agrarian culture to full-on US-style urban living. I can't imagine that the old traditional religion will survive here. It's just the wrong environment for it.

By the way, my wife and I are known as the "Crow People." We feed birds, squirrels and other critters in our front yard. We have about three dozen crows who come twice every day to noisily go after the peanuts we provide. I know about our name, because we heard a 5 or 6-year-old boy call to his sister, "Here come the Crow People." They ran out to meet us and our two dogs. We're exotic creatures to them, but friendly ones. I'm sure the grandparent generation gave us that name, and the kids adopted it for us.