A Burmese/Myanmar refugee man of Karen ethnicity with his two children on Father’s Day in Indianapolis, Indiana. Photographed June 17, 2012 photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

A Burmese/Myanmar refugee man of Karen ethnicity with his two children on Father’s Day in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Photographed June 17, 2012
photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller
Jun 18 2012
A male Karen Burmese teen sits on a soccer pitch in Indianapolis, Indiana,  displaying his unfinished tattoos and wearing Thanaka face cream.  The face cream is made from the bark of Thanaka trees and has been used mostly by women and children in Burma/Myanmar for hundreds of years primarily as a sun screen, also some of the male teens in the United States have been wearing the cream as a cultural flag.  Photographed April 6, 2012 photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

A male Karen Burmese teen sits on a soccer pitch in Indianapolis, Indiana,  displaying his unfinished tattoos and wearing Thanaka face cream.  The face cream is made from the bark of Thanaka trees and has been used mostly by women and children in Burma/Myanmar for hundreds of years primarily as a sun screen, also some of the male teens in the United States have been wearing the cream as a cultural flag. 

Photographed April 6, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

Jun 7 2012 1 note
Fingernails painted, a young girl plays with mud at a community garden for Karen and Karenni refugee families who have resettled in Indianapolis, Indiana. The two Burma/Myanmar ethnic groups possess little to no English language skills upon arrival to the United States.  Most of which come after living in Thailand refugee camps with merely a primary school education, but some are able to speak two to three other languages of neighboring ethnic cultures within and near their homeland.  Photographed May 26, 2012 photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

Fingernails painted, a young girl plays with mud at a community garden for Karen and Karenni refugee families who have resettled in Indianapolis, Indiana. The two Burma/Myanmar ethnic groups possess little to no English language skills upon arrival to the United States.  Most of which come after living in Thailand refugee camps with merely a primary school education, but some are able to speak two to three other languages of neighboring ethnic cultures within and near their homeland. 

Photographed May 26, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

May 27 2012 1 note
She’s It - A variation of the game Hide and Seek is played and obviously enjoyed by children whose parents and families are refugees from Burma [Myanmar] via Thailand that have resettled in Indianapolis, IN.  In 1992 persecuted ethnic populations within the military control government began to flee the country across the border to neighboring & regional nations.  Since then, just in the United States the numbers have increased and, according to 2010 United States Census more then one hundred thousand persons of Burmese descent seeking protection from the government of their homeland have resettled across the United States. Photographed May 6, 2012 photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

She’s It - A variation of the game Hide and Seek is played and obviously enjoyed by children whose parents and families are refugees from Burma [Myanmar] via Thailand that have resettled in Indianapolis, IN.  In 1992 persecuted ethnic populations within the military control government began to flee the country across the border to neighboring & regional nations.  Since then, just in the United States the numbers have increased and, according to 2010 United States Census more then one hundred thousand persons of Burmese descent seeking protection from the government of their homeland have resettled across the United States.

Photographed May 6, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

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May 7 2012