The Akha Chronicles Notes

 

Names for Book

Maesai, Villages, Predators, Hope

Voices at the Bridge

An Akha Story

Maesai:

Tales, Fables, Lies and Legends of the Golden Triangle

Dreaming of Extinction

Crushing all things Akha

Endless Flight

Akha Chronicles

 

For Title Page:

Matthew McDaniel

Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand

Copyright 2004

 

1. The story that I want out there.

How I ended up in Maesai

How I got started, and the similarities of that with the Mex. experience and Indians

The difficulty of hanging on

Finding problems, perceiving solutions

Traveling up into the mountains and into the culture

A discription of the culture of the people

What the people have to offer

A dream I had of books and  never giving up that dream

 

2. Organized in the way I wish, Point and direction

My first trips to the villages, and what that was like.

I have been here many years, and written many details down.  Sometimes it was curious and humorous, and so forth, but with time I kept asking myself what the story was.

 

3. Main Issues The Akha Face

Maesai Bridge, why, the ourglass, the convergence and exchange of two lands?  All has to pass there.

 

War --

Village Burnings --

Village Raids

Border Shootings

Drugs and Poverty, economic access

Prostitution

Identity Cards

Tourism then and now

Missionaries and Monks

Missions, freedom for Akhas, freedom from other’s religion

Missions, the cause of village splits and strife

 

Forestry and Land Problems

The Army and Forestry Enforcement

Forestry and Pine

Shifting Land Theft and existing Forests

Land Rights

Traditional relationship to the forest and land and each other

Village Leadership

Village Economics

Cross Border Family Ties, Ethnic Ties and Business

Relocated Villages, A Question of Survival

Agricultural Work Sharing

Access To Justice Or Representation

Everyone of different race working to maintain their identity. 

Some seeking to hide, cover or increase the size of their identity covertly.

The taking over of people and villages.

 

Sources

1-4 journals for Akha related sections, or what could be included.

Pics list

Character list

Pics to use in book

E-journals off web

Road Journal 1

Road Journal 2

As well as other last journals

Web site content

Press reports, Bangkok post, ID cards, Killers, army and Meeh Chooh from San Chai

How the press portrays the Akha, while TOT takes big bucks

Videos: The Akha Way, my bulk video or video making ideas as to what would be useful.

Italy 1, 2

Israel, Singapore, etc.

Ellen's video

How people see me

Huai Knott

Prisons and Akha

Real Events Booklet

Is Christianity fascism?

FOIA filings. DEA and Chiang Khong sitings

Sketches of intersting people, Gneeh Pah Meeh Cheh, Ah Baw Peeh, MAKE A LIST

Police and Army stories

The Women I knew, personalities, events, what happened, money issues, failing to note the flow, red flags.  Failing to go with the flow, A common day to day error.

Paul Hunt

The Eilat Scotsman

Call Young again: "Are you saying t hat the CIA wasn't involved in the drug trade?"

The US: Is it silent on Thailand human rights abuses?

UN case filing, comments

Taiwanese and drugs, churches in the hills

Joh Hoh Akha

Hospital and clinic stories

Prison and Jails: Maesai, Chiangrai, Chiangmai, Bkk and others.

18 year old from Lah Lurh Akha ends up in Maesai jail over 600 pills. A boy of 23 from Cheh Pah Kah also. They went to job site, then to Maesai, then to jail. What were they thinking? A life ruined over this?

Cloth deaths in prison.

Missions: Owning someone else's children.

Brothels

Scarface

Meh Joh incident, get pics

The unexplainable holes in the drug war

Jefferson and Paine quotes

Leo

Beyond the residential schools.  Playing games with lives

Chapter on Akha Theology, pull out that folder where ever it is

Nick's black truck

Jeff Clair

Man kills someone at Nicks village, steps on throat

oil painting, hawaii guy, my oils sit in the box

Akha Heritage Foundation sign

 

An Akha List

agriculture, green houses and seeds

A bad part of it?

a nutritional evaluation in an akha village

a survey of sterilized women

a word equivalent to jamboree

academic track and program with scholarships

advanced schooling for kids

akha book collection

akha books

Akha books that exist list here

Akha Cultural Traditions

akha dictioinary

akha grammar

akha health

akha health book: atlas of human anatomy isbn paper back 0-914168-19-3  frank h. netter

Akha Identity Card System

akha natioinal geographic

akha need public relations campaign

akha newspaper

akha old testament

akha zauh book

art program

article in oregonian

Eugene register guard

port royal society

quick strike capability

 

 

 

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Have a comment or question? Like to know more? Send me an email at akha@akha.org
Copyright 2004, by Matthew McDaniel

 

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Have a comment or question? Like to know more? Send me an email at akha@akha.org
Copyright 2004, by Matthew McDaniel