![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](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3o5tojRRj1qijkxuo1_1280.jpg)
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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Burmese ethnic Karen children prepare fishing lines at a man made lake in the center of a Indianapolis, IN, housing development.
- Approximately 7,000 refugees from Burma reside in Indianapolis and the projected population is expected to rise in the next few years, according to the Burmese American Community Institute in Indiana.
Photographed March 26, 2012
photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller
